View from our apartment

Edinburgh

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October 23rd 2009
On Friday we left here to go to Edinburgh where we would be staying for a couple of days. After meeting Auntie Kay and Alex, we all set off for Edinburgh Castle. The first thing we did was look up the war memorial books. We were pleasantly surprised by the amount of Veitch’s there were - including a Thomas Veitch! We also went down to the dungeons where they used to keep the prisoners. As well ... 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