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

On April 1, 1978, while on a High School trip to England and France, I saw A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford and I am now 99% sure that the mostly bald man with the flowing locks who played Oberon that evening was none other than the now recently knighted Sir Patrick Stewart: http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6949/patrickstewartoberonsn5.jpg



Here's the production history from the RSC: http://www.rscshakespeare.co.uk/midSummerNightsDream.html


I found my ticket this evening! The actual ticket! It cost £2!


Isn't it funny whose paths cross ours without any notice being taken at the time?

look him up in his dodgy wig in the tv series i claudius

seen it already.

I couldn't believe it when I found the ticket. I also have one for Jesus Christ Superstar at the Palace Theatre: http://www.palace-theatre.co.uk/theatre-history.htm

I don't know who was in that.

>I couldn't believe it when I found the ticket. I also have one for Jesus Christ Superstar at the Palace Theatre. I don't know who was in that.<

Jesus Christ!


Jesus Christ.



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But on a serious note: Nifty!

>I also have one for Jesus Christ Superstar at the Palace Theatre:<

Yes I also saw that in my youth. Funny story. Our whole woman's football team and management team went up to London to see it...I've no idea, why ...but we all loved it, for the spectacle and the music and songs.

Three of us went off to China town, nearby in Soho, beforehand, and had what I remember as being my most favourite Chinese meal ever. Maybe because it was the first vaguely authentic one. Anyway that just adds to the whole fantastic memory.

I love your Patrick Stewart story...and finding the actual ticket.

I'm a bit of a pack rat when I travel: I keep every ticket, receipt, etc. After that first European trip (I was 16) I tucked a whole bunch of that sort of stuff into the photo album I made with my snapshots. I have a ticket for the ride up the Eiffel tower as well.

Right. Here's what fell out of that photo album: http://public.fotki.com/anhaga/fun_stuff/stuff-i-found-from.html

Nah, it didn't fall out all nicely arranged like that

But I love it.

I have a feeling that I've got a little paper bag from the British Museum or something like that full of even more. I wonder where it could be . . .

right. So I've been looking for ideas for a new series of paintings, which is why I found the RSC ticket in the first place. I've also been looking for pictures from Mexico trips. Well, just a moment ago, within inches of each other, I found a huge stack of pictures of Chiapas and . . .


the exact stack of stuff I thought I might have somewhere in a British Museum Bag. No BM bag, sadly but, in no particular order:

a little paper pocket from Air Canada which held my boarding pass

a wee welcome pamphlet from the Worcestershire Hotel in Droitwich (I was in room 106)

a till receipt dated 29 Mar 78 for £6.30 with no indication of what shop it might have been.

a postcard (never addressed or mailed) showing the nave of Notre Dame in Paris

a postcard (same as above) with a detail of a drawing by one Alan Sorrell of Tintern Abbey

my baggage tag with name and address

a receipt from the currency exchange at the Calais Hoverport dated 25-3-78

a receipt for currency exchange at the Banque Nationale de Paris dated 28.0.78

a bill marked paid from the Worcestershire Hotel, Droitwich for £4.60 in wine.( I don't remember that)

a bill from the Hotel Mercure in Paris for minibar use () for 68 francs

a customs declaration for return to Canada dated at Toronto 4 Apr 1978. I claimed $75.00 as the value of my goods. Departure date was 3 23 78. Short trip.

and, the mimeographed itinerary of the trip.

$895 was the cost of the trip.

' The Worcestershire Hotel was built in 1891 by John Corbett (the 'Salt King'). The photograph above shows the hotel around 1900 when it was called the Worcestershire Brine Baths Hotel but the name was changed in the 1950's. John Corbett launched it in grand style on 4th November 1891 with a lavish dinner party for over 100 local workmen who had been involved in the construction works. It had been a specific instruction of Corbett to use local labour. The hotel changed hands several times before World War Two when it was requisitioned for use by the military.

Despite several refurbishments the hotel once described as 'the finest in Britain' never regained its former status. It closed in the 1980's.

In October 2002 it was announced that the hotel was to be demolished to make way for 96 luxury apartments.'

http://www.miac.org.uk/worcshotel.htm