Our boat

Day 7 The day we went on a boat trip and our boat broke

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July 29th 2009
This time we decided to get up at 8 a.m. and it worked - we made it to the boat. There were actually two boats, and determined to go on a boat trip I dragged Mike onto the first one, looking triumphant as the boat left the pier and the people who didn't make it onto the first boat. Little did I know that I just pushed and shoved our way onto a doomed boat. Well, not quite so dramatic, but you'll s ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more