It turns out the Guildfordians are quite a religious species, and they have houses of veneration that are remarkably similar to what we on Earth call churches.

After many, many months of travelling at light speed aboard my spaceship – called 'Lomo X-1' – I finally made it to the nearest galaxy, Andromeda, and touched down carefully upon a planet that I soon learned was called 'Guildford'. This is the photographic journal of my brief visit to that weird but wonderful, and very welcoming, little planet.

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