Terrorist checkpoint

Last day of London Pass

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July 20th 2012
Wednesday was the last day of our London Pass so we had to race round and do all the things we hadn't had time for. We started at Westminster and Big Ben. Actually when we passed here on Tuesday we were caught up in a protest by 200 London cab drivers all tooting and holding up traffic around parliament, it was crazy! Today the police had a terrorist checkpoint set up stopping any vaguely s ... 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