Lines and Loos

8am and in line for standby tickets to the ballet in Covent Gdn. One of the main reasons I choose to live in Adelaide is that there are rarely lineups- for anything.

The trade off is that we are a less crazy state, and, we get less of the big shows (because no-one is prepared to line up).

I have not lined up as much in my life as much as we have lined up in NY esp, and now London. Even for Starbucks you need to line up 10 mins for a toilet in NYC.

Speaking of toilets, the one thing they don't tell you in Lonely Planet is how the facilities differ from place to place.

Planes: little water, tiny, suck like a garbage disposal.
NYC: massive toilet bowl, they are prefilled with water 2 inches from where you sit and suck like a 747. You can flush anything down these bad boys- like a desktop computer. They also all flush automatically when you stand up and walk away. Freaky.
London: small like Aussie, don't flush well, low ceilings and sometimes under the stairs. Watch your head on the way out. Would struggle to flush an iPhone.

2 hours in line was worth it, have never been so happy to pay for tickets. Romeo and Juliet ballet tonight- a sellout at the Royal Opera on its last night.

T.

Ps- Cat, great stationery. Renos at Covent Gdn too, but the ballet crowd is less pushy, although one old lady was trying to con us in to buying standing tickets so that she had a shot down the line.