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Up the Fosse Way

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August 3rd 2006
To get our heads and bodies fit for cycling through Cuba and South America, we have cycled up part of the Fosse Way in England. It's an ancient Roman road that runs between Ilchester (near Exeter) and Lincoln, and is Britain's straightest road. To start, however, we had to get out of Heathrow, and what more appropriate way of beginning a year's cycling trip than by riding away from the one of ... 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