2. The toilets. Most of them are communal so when you walk in you have to hide your shock at seeing a full frontal man at the urinal as you walk past to the cubicles. Not pleasant.
3. The fashion sense. I have said this before but it's just so weird. You get two complete extremes! People are either really amazingly fashionable or completely tragically challenged in that department wearing beige trainers, Eastpak rucksacks and ankle swingers. TRES BIZARRE.
4. Sundays are literally days of rest. Absolutely nothing is open apart from fast food places and the odd tabac if you are lucky. Thus when you have a disgusting hangover and all you want in life is to munch on a bar of chocolate it is just not possible.
5. Opening hours in general. The restaurants, banks, offices, shops etc can just pick and choose when they want to open. You can't get any food between 2-7pm, if you want anything on a saturday you need to get up at obscene o'clock and trying to get any letters signed etc is completely impossible.
6. No taxis. The trams are really reliable until 12.30 at night Sunday-Friday and 2.30 on a Saturday. however after the last tram there is no other way of getting home and taxi companies just don't generally answer. It's not ideal.
7. They don't have baked beans. Their Diet Coke tastes really weird as does their chocolate. You can't buy chocolate in bars or single packets of crisps, they only buy in bulk. You can't get naan breads or poppadoms and the curries in restaurants are just vile.
8. All the students actually go to all their lessons and they run from 8am until 7pm. Not natural.
To be continued...
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