Edinburgh Botanical Gardens

Scarborough

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January 14th 2011
Our holiday on holiday in Edinburgh was great. We had a lazy mornings at the hotel followed by walks around the old streets of Edinburgh. We visited Edinburgh Castle, shopped at all the touristy shops (for me of course) and managed to climb Arthur's Seat. Not an easy feat when I thought I was climbing the smaller hill and was not mentally prepared to climb the HUGE one. Ok, so it wasn't that big, ... 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