Scottish Parliament

Edinburgh, Part 2

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August 7th 2015
Back in Edinburgh after our highlands tour, we have already seen some of the highlights (see previous blogs), so now it's time for some quirkier activities. Also, we're just hitting the first day of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, so we attended two comedy shows - hard to choose from among the (literally) hundreds of plays, concerts, and other acts listed in the phone-book-sized Fringe guide. We ch ... 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