The Abbey

Leaving Romsey for Yorkshire

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June 10th 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008 Romsey, England The sun rises early in England in the summer. At about 5:30am, I rolled over in bed to a bright sky and assumed that I had overslept. Jackie was still asleep so I eased myself up to find my watch. That’s when I realized that Pete wasn’t kidding when he told us the night before that we’d have daylight by 3:30am. I jumped back in bed and returned to ... 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