Jake

The End of the Road, back to Stourbridge and school

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September 26th 2009
Our flights back were delayed or cancelled - it was not exactly clear - but this had two outcomes: the airline paid for a night in a hotel near Colombo airport; we were a day late arriving back to the UK. We felt so excited arriving back in familiar Colombo with its gloriously lackadaisical approach to everything. A 5 minute chat with the immigration officer in which he did everything short of i ... 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