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Day 7 - Travelling the English Countryside

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December 8th 2009
We were up very bright and early on this exciting day. I was going to be driving to Oxford and then onto Gloucester today ... or at least that is what the plan was. We had prebooked a car that we would collect near the Heathrow airport. Had already determined that I didn't want to be driving in London city at all, and the outskirts seemed like a reasonable proposition. It was a nice little ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Gloucestershire » Gloucester

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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