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Home Again: highlights and random reminiscing

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August 26th 2009
After 5 months, 10 countries and over 20 modes of transport, we're heading home! Highlights of the trip included: >The very beginning - the feeling of ultimate freedom driving the hire car away from Auckland! >New Chums (our first beach!) >The Great Barrier Reef (a predictable choice, but true!) >Trekking through the rice terraces at Batad in the Philippines >El Nido, especially b ... 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