The Monument to Captain Cook in Whitby

Saying Goodbye to the Motherland

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February 15th 2008
Since we last blogged, we made a last weekend dash to the traditional seaside town of Whitby with the Botterell's (Daniel's boss and extended family to friends we're staying with). We left it to the last weekend in the hope we’d get some good weather. We set off from Sutton on a beautiful mild, sunny Sunday and it stayed that way until we got just over the Moors when we discovered fog, and it wa ... 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