On the opposite side of the road was the girls' school, which had its own 
playing field of equal size, except that this one was surrounded by a dense 
twelve-foot hedge so that the girls could run around in very little or 
skin-tight clothing without giving rise to etiquette problems.
He hadn't slept well in his microberth and wouldn't have minded checking into 
the guest hostel and taking a nap, but it was only eleven in the morning and he 
couldn't see wasting the day. So he rode his velocipede to the center of town, 
stopped in at the first pub he saw, and had lunch. The bartender gave him 
directions to the Royal Post Office, which was just a few blocks away.