You want to try the asiatic style loos where you squat with one foot either side (there's often a sort of drawing of where to put your feet) of a shallow sort of basin in the floor.

When I was working in France with some other colleagues, we used to drink in a cafe which was frequented by squaddies and ladies who purveyed "horizontal refreshment". We only used it because in Ramboulet, like many non-tourist towns in France there was nothing else open after 10pm. The loo downstairs was unisex and had an asiatic pan and a "beware of low flying limbo dancers" type door. When one of us Brits headed for the loo, the "ladies" thought it great fun to dash there ahead and give us a full display, below the level of the door. They never seemed to give up, even though none of us ever showed embarassment - although even the most interesting female pudenda is rather wasted on one when you're dying for a pee !

What's the difference between a barrow boy and a dachshund ?
- the barrow boy bawls out his wares on the pavement . . . .