Leeds Porticullis

The Downs of Kent

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December 30th 2006
Today started early... I couldn't sleep last night and was up until at least 3am. Mom was snoring away next to me with apparently no problem sleeping. (don't tell her I said that... lol... I'm serious). Anyways, we got up at 7 so that we could be at the Victoria Coach Station by 8:45am. By the way, a coach station is a bus station. Yesterday the weather report said that it was supposed to be ... read more

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Kent » Maidstone

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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