The Gunpowder Treason and Plot

The Rain is Back

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August 17th 2014
London apparently has 230 days of rain a year. I suppose we couldn't avoid all of them. We did only get poured on for about an hour, though, then we had sun for the rest of the day. We took an early train in to Waterloo Station, which is really ideally located in the middle of everything that tourists always want to see. The London Eye sits right outside the station. Across the Thames was sitti ... 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