For the past few days I've been in Milton Keynes, a rather unique town here in the UK. I'm back at home now for the weekend, but have another two days in MK from Monday.

I'd never been to Milton Keynes before, so it was a bit of an eye-opener. The town is unique in that it was 'planned' in the sixties, and has an American style grid layout, with lots of fast roads avoiding the town bits. You can drive around much of the town at 70mph quite legally, although there are roundabouts every mile no matter what road you're on.

If you venture off of the main roads, as I did on my first day there, it gets a bit crazy though. Roads often loop round in circles over the course of a mile or two, and there are lots of 'unfinished' bits with weird maze-like road layouts. It's the first town that's ever got me laughing maniacally going 'Help!' after twenty minutes. Of course, I eventually found my way..

I've heard people say Milton Keynes is less a town than a collection of a hundred villages, and I'd go along with that. Driving around the main roads, you rarely see any evidence of a town, since most of the main roads are lined with trees, with the residential areas hidden away in distinctly named neighbourhoods defined only by the main roads which surround them.

Interesting place.. worth going once, although I haven't got a real feel for any reason to want to stay there yet. It all feels a little anonymous and odd, even if the road system is good.