re: Toilets
There are public toilets you have to pay to use here in the UK as well. St Pancras station has them in london, as does Birmingham.
There are free ones around ( like there are in France ) but in the busiest areas, you pay.
But of course, you wouldnt want to use that as an inferred insult to the UK, because we're your friends and go to war with you when George snaps his fingers.
Doug