Rear gate to Kensington Palace

Day 1 in London

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June 1st 2018
Official greetings from London! Happy to be here, but such a jangled day - tired, lonesome, and generally discombobulated from all the travel in the past 24 hours. Not really complaining, and a good night's sleep and meeting up with Alex Saturday set all right. Spent the morning in Kensington Gardens (western part of Hyde Park, adjacent to Kensington Palace). Weather was perfect: about 65, most ... 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