You don't have this problem anywhere, just France. Then, you try and get lunch, but no, the first restaurants shut as Julien has gone for lunch (that's genuinely happened to me twice)
the next ones closing (as they're going home for lunch) happened 3 times, the next ones shut because they cant be bothered to open as theres so many of you, and so on until you once again have your only mcdonalds of the year ( we had to do it almost every year at Le Mans) in France, home of supposedly great food.
I shall leave England with a full belly, aware that I will be surviving on cold cheese and jam for breakfast and undercooked steak and chips for 3 days (unless they can finally surprise me with the supposedly great food they create out there).
Martin S
ps I should state that I lived there for a year and a half and have done over 20 track days in the land of the devil, so this isn't based on ignorance Lol