Things we learned from a week in the U.K.

[texwifeinct]

This is what I am dying to know:

Do they still charge you for using public restrooms?

Do they now give you enough ice with your soda at the local McDonalds?

Yes

No

[ukmonkey]

This is what I am dying to know:

Do they still charge you for using public restrooms?

Do they now give you enough ice with your soda at the local McDonalds?

1. Some places do, but toilets in pubs/bars/restaurants don't (though I appreciate that they're not really "public" and only for the customers of those places).

2. No idea about what you'd class as "enough". I'm assuming your "enough" is my "far too much". :)




Anymore questions? Happy to help where I can (I live in the UK, if you didn't guess...)

[thl]

I enjoyed your posts! I went for two weeks in college, and would love, love, love to go back. Maybe one day with my boys . . .

I was a very picky eater when I went, also, but I remember the pub food being quite good!

[faeryedark]

I enjoyed your posts! I went for two weeks in college, and would love, love, love to go back. Maybe one day with my boys . . .

I was a very picky eater when I went, also, but I remember the pub food being quite good!

I was in Scotland for foreign exchange (when I was 17) for 3 months in 1990. I so want to go back....ahhh...someday when I can runaway

[diva_dynamite]

This is what I am dying to know:

Do they still charge you for using public restrooms?

Do they now give you enough ice with your soda at the local McDonalds?

1. YES -- as we discovered with our (then) 6 year old at Paddington Station when we first came in from the airport, didn't have any British coins yet, and he really had to go (poor little guy)... But, come to think of it, I don't think we had to pay anyplace else. Other train stations & public markets, museums, etc. were free.

2. That one I don't know about because we got a milkshake at McD's. That was to make up for the absolutely awful shake we had at the 'best' ice cream shop in Oxford: warm foamy milk with so little ice cream or flavoring in it that we couldn't tell the strawberry from the banana, and could only tell which one was chocolate because it was a little darker than the rest. We never did find out if that's a 'usual' British version of a milkshake, or if we just hit them on an 'off' day.