For further pre-dinner entertainment head over to Lumpinee Boxing stadium to watch a traditional Muay Thai fight. You will see strong displays of force and respect as local and foreign fighter’s battle it out in the ring.
For dinner, ...
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Looking for somewhere a little different for a meal to celebrate my nieces 18th Birthday in September 2015 we looked on the internet and found the Zen Restaurant at the Omni Resort at Championsgate. It’s only about a ten minute drive from our villa o...
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On my last trip to Florida I chose to use Alamo to supply my rental car for our 2 week stay and was able to select a Ford Edge Limited from the rental parking lot. With my wife and two teenage daughters luggage capacity is one of necessities that has...
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You always need a car in Florida and having a car gives you the opportunity to take highway 1 due south from West Palm Beach to Boca Raton. The ride down highway one is typical of America, you pass through many small-medium sized towns of low...
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If you’re looking to visit somewhere different in Florida when you’re staying in Orlando. I can fully recommend visiting St Augustine. This city is the The Nation’ s Oldest City was founded in 1565. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occu...
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Mount Dora is a charming little town about 35 miles north of Orlando and is a true Mecca for antique collectors. There are probably more interesting and varied antique dealers per square foot than any other place in Florida. To top that off, nearb...
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And so to Harry Potter.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is Universal’s greatest triumph to date. You enter through The Lost Continent into England to see the snow capped roofs of the buildings in Hogsmeade and on to Hogwarts. The ...
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Beyond Queenstown in the Queenstown-Lakes District are the Lakes Hawera and Wanaka and the smaller towns of Arrowtown, Glenorchy, Kingston, Wanaka, Alexandra and Cromwell. The following activities are also found in the region:
- Ben L...
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When it comes to dining out in and around the Disney area you will not be disappointed. There are literally hundreds of restaurants in the area to satisfy most tastes. We've listed a few of our favourites below that you may want to try. Red L...
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This is an expensive evening out and we had visited our villa in Orlando for several years before we went to see a performance. Cirque Du Soleil is located in Downtown Disney’ s West Side. From Downtown Orlando take I-4 West to exit 68 ...
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Kentucky – a road trip through the state:- part 9
The previous article told you something about the history of the jail, so now it’s time to move to the current day. There is a large amount to do in the surrounding area so this is one ...
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Sanford Airport is M. C. O. s younger, plainer sister but is well known to all those Brits that take charter flights.
The main carrier using this airport are Allegiant Air and they are a budget airline that travel from 30 other domestic c...
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Delve into the backstreets of this eastern Sri Lankan city you will find a vibrant food scene, a friendly reception and Hindu temples worth lingering over.
Sitting in one of the world’s finest natural harbours, Trinco’s (as the locals...
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Black Canyon Of The Gunnison is located in Colorado and is 124 sq km in size. The park was created in 1999 and is best known for its spectacular lookouts and rim trails.
This park doesn’t have quite the scale of the Grand Canyon so wh...
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Royal Palace and National Monument; for those who don’t just want to use Dam Square as a pass-through then the Palace of Dam square is open for visitors for a large part of the year. A major part of the art collection of the Oranje Nassau royal famil...
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I would like to tell you about our visit to Cirque Du Soleil.
We decided to go to Down Town Diney one evening and on the spur of the moment we decided to buy tickets there and then and go and see the show. We had been many times to Downtown...
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We had passed the Cracker Barrel restaurant situated on the Highway 192 many times before we decided to try it. We were intrigued by the veranda at the front of the restaurant with the rocking chairs on display! It just reminded us of a typical Ameri...
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Another item on our ‘to do’ list was Chalet Suzanne and we finally got the chance to fit it into a hectic schedule in September 2006. It is as quaint and a pretty as it sounds and at just less than an hour from the Orlando area it is not too taxing a...
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Imagine a cold, wet, wintry day in February in England and then being transported to this beautiful, hot, sunny, palm tree fringed paradise. That was my experience when I visited South Beach Miami one year. It was like dying and going to heaven. The ...
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Belmond La Résidence D’Angkor
This was one of the first luxury hotels in Siem Reap, the tranquil, 59 suite hotel borrows from classical Khmer meets French colonial design motifs to create a garde...
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Continued from part 1
The most sensible point to start your exploration of the park is the rim visitor center at Pointe Supreme. The visitor center opens daily 9 AM until 6 PM from around mid-May until around mid October. The winter ra...
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I must admit this is one of my favourite parts of Universal Studios. I suspect it might just be the kid in me because my Mother bought me all these books when I was quite young.
It really is a great place for the young ones to relax and e...
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The Magic Kingdom utility corridors (known as Utilidors) are a chain of tunnels which have been built directly underneath the Magic Kingdom theme park. They were originally built so that waste materials could easily be removed and to also provide hid...
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You’d be remiss not to visit this bustling food bazaar, local chefs serve up everything from paella with pork belly and duck from a local, all organic farm to Tibetan dumplings. Toronto has the second biggest Tibetan population in the world. It’s ear...
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Ybor City was founded by Don Vincente Ybor in 1886,it was based on the cigar industry and had a largely Latin population though the city also opened its arms to Germans and Afro Cubans The first cigar factory was opened in 1886 and until the 1...
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