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Backpacking in Europe: 6 degrees of separation in London

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December 20th 2006
I'm writing about a trip to Europe that I did more than 5 years ago, so it's mostly about anecdotes that I remember about this trip. The previous post was about Paris. In the afternoon of Wednesday 20th of December I said goodbye to Paris, hopped on a train in the Gare du Nord train station and crossed the English Channel to arrive at the Waterloo train station, where I was going t ... 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