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

As far afield as Bristol ('ello my lover) in recent weeks. Back in Oxford now though.

Glad you're back home, you globe-trotter.

I admit that Oxford to Bristol and back doesn't really compare with other adventures like Japan to Sri Lanka by way of Italy and Kyrgyzstan, but it makes it a lot easier to get to the pictures.

I'm imagining a cinema in Kyrgyzstan.

Well, obviously, they're not *that* dissimilar, except there's a bit more use of DVD projectors and any idea of a certification system can go hang...

I remember cinemas in Romania. Old copies of films, with two sets of subtitles, one running along the side, because it was in an Asian script...

They used to occasionally be down the side on films showing in Japan - more usually with art house films, as I recall. No idea why that should be.

You got me, I can't read Japanese. Maybe they just found it more convenient?

Hey, that would be more natural for them, wouldn't it? Good thinking that man.