Florida Guide - Places to Visit - Page 1

A wonderful city by the Sea called St Augustine
Somewhere very different in Florida when you’re staying in Orlando and just over 1. 5 hours drive is a place called St Augustine. I can fully recommend visiting St Augustine. This city is the The Nation' s Oldest City was founded in 1565. St. Augusti...
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ICE 2010
Each year Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Centre hosts “ICE” as part of their Christmas programme and it is really worth seeing. This is the second time that we have been and most of the display was completely new to us so it was well worth it. Viewed 11 times since 17 January 2010.

Mallory Square - Key West
Several years ago we decided to go down the Florida Keys and stay at Key West for a couple of nights. There is a fabulous laid back atmosphere here and fun to be had in Mallory Square day or night, spring, summer, autumn or winter you will find there...
Viewed 12 times since 12 January 2010.

The Old Jail and St Augustine History Museum
If you get time to visit St Augustine, and I strongly recommend that you do, it is possible to go for a day with a very early start and a late return to Orlando. However to see everything and explore this beautiful city it is good if you can stay at ...
Viewed 12 times since 9 January 2010.

Key West Narrated Trolley Bus Tour
For our visit to Key West a few years ago my Father did a lot of the planning. We stayed at Fort Lauderdale for a night before going on our journey down the Keys. Because it appeared to be a long drive we decided to stay overnight half way down the K...
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The Lightner Museum
No visit to St Augustine is complete without going to the Lightner Museum which is located in the historic downtown. It is 20 minutes from I-95, one hour from Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, and two hours from Disney World, Epcot Center and Cape Cana...
Viewed 11 times since 9 January 2010.

San Sebastion Winery - St Augustine
We first saw San Sebastian Winery on a trolley bus tour on our first trip to StAugustine. From the outside it does not look very inspiring but friends of ours who had visited it the previous year urged us to try a visit to it. Unlike much of ...
Viewed 10 times since 9 January 2010.

Celebration
One of our favourite places to visit, apart from the numerous theme parks in and around Orlando, is called Celebration. Celebration is a little town just south of the US 192 adjacent to Interstate 4. One of the best ways of finding it, if you have ne...
Viewed 13 times since 5 January 2010.

Christmas at St Augustine
Next time you visit Orlando at Christmas why not take a trip across to St Augustine, the oldest city in Florida, which is steeped in history? However, at Christmas St Augustine is even more attractive as it sparkles with over two million bulbs. Each ...
Viewed 14 times since 4 January 2010.

The Bishop Planetarium
We had taken up a suggestion from an American couple we had met a week or so earlier to visit their hometown of Bradenton which is situated on the Gulf of Mexico just south of the city of Tampa. Out intention had been to head for the beaches ...
Viewed 15 times since 3 January 2010.

The new Town Center at Cagan's Crossing
When we visit our villa in Orlando we always enjoy a trip to Town Center at Cagan’s Crossing, which is two minutes away, just opposite the fantastic SuperWarlmart on Highway 27, north of the junction with the 192. This pretty development is continuin...
Viewed 13 times since 2 January 2010.

Bock the Manatee
Manatees are wonderful, gentle creatures, often called sea cows, which inhabit the waters around Florida. If you are fortunate enough to visit Orlando in the winter season you can visit these lovely animals at Blue Springs, where they over-winter in ...
Viewed 13 times since 31 December 2009.

Annual Events at Celebration
If you have never been to Celebration it really is a Must Do on any Disney holiday even if it is just to stroll around the shops or sit and relax in a rocking chair around the lake. It is situated on the 192 about 4 miles before you reach the 27. Viewed 12 times since 31 December 2009.

Lakeridge Winery Tour
If you enjoy wine and are interested in local wines then a trip to Lakeridge Winery is a very pleasant and informative half day excursion. You will find it by travelling up the SR27 north of Clermont and it is on the left hand side of the roa...
Viewed 14 times since 28 December 2009.

Key West - The Trolley Tour
Whenever we visit a town or city for the first time as tourist we usually take the bus tour to get to know the local area. Our visit to Key West was no exception - we took the Key West Hop on Hop off Trolley Tour. This tour is as its name suggests, a...
Viewed 11 times since 7 November 2009.

Waccasaasa Bay
Waccasaasa Bay Preserve State Park is situated in Cedar Key beween Yankee Town and Cedar Key on the Gulf Coast of Florida. You can trace the history of this park back to the Native American and there are artefacts found here that prove that t...
Viewed 11 times since 6 October 2009.

Daytona Beach -supercharged speed
Daytona Beach is the home to wonderful stretches of sand, backed in parts by 50’s pop culture attractions. However, it is probably associated in most people’s minds with supercharged speed. Daytona’s is still host to one of the last Atlantic ...
Viewed 12 times since 18 August 2009.

Orlando’s Lesser Known Attractions – Part III
Nobody can deny that it is the lure of the big name theme parks, Universal Studios, Magic Kingdom, Sea World and the like, that attracts the vast majority of visitors to the Orlando area. However, the region could not survive on just these few, albei...
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Orlando’s Lesser Known Attractions - Part II
While the big names, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure and Sea World, are the main crowd pullers to the Orlando Metropolitan area, there are also a great many smaller attractions that are well worth a visit if you are holiday...
Viewed 13 times since 1 August 2009.

Kanapaha Botanic Gardens – West Side
Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is situated just to the west of Gainesville a few miles from the intersection of the I75 and US24. After travelling west on SW Archer Road for two miles take a right into SW58th Drive to reach the gardens parking lot. <...
Viewed 12 times since 1 August 2009.

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