the pier

Brighton Bubbly!

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January 1st 2006
Okay, so perhaps not the most exotic of locations, but memories of the cool sea breeze sweeping off the sea front is sufficiently scrumptious for me to write a travel entry. .."sunshine through my window, that's what you are... my shining star" was an apt track to be playing in the car as we drove from London to Brighton. Although unfortunately for Anthony, it was my company and not Gabrielle's ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England

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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