Queue at Heathrow

First day in London

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August 11th 2007
Hello everybody. This is going to sound like a whinge, but it's not, it's just that everything that could have gone wrong went wrong spectacularly today!!! But it was actually fun, except for one bit, and if we hadn't already been awake for 20 hours we probably would have been laughing at it then, but we're laughing at it now so all's good. Japan was nice, we had a great (yet bizzare) break ... 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