Now there is a guide that lets you quickly spot on a map the location of the nearest sanisette (free public toilet). So you don't need, to rush in a cafe and spend your money!
Kitsch … you either love it or hate it. But in New Zealand, where so many bars are basic at best, the sensual overload that is the Wunderbar (in Lyttelton, of all places) is very welcome. It is also very, very kitsch. The funky front lounge is swathed in purple velvet, the pool table with red velvet, the bar is lined with bamboo and the “elusive” toilets – if you can find them – papered with 1950’s adverts. Wunderbar’s location – behind a supermarket – says it all: a corner of weird surrounded by banal.
Address: 19 London Street, Lyttelton.
Telephone: (64-3) 3288818
Website: www.wunderbar.co.nz
These loos are spotless and spacious if you have luggage or shopping. The attendant is a charming Philippino lady who is so kind and helpful and speaks several languages.
In the subway leading from the city centre to the Santa Maria Novella Railway Station - on the left-hand side next to a record shop.
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