one of the many fields of crops stretching away to the horizon

Going Home - via the bogie sheds

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August 6th 2010
So here we are boarding our last train. From the outside the train seems really exotic – each of the dozen carriages has a different destination; Moscow-Munich, Moscow-Basel, Moscow-Paris etc. Right at the very end is our carriage, Moscow-Amsterdam, our home for the next 2 nights. Inside, even though its a Russian train, it has a totally different feel to it. The compartments are tiny compa ... 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