Rosslyn Chapel

Day 2-Edinburgh

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June 24th 2011
630am: Knocked Up 730am: Breakfast 830am: Day Begins Let me start off by explaining "knocked up". In Scotland, maybe elsewhere as well, getting "knocked up" in the morning means someone knocks on your room door to wake you up, like a wake up call. You can imagine gasps from us as we were told the evening before we would be getting knocked yup at 630am. I just thought the tour had EVERYTHIN ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » Scotland

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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