Urquhart From the Water

Day 5: Inverness, Scotland

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September 2nd 2008
I'm finally to the place of been dreaming of going since I was a kid... parts of it are what I expected it to be, and some are better, others I find are polluted by modernization and crowds. It's interesting to see the contrast between the old town and the new, but in all of my research of this area, I had imagined it as it was, and not as it really is. The town itself is boisterous (at least a ... 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