Edinburgh, The Royal Brittania and Whitley Bay 011

Edinburgh, The Royal Brittania and Whitley Bay

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May 10th 2011
Today we had a lovely morning on board the Royal Yacht Britannia. It is a very luxurious yacht and we enjoyed our time on board. The rooms are very expensively decorated and the yacht is very spacious. To finish off our visit we had a very nice morning tea which was served in the upper-deck tea room. Very very posh with a silver teapot etc. It was lovely to feel like royalty (even if it was ... 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