Tower of London

Tea and Crumpets with the Queen: Day 4

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September 8th 2014
Okay I'll admit we really didn't have tea and crumpets with the queen but I thought it was a catchy title, but Day 4 of our vacation we did go across the pond to England. Thanks to the marvels of European civil engineering, the entire continent is connected thru the train system, you can go from Paris to London in two hours on a train. I can barely drive thru Houston traffic in two hours but I'll ... 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