cultural experience

heh, heh. as we know, my enthusiasm for museums, cathedrals, and other historical or educational sightseeing has been waning at the downward slope of an olympic ski jump ramp. swoosh. i'd rather eat cardboard than go to the louvre again in the next 18 months.

but i haven't given up on culture entirely. i still like reading, food, drink, and events. theatre, markets, gatherings, festivals, and the like.

recently we attended the local greyhound track. every tuesday and saturday at Mildenhall Stadium (your ticket buys you the whole seat, but you'll only need the edge) the professional greyhound trainers turn loose their canine stallions for winnings as high as $50 a race. if the same breeder won every race, they could have a winnings of $600 a night! probably just enough to feed the 12 dogs who won. ha!

it was awesome. fish and chips, havin' a bet, the old country version of white trash, and pints of beer in a rural setting so "easy to find." we one some, we lost some, we drank ale. a smashing time. and we made a few mistakes (like taking a flash photograph of the race in progress), but the brits are so nice that a woman kindly reminded us to not take photographs with flash and then assured us that it was ok we made a small mistake. we wouldn't know unless we were regulars. we can only hope.