Merchant City festival

You can take the girl out of England...

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August 19th 2012
This trip is a love affair with the UK. Rhys is a complete Anglophile (he only married me so he can enter British territory whenever he likes) and I am the typical immigrant – born here but brought up in New Zealand - a citizen of both but belonging to neither. He has fantasised about retiring here, but a complete lack of summer has cured him of that. I always feel like I’m visiting as a for ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England

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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