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Spending a penny…or 50!
Went to London to see the Lord -Adonis, of course -and made the mistake of getting off the train without having a wee first.
No worries, I thought, there’s always the first class lounge (having paid a fortune to travel first class, you have to make fullest use of the facilities.
But the lounge at Euston is closed for refurbishment. You can use either the Sloe bar or the Britannia Inn. They give you a little raffle ticket which you can exchange for a free cup of coffee but both looked full so I went in search of the gents.
30p, Network Rail charges at its major stations - the biggest scandal of the modern age - so I decided to wait. I caught the tube to St James Park and wandered out looking for Marsham Street. On the way, I happened across Westminster Abbey. There is a public covenience juts outsde the Abbey