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Background: Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth's surface. The first half of the 20th century saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars. The second half witnessed the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding itself into a modern and prosperous European nation. As one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a founding member of NATO, and of the Commonwealth, the UK pursues a global approach to foreign policy; it currently is weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it chose to remain outside the Economic and Monetary Union for the time being. Constitutional reform is also a significant issue in the UK. The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly were established in 1999, but the latter is suspended due to bickering over the peace process.

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By Emma and Gary
October 7th 2008

Epilogue - Final Blog (Better Late Than Never)

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Back Through Arrivals
Our triumphant return to the land of rain. Exhausted from lack of sleep and cramped travel.

Around The World In 11 Months Firstly, it's been a ridiculous delay, but after finally managing to get our New York blogs up we made a start on writing this but never got around to finishing it. Job applications and interviews got in the way (back to earth with a crash). Since we've returned, we've had a hundred and one things to do and unfortunately our blog fell off the list of priorities. Partly because we were now able to speak in person to a lot of people who read it but mainly because it doesn't seem as relevant now that [View Full Entry]

By islebutterfly79
September 30th 2008

Scotland Vacation--day 4

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Day four--St. Andrews to Inverness to Isle of Skye Woke up early to get ready for breakfast at Northpoint (a neat little cafe in St. Andrews) with our friends and their friend Sandra that we met the previous night. As I finished getting dressed in the bedroom I heard a strange sound coming from behind the door....when I looked at the door I noticed it was starting to move. "Ou...ou...ou" I heard as the door seemed to be rammed by something on the other side. Suddenly, I see a hand...a little hand...and then...a little face... It was our friends one-year-old who [View Full Entry]

By Joey and Jennifer
September 8th 2008

Train Ride to Scotland

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Royal Highland Hotel

This morning we had to get up really early so mom could drop us off at the train station before going to work. We ended up being able to catch an earlier train than expected on each leg except for the last one. We had to kill 2 hours in the Edinburgh train station because we had just missed the train. When we finally went to catch our train, it turned out that almost all the seats were reserved, so we had to spend the entire trip in tiny little fold-up seats by the doors. It was ok, but not very [View Full Entry]

By Crownbl
September 3rd 2008

Day 6: Inverness/ Edinburgh

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Leanach Cottage

Woke up this morning really, really early, with the intention of getting to Culloden Battlefield when it was still shrouded in fog, but apparently the fates were against us, because in the confusion of trying to figure out which bus to take, we missed it twice... I know you're laughing, but don't forget the Scottish like to play friendly tricks on travelers. Finally just before 10 we found out that there's only one bus that goes to the battlefield, and all the others labeled Culloden are about 5 miles away from the actual historic site. We made it, it was wonderful, [View Full Entry]

By boykingrob
September 3rd 2008

Day 6: Inverness/ Edinburgh

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We started the day of in Inverness by waking up extremely early so that we could get out to the battlefield of Culloden. It was very calming and serence and was the perfect setting for an early morning trip. Getting to this location was however quite an experience. To begin, I could not find my memory card and then we missed the bus not only once, but rather TWICE. It was definitely not the start to our morning that we had wanted. When we got there, we were greeted by a sight that was truly breathtaking. It was green everywhere. After [View Full Entry]

By Crownbl
September 2nd 2008

Day 5: Inverness, Scotland

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Loch Ness

I'm finally to the place of been dreaming of going since I was a kid... parts of it are what I expected it to be, and some are better, others I find are polluted by modernization and crowds. It's interesting to see the contrast between the old town and the new, but in all of my research of this area, I had imagined it as it was, and not as it really is. The town itself is boisterous (at least as small towns go) and friendly. The people are wonderful no matter who you ask, and everyone is starting a conversation [View Full Entry]

By the notty travellers
September 1st 2008

Inverness to Oban

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monster!

August 29 - Inverness to Oban (Geoff) Time to head south! Set the GPS (now we have changed settings and have a not so stern male pommie telling us where to go) and left Inverness at 9.15 heading for Oban on the west coast. this will be our overnight stop before we get onto the ferry for Barra. As we headed south, we drove alongside Scotland's famous Loch Ness. The Loch is 23 miles (about 36 km) long but only ½ to ¾ mile wide. Still it is very deep - in parts up to 700 feet and contains a lot [View Full Entry]

By Crownbl
September 1st 2008

Day 4: Dublin/ Inverness

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St. Audden's

We started out the day in Dublin; got up early to see whatever we could squeeze into an hour and a half before we had to head to the airport. We saw several churches, Dublin Castle, St. Audden's wall and church, Trinity college, and the Bank of Ireland. I can't wait to go back and see more, and hopefully get outside the 10 square blocks we covered! We spent the afternoon traveling first to Edinburgh, where we transferred flights to head to Inverness. The plane was a puddle-jumper! Absolutely the tiniest I've been on since I was around 12 years old. [View Full Entry]

By the notty travellers
August 29th 2008

Inverness

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stark countryside

August 27 - Off to Inverness (Geoff) Well, it was time to leave Edinburgh and head north to Inverness. left about 10.00 am so the traffic was not a great problem. Still took about 20 minutes to clear the city and get onto the A9 but once there it was set the cruise control and away we were. Stopped off in Perth (sounds strange doesn't it?) for some morning tea and a short bit of retail therapy - strange how I was the only one who bought anything - thought that was Sue's job! Off on the road again but only [View Full Entry]

By MCJewel
August 18th 2008

Inverness

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