(whining.)(travel) 1) Why is it that every restaurant and shop in London plays m

(whining.)(travel)

1) Why is it that every restaurant and shop in London plays music so loudly that conversation, or even thought, is impossible? If I want to go to a dance club I will. It is ruining my trip. Aspies and chaotic overstimulation do not go well together. (Today I’m buying ear plugs.)

2) Service is economically Peter-Principled everywhere. The help is useless. Another artifact of the state’s abuse of credit.

3) The clothing selection in Kiev is better. Everything on Regent St is just a minor variation on The Gap. I can’t get Saville Row and Polo in Kiev but I can get everything else in greater variety.

4) I forgot how bad the food is here. Potatoes should NOT taste like cardboard.

5) It is so GOOD to hear English spoken and to see ‘my people’. 🙂 Sigh.