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London Day 7

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December 24th 2010
Merry Christmas and best wishes to you all!!! Not quite Christmas here yet, but we have planned to have a lovely Christmas lunch at a local resturant. Most of the snow has melted in urban London, but yesterday we had a very nice day in Oxford which was covered with snow. We headed to Paddington and caught the British Rail service to Oxford only a comfortable hour away. We caught the sigh ... 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