Life's about experiences. These are mine.
The common view is that America isn’t geared up for walking and that you have to drive to get around. Yesterday Helen and I walked about 12 miles so it is certainly possible to get around on foot – it’s just that the Americans choose not to. The woman that owns the B&B we are …
Despite fearing that my body might insist on keeping me on UK time I actually slept pretty well last night. I was able to sleep through until 7am with only a couple of periods awake. The bed itself was typically American – big and very high off the ground, poor Helen needed a step ladder …
We’re off again and this time it’s a big one – the west coast of America. This is a trip that we had planned to take to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. Given that this year was our 27th anniversary you can see we slipped a little. Over the next three weeks we will be …
It has become something of a tradition to do a round up post at the end of our Florida holidays and so this is it. Here I group together all the posts to allow you to quickly find the post most relevant to what you are interested in. If you want to do a comparison …
Given that the flight back to the UK is late afternoon this gives us plenty of time for one last hurrah. Even though we had only been there yesterday it was decided to go back to Hollywood Studios today. I have to admit that this was done on a majority vote basis and like the …
I don’t do roller coasters so coming to Orlando might seem a strange holiday choice but there is so much to do that is on the ground that it really hasn’t been an issue. However, I did make a promise to Alex that I would go on a slightly more adventurous coaster this time and …
Today was down to be a quiet day but didn’t end up that way. The plan had been to have a late breakfast at Perkins followed by shopping in the afternoon and then in to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner. We managed the first part successfully and a bit of the shopping too after which …
Continue reading “USA '14 – Day 13 – Dial one, get one free”
As we get ever closer to the end of the holiday the realisation starts to dawn that you only have so many trips to the parks left and so there is much debate about what we should do when. We are also haunted by the thought that this will be the last time that we …
I am not sure why we haven’t done this before but today we took a trip to the coast to get a boat out of St. Pete Beach to find some dolphins. This is relatively a long way away and so requires me to do something before we that I hate – filling the car …
Continue reading “USA '14 – Day 11 – The Thompsons – dolphin hunters”
Today was (mostly) a boy free day as Helen and I decided to do something slightly more cultural while Alex sat in misery in front of the Man United game! We went to visit Winter Park, somewhere we hadn’t been previously and has been recommended in the guide books. Helen noted that it had a …