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A Long List

In an effort for us to remember all we did, we compiled a list of all the places we visited. I'm sure we missed a few, but here's a chronological list... (To those of you still getting these e-mails, don't worry...there won't be too many more.) The British Museum The British Library Westminster Abbey Buckingham Palace London Natural History Museum Victoria & Albert Museum Liverpool Library Anfield Stadium The Beatles Experience Windsor Castle The Tower of London Chinatown Estadio Anoeta Monte Urgull San Sebastian Aquarium La Rambla Camp Nou Picasso Museum La Sagrada Familia Catedral de Barcelona Park Güell Barcelona Maritime Museum Franciscan Monastery, Pridvorje Sokol Tower Konavoski Dvori Walls of Ston Lokrum Island Kotor Old Town St. John’s Fortress Kotor Cat Meowseum Walls of Dubrovnik Rector’s Palace Assumption Cathedral, Dubrovnik Ljubljana Castle St. Nicholas Cathedral, Ljubljana National Library Slovenia Postojna Cave...

This Is England

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Author:  Brandon (Dad) Here you thought you were all done with #BronzansOnTheLoose.  Not so fast my friends. We never got a chance to fill you in on our final days in England.  Yes, we've been home a couple of days, but I'm just now sitting down and able to type a bit.  So let's do this.  The thrilling conclusion to Bronzan Family European Adventure 2018 awaits... When we last left you, we were headed to England on an early morning flight out of Lisbon.  Well, that plane did land and we arrived at Gatwick late in the morning.  After filing through customs, we made our way to a Holiday Inn right next to the airport.  We opted for simplicity in accommodations during our last stop.  We dropped our bags and jumped on a train just a few minutes later set for the seaside resort town of Brighton.  Following a nice lunch we wandered down to the Brighton Palace Pier and had a look around.  The kids spent a few pounds at the arcade be...

Portugal the Blog

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Author: Brandon (Dad) In less than a week we will be back in California. This thought has left us trying to squeeze every moment out of this summer that we can, and in a way we’ve neglected the writing of the blog. My apologies to the one or two of you that are following along! I assure you that the story of this trip will continue to be told after we return. We’re on a flight to London as we speak, leaving Portugal in our chemtrails. We hadn’t planned a trip to Portugal. In fact, the original plan (and by original, I mean the plan I concocted a few weeks ago) had us winding down our final days in Ireland. However, plane tickets from Budapest to Dublin spiked and so I looked at a map and thought of new destinations. By the way, if you ever have the opportunity to look at a map, point, and go somewhere, it’s incredibly fun. Portugal had always been of interest to me. We were in Spain back in June and we really liked it. My brother, Aaron, and his wife Marian, visited the coun...