Palace Reflections

What a week!

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September 25th 2006
So I've just got back to London after a week of running around mainland europe and it was soo much fun. So I left London on the 18th and after landing in Paris and eventually making it to my hostel (I spent a good hour just trying to get a train ticket!) I spent the afternoon in the Lourve (a very impressive palace in it's own right) which is the first museum I've been in where I haven't got bored ... 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