The coffee shop where JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book as a struggling single mother

Back in the UK

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June 17th 2014
It might only be 7:30am here, but the sun has already been up for two hours. Yes, friends, I'm in the Scottish highlands, on a train this time instead of my usual blogging bus (typing to the sound of, "Please mind the gap when alighting from this train." The British make everything sound so proper). Since my last post I have been to Berlin, Edinburgh, and Loch Lomond, and I am en route to London-- ... 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