Today, Thursday, woke to a fine sunny day on Brighton Beach (at the Novotel) and enjoyed a cooked breakfast overlooking the glassy waters of Botany Bay as kayakers cruised along the water's edge and mothers with young children played on the beach and in the shallows. Realising I'd left a couple of fairly important cable connectors behind I decided to make a trip into the city to Paddy's Market to get one for my phone so I can download photos (I hope) that I intend to post on this blog as I travel. Also a shirt, as I forgot to open my wardrobe before I left and failed to pack several light shirts I intended to bring with me and found I only had two. A stop at Mascot en route to the city (prompted by the sighting of a Vinnies store and the hope of a $3 shirt or two) proved fruitless and an impromptu visit to a dental surgery there equally fruitless as one of the two dentists was away and the other snowed under (the broken tooth may have to wait until I get to Chile).
In the city I spotted the Capitol Theatre near Paddy's and checked out the shows - Mama Mia playing there and The Book of Mormon playing at the Lyric. The Lyric hold a draw for tickets to that night's show every afternoon between 5:30pm and 6pm - you put your name in the box and if it's drawn out at 6pm you get a ticket in the front row for $40 - usually at least twice that price. A sizeable crowd was present for the draw and despite 20 seats being up for grabs I was unlucky (thought I might get the last seat, as usual). So, it was back to my hotel by shanks pony, train, bus and courtesy bus from the RSL (after the meal special which was fish and chips at $14 again). The end of a fairly uneventful day.
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