Parishioners could travel to these makeshift villages from far and wide, sleep overnight and go to church the next morning before beginning the long journey home.

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She never stopped dreading the long journey home.

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Many deserted and began the long difficult journey home across the Sahara and arid mountain ranges, avoiding checkpoints as they went.

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To keep them from the heat, on the long train journey from his home in Buffalo, he had wrapped the samples stoutly in dry ice and newspaper.

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Across the city, Kate Atkins is back home after another long journey from her comprehensive in Harrogate.

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But the female cubs are too young to make such a long journey yet so will spend a few months on the island before travelling to their permanent home.

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The next time you're on your journey home - be it from work or from holidays - and you're bemoaning the long motorway drive, just think how much worse it would be without the 50-year-old stretch of highway.

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