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

This looks good

Yep, that's it.

plastic baggies -> bags

package of crisps -> packet (although this is a little misleading, because you can buy small, individual bags for one person, and big bags for groups of people).

"the process of acquainting yourself with somewhere new a will be painless, and even enjoyable."

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"new will be..."

Interesting entry; some good tips there. Thanks.

Thanks, Elentari. Changes made!

I hope to get around to adding some links to this tomorrow, since it's only got the one so far...

In the navigation section, maybe add a reference to Dirk Gently's method: follow someone who looks as if he/she knows where they're going.

It has actually worked out amazingly well for me - if I pick someone heading in the general direction of what I'm looking for, it usually works just fine.

And if the person turns out to be heading somewhere else, I'll still end up somewhere interesting!

good idea, especially if you're just exploring!

Added that, and a lot of links

Entry: Exploring A Strange City - A36680943

It's looking very good to me. Nothing I can think of to add or tweak ...

Thanks. I'd considered adding a section on navigating once inside a building, but that might be going too far...

That could be an entirely separate sort of entry, depending on the building. Medical facilities? You need a GPS. Major corporation, you need a suit and tie and very important looking brief-case. National defence headquarters, an ability to keep a straight face, reguardless of what over-educated and over-paid air-heads you meet. Home-repair centre, ... a bottomless wallet.

I meant more general things, like looking at the fire escape plan, but sure...

Ah, right. Where's the lifts, the buffet, the wet-bar. The vital concerns for transients. The laundry facility.

That might make a good collaborative one.

21 years of uniform time, 10 years a contracted guy, and in the thick (again) of travels, I'd certainly have some Canuck, (and a bit of US'ian) input to offer.

Ye gawds, at another quick perusal, I just realized what your entry is missing. Something that saved my hide (and Milady) from serious embarassment a number of times last autumn. We visited hootoo friends in north and south England, Wales and Ireland, to celebrate our 20th anniversary. And what proved better than any assortment of guide books, travel agent suggestions, and what-ever?

Precede any foreign travels by at least a couple of years of conversations and friendships on h2g2. LEARN the lives and worlds of the place you might visit. Needing to go to a bar for dinner or drinks is not common here, but there? Day-to-day slang and terms, ... lifts, tubes, quid, loo. All learned from casual research here.

Great suggestion, rev!

Another option is to visit travel-related sites with forums and ask around for people who have visited the place you're going to, and ask them for advice.

Of course, h2g2 *is* travel-related - and all other stuff-related

A specific f'rinstance: We enjoyed a B&B in Essex for a few nights, it being attached to a pub. Our first supper there was after a full day of sight-seeing in London, ended by the mayhem preceding a tube work-action and stoppage. At the pub, I got us a pair of well loaded burgers and chips. Milady looked at these odd tubes of stuff in a glass, packaged so differently from our flat'ish packets of relish, mustard, sugar, what-ever. She asked what "red-sauce" and "brown-sauce" were. Time here had educated me to know that they were essentially ketchup and HP Sauce.

Great! I'll try to work that in.

Added a final paragraph to that effect.