The Lake District

Full Circle

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April 15th 2007
There I was stood in Heathrow airport wondering how to get up to Manchester thinking 'If this was another country it would be so easy to find out the transport links' I went to the train station information desk, they didn't know times or costs of trains to Manchester, just the time of the next underground tram. I got some sterling, £100, that wouldn't last long, and found the real airport in ... 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