The Cavern Club

More Big Cities and The Beatles

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July 24th 2014
We arrived in Glasgow on Friday evening, July 18th, and left on Sunday afternoon. Glasgow is a sprawling urban area with universities, museums, pubs, large buildings, and a small, circular subway line. Very different from Edinburgh. On Saturday, our first day there, it rained the whole day. The miserable weather made for a less than ideal introduction to the city. We still saw the Botanical Garden ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom

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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