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Westminster/Royal Horseguards/Churchill War Room/Tower of London

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August 1st 2014
We started out today on a wonderful bus tour of London, which gave us an overview of many places we plan to visit in the coming days. We then got off the bus and went inside Westminster Abbey - it was fun imagining what it must have been like to be a guest there for the Royal Wedding. From there, we visited Churchill's War Rooms - the Cabinet War Rooms & the Churchill Museum. We had lunch at the B ... 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