h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a great entry, one of the best I've read for a while. You really get the sense of the Metro system.

Quick things:

Subheaders should be headers
Typo: "See if the(y) can stay upright"

Oh yes, a great entry. Took me right back to my last trip on the Metro, which was sometime in 1982!

Thank you both very much. Shame I couldn't include scratch n sniff for you too, Sho.

Ah... really not needed, honestly, it took me right back, I'm all nostalgic.
When I get home I'm going into the cellar room to look at all the lovely Soviet Era posters (including a lifesize 3 parter of Lenin) and I'm going to drink fizzy water with pear juice, eat some vanilla icecream and transport myself back to student days ... maybe I'll even get the old girl from across the road to swat my legs with her broom as I walk up the stairs she just swept)

When are you doing an article on trolley busses?

Lovely comments and thanks for the corrections - I've just fixed them.

Consider your legs swatted, Sho. I don't know that anyone could do real justice to the glory of the trolleybusses though. Mind you, they've got these georgeously brown trams now. Brown inside and out and even the windows...

Actually, I'm not sure about this bit:

"1.30 (the last train leaves the first station at each end of each line)"

Shouldn't it be:

"1.30pm (when the last train leaves the first station at each end of each line)"

Or am I just being overly pedantic?

Ouch.
Spasibo (don't know how to write Russian with this keyboard)

I just used to love the way you'd be stood on a trolleybus and all of a sudden you'd be face down in someone's lap as it swerved to the side of the road to a stop. Ah, nostalgia.

I've still got my map of the Moscow metro, a freebie, from 1982, I really should dig it out sometime. No ads, just exhortions to us to work to achieve world peace!

Oh cool! Now we not only have ads but they've just produced one with Latin script, which I feel is a bit over achieving...

I remember sitting in a park in Leningrad (as it was) outside one of the duty free shops (how do you spell that, bereozhka??) looking at a sign that proclaimed grandly, ah, you see... I can't do it except for phonetically (badly) so bear with me:

miru mir!

So, we could never work out which mir meant world and which meant peace, or if it was something else, and then it was a dative.... and all that did my head in so much that I absentmindedly accepted a Russian cigarette off someone....

Which has nothing to do with the Moscow Metro. So I'll push off now.

Great entry, Solnushka. As I've said before, don't leave it so long till your next one.

You smoked a Russian ciggarette?

*backs slowly away from the madwoman...*

Cheers Belshazzar

Yes. Only the one.
Still coughing, and that was 20 years ago!