Britannia

Changes of Plans

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August 28th 2008
The last few days have been all about changing plans. I was meant to leave for Scotland yesterday, but the day after Verona became lost time. Sensory overload, on top of too much wine and too many late nights, required me to take a day off. So, tenUK pushed everything back a day for me and I took off this morning. Isn't the sound of an alarm clock going off at 4.00 worse than the hounds of hel ... 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