For those of you who want a break from the Parks I think will you enjoy Fort De Soto Park which is a large park in Pinellas County with over 1, 100 acres of recreational facilities and beautiful beaches. It is about an hour and a half from Orlando an...
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I wonder if you know which beach in Florida has been voted the number one beach? Well, I can tell you! It is Fort De Soto North Beach which actually is made up of Mullet (the fort site); St Jean; St Christopher; Madelaine and Bonne Fortune K...
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One of the great things about a trip to Orlando, apart from the theme parks, is the shopping. With Britain deep in recession and more cut backs to come, if you are lucky enough to be able to go to Orlando you will be able to make great savings on so ...
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One year when visiting Florida we decided to buy tickets for Busch Gardens, Tampa which allowed us to enter as many times as we liked in a seven day period. Busch Gardens is a fairly easy drive from our villa (providing the traffic on the I4 keeps mo...
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The Hemingway House and Museum on Whitehead Street in Key West is a National Historic Landmark. The mansion and gardens are open to the public from 9 - 5 pm 365 days of the year and the entrance fee when we visited in Nov 2007 was $11 with a ...
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Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park is located 10 miles south west of Pensacola and 2 miles south of the U. S. 98. This was first acquired by thge Parks Department in the 1990s and was originally 900 acres. Since then the Department has added m...
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Kentucky – a road trip through the state:- part 6
After spending a few days in Louisville we headed out on the reason for this trip which was a tour of some of the interesting place that Kentucky has to offer. The first section of the ...
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There are many excellent steak houses in the Orlando area, but if you want to visit a great one that I personally feel offers truly the best value for all you get, you have to go to Texas Roadhouse! It’s located on John Young Parkway in Orlando. ...
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Although we had visited Key West several times, it was not until our third visit that we decided to take the Conch Train Tour. Of course they are not real trains, but they are fun to see, with their little black engines chugging through the streets o...
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If you are planning to spend a day at the Gulf Coat, why not head for Clearwater which is easily accessible from the Orlando area via the Interstate 4. The journey takes about an hour and a half - and is an easy drive, down the I4, through Tam...
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SUMMER
A lilac in flower is the real symbol that warm weather has set in and there is an air of excitement once they come into bloom. Throughout the warm months, the city is deserted at weekends ...
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A bit further south you start to leave the older European style buildings as you walk down St. Sulpice Street, this will lead you to the Place Royale and the Archaeology and History Museum Pointe-à-Callière which is set right above the birthplace of ...
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You can’t miss the large neon sign for Downtown Disney and Planet Hollywood as you drive down the I-4. Most people bump it on their way down from the airport to accommodation. Located right at the entrance to Downtown Disney the building is a very im...
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Schloss Binningen, located just out of town, is a castle-hotel and restaurant with a storied past. It was first mentioned in 1299 as a castle with a moat, and in the 14th century it was nearly destroyed by two earthquakes, but it was reconstructed in...
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If you say Washington most people outside of the U. S. automatically think of the capital. However those two letters, DC, and a matter of 3000 miles brings you to the other one, Washington State.
At this point asked about the state, m...
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On our first trip to Key West we saw an advert for Harry S Truman’s Little White House and decided to pay a visit, although not being quite sure what to expect. Were we going to see a scaled down version of the West Wing? No, as it happens! T...
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You possibly think of Sanford as that airport that you pass through on your way in and out of Florida.
However it is a charming and historic City bordering on Lake Monroe and close to St Johns River. There are a host of historic buildings...
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Sarasota is situated in the gulf coast about a good one and a half hours drive away from Orlando To get there you would talk the I 4 towards Tampa then the I75 south Sarasota has lots to offer. For a start the beach at siesta key has f...
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In my last article I wrote about things I liked about another supermarket chain with many stores in Florida, Publix but this time I am going to write about another supermarket chain one that most people should be familiar with, Wal-Mart
Shop...
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I’ll never forget the first time I saw Walt Disney’s spectacular evening parade ‘SpectroMagic’ at Magic Kingdom. It was one of those times when you don’t know whether to laugh or cry because your emotions are carried away and you almost cannot believ...
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By now it was approaching mid afternoon and it was time we became selective about our sight seeing or else, due to time constraints we were going to miss out on things we really wanted to see.
Being Sunday, the Joseph Smith Memorial B...
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CONGAREE is in the state of South Carolina and has an area of 107sq km.
This is the place to go for wildlife watching, canoeing and hiking, it was created in 2003.
Foragers and fishermen may have appreciated it in preh...
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For many years Disney has operated a very good free FASTPASS system where you are able to get tickets for the more popular rides and bypass the main queues. The system worked well and helped people plan their day around some of the more popular rides...
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Cuyahoga Valley is in the state of Ohio and was created as a state park in 2000, it’s a great place to go for cycling, hiking and railways
The Cuyahoga Valley is Ohio’s only national park and attracts people in their droves with over ...
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Gatorland is one of Florida’s oldest attractions. The same family own it now as they did when it was started. It is on Orange blossom trail, not very far up from the Florida Mall and only 15 – 20 minutes from Disney world. It is an id...
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