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Tips when visiting Downtown Disney

The car parks at Downtown Disney are vast so do make sure you can remember where you parked your car! After several hours shopping and maybe even havi

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Shopping at Posner Park

Posner Park is situated on the 27 south just after the junction with the I4. If you want to enjoy your shopping without the hustle and bustle of crowd

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Drive Safely

If you are from the UK, as you already know, Americans drive on the 'wrong' side of the road. The times when you are more likely to make a mi

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The Magic of Disney Animation at Hollywood Studios

One of our favourite places to visit when we are at Hollywood studios is the Magic of Disney Animation. Not an exhilarating ride or fabulous show but

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ONE TANK ADVENTURES......ST AUGUSTINE

St Augustine is a beautiful city with many interesting places to visit; however, when you have seen all there is to see, then consider checking the St

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Florida Mall in Orlando

This has been a favourite Mall for our family for many years but now our daughters are teenagers they can shop for England. Situated on South Orange B

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Pirates of the Caribbean.

Pirates of the Caribbean is located in Adventureland, in the Caribbean Plaza of the Magic Kingdom and opened on December 15, 1973. Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A Pir

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Blue Spring State Park

For a great day out away from the hustle and bustle of the Theme Parks why not visit Blue Spring State Park in Seminole county. The park lies to the n

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Economy Family Dining

First of all, be assured that portion sizes are so large in the US that economy doesn’t mean still hungry! If there are a lot of people in your group

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Kenedy Space Center

This is located 45 minutes from Orlando and is well worth a visit although not really suitable for very young children. Kenedy is open all year except

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Fantasmic

For anyone visiting Disney a trip to Hollywood Studios is a must, always popular with the whole of the family the park really has something for everyo

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Not your typical adrenalin junkie

I’m not your typical adrenalin junkie. When I visit the fantastic theme parks in central Florida, I don’t rush to the thrill rides and buzz with antic

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Florida Trip 2017 Day 12, Part 1

Now today was to be a Marathon day we had found we had a few days left on our old Disney tickets and so we decided to make our first and only visit to

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Golf in Florida

It is never difficult to find a reason to choose Florida for a vacation. For families, the Disney theme parks (and Universal, SeaWorld and the others)

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Breakfast at Celebration

Celebration is only three miles from our villa so we often go there to enjoy the tranquillity and get away from the hustle and bustle of Orlando and t

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Poland: An Overview - Part 2

Warsaw, Poland’s largest city by far and its commercial and political capital, is not the bleak grey morass of Communist days. It may still be a littl

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The Town of Celebration

The quaint and pretty town of Celebration is an oasis amidst the hustle and bustle of the theme parks. Created by Disney in 1994 and launched to celeb

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Travelling Light

Airlines are really moving the goal posts these days with all their changes to luggage allowances. First they decided to start charging for extra

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City of Thessaloniki - Part 2

If you follow the port road of Leoforos Nikis heading east along the bay you will come to the Lefkos Pyrgos, or White Tower is the symbol of the city

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Downtown Disney West Side

Orlando is a mecca for shopping and dining but there is one place that has it all –sprinkled with some Disney magic pixie dust. That place is Downtown

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Test Track at Epcot

This is one of the more recent additions to Disney well when I say recent I mean in the last 5 years! Anyway this has to be one of everyone’s favourit

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Wal-Mart...possibly the greatest supermarket on earth!

OK so we all have popped down to our local Tesco or even Asda at some time in the past but if you are relatively new to the USA I can definitely recom

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Shopping in Florida, or how to make your trip pay for itself, almost! (Part 3)

Our daughter loves Mac make up so this is something else we look out for on trips to the Florida Mall or The Mall at Millennia again it is around half

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Orlando City MLS - Part 2

Continued from part 1 We made all these arrangements several weeks before the game, in fact as soon as tickets became available and then forgot abo

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Cyprus: Troodos places of interest - Part 5

PANAGIA ASINOU CHURCH The Panagia Asinou church is a listed UNESCO World Heritage site. It is a small church dedicated to the Virgin of “Phorbia”,

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