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The entertainments available in bars differ enormously depending on which country you travel to in the world.  Over here in the UK, darts was once an integral part of every public bar layout and it was advisable to mind your head when a match was in progress.  Over the past thirty years many of these traditional entertainments have disappeared from most of our pubs, such as the billiards or pool table.  Small wonder, since the table itself and its pool table accessories took up a lot of room.  And of course they did not generate much income for the owners, whereas slot machines were big earners.  Pubs and bars over here have generally smartened their act up over the past fifteen years, and they are now great places to eat as well as drink.  The menus in pubs, pub-restaurants and gastro pubs now rival anything on offer in the average restaurant and they cost a lot less.  Most pubs in the UK are child friendly during the day so the family can eat together.  Foreign visitors to the UK sometimes find it hard to see how the protocol of the average pub works.  You normally find somewhere to sit before going to the bar to order your drinks and/ or food.  It is acceptable to move chairs from elsewhere in the pub if you need extra seats, as long as nobody is sitting on them!