The top of The Old Man Of Coniston

Our first taste of the Lake District

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May 5th 2010
After 3 months of travelling we finally made it to the Lake District, a place we had both wanted to go to but never made it before. The weather was fantastic throughout and the scenery was even more stunning than we thought it would be. We visited Coniston and Windermere, as well as some smaller waters, and they were great, but it was the hills that really engaged our attention. We warmed up o ... 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