The Stocks

Our Favourite Castle

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July 8th 2014
Our journey from Edinburgh started at the train station, where we picked up our rental car. After fitting all of us and our luggage into the car, we had our first experience with standard transmission, right hand side driving. Unlike our experience in Australia, even with narrow streets and round abouts, our voyage to England was mostly uneventful. In fact no other motorists gestured, honked or st ... 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