The Tower Bridge in the Morning

A Long Weekend in London to the 3rd Degree

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October 15th 2007
I got up and moving and checked out of the hostel by about 8:00. As I was walking out the door, the Aussies I had met the night before were walking back in (they had left to go out about 9:00), each with a girl on his arm. One of them said, "It was a good night." I grinned and said that I believed him. I took the tube to central London. My directions weren't perfect, so I ended up a little way ... read more

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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 ear... ... read more