la gloire!

ok it is official: england is a nation of inbred mutants.
i spent the day in milton keynes. the place is horrid. i wish i had had my camera with me just to capture the hideousness on film.it was worse than i even knew existed in england. it was worse than i imagine the states must be!
there was one bright light that made the trip worth while: Hachik! i had sent him a text complaining about having to spend the weekend in the dreary and dismal land that for some reason issued both our passports...only to receive and answer telling me that he is in fact only a few towns away, a strange coincidence since we both have a policy of avoiding england, as much as possible....so the hideousness of milton keynes was made interesting through mutually shared horror at the surroundings.
we wandered around the mall. it seems to be the great attraction in the town....but the mall was EVEN WORSE than rosny 2. i didnt know that was possible, but there it was: all around me. the only difference was it was bigger and filled with overweight, inbred looking brits, as opposed to Rosny 2 where i am often the only french-french-looking person around, surrounded by a crossrange of inhabitants of le 93 (quoi!?!)
the milton keynes mall has more than i knew a mall could contain: rock climbing, a swimming pool, a sauna, SKIING....all to be enjoyed by britain's tasteless некультурный mass....which appears to thrive on the sterile setting....we even overheard americans....perhaps they felt more at home amidst such local displays of jiggling plump? maybe they seek refuge in the comfort of KFC (open until 3AM!) Hachik send me into a depression telling me that this was....what people work for.....it was actually someone's idea of a good time!
and the lowest point of all: the bloody place was opened by maggie. she even came and opened it officially. what could be worse? how do people live in this place? and why?
so ok, i admit it, i am a snob.
the shopping is better in france
so are the restaurants.
and so are the waistlines!
needless to say, i have never been so relieved in my life to see gare du nord!