Nice travelogue so far. Are you only going to be in NY?

hello,
i am now in Clearwater Florida i have been having problems getting an internet conection. i will finish the log as soon as i get home. I am flying back to cold England tomorow night.

Hello all,
thought i better finish a bit more of the travelogue.

Haven't been around for ages due to work and also a little holiday to Euro Disney where i proposed to my now Fiance :D

Any way, i was going to write about Clearwater.

After New York (which was excellent) we went to Clearwater Florida.
We stayed at the Hilton Clearwater, lovely hotel. Our room was excellent, even though we didn't get the sea view rooms. Our room ovelooked the harbour, which was a better view i thought. We did have the chance to sit on the balcony and watch the sun set into the sea one night as my parents had done there usuall complaining bit as they were staying for 3 weeks and got moved to a sea view, so we stole the balcony one evening.

The hotel was clean and was also in the process of being renovated, but it didn't cause any problems. It was a very popular place for weddings (trying to get Becky, the other half, to go somewhere like that for the wedding but she is having none of it) and also business meetings.

2 nice pools and a hot tub, right on the beach, with a fairly cheap bar.

It was also only a couple of minutes walk from the pier and that was a good place to watch for dolphins :D There where some really good places to eat in Clearwater, we went to the same place for breakfast most days, a little family run cafe that done a full american breafast for about $4. There is plenty of choice for the evenings, including boat trip dinners.

We rented 3 cars so that we could all travel ( their was 9 of us in all, my sister and her family drove accross after a week in Disney, my parents cam with us from NY, but then went on to Chicago). We drove to Tampa Springs which was fantastic, excellent Greek cooking, cheap boat trips with plenty of dolphins, my 2 half Greek neices loved it and it reminded me of living in Greece.

We got some great deals out shopping at the malls and outlet shops.

Our favourite place we found for diner was "smokey bones" they do the best ribs in smokey sauce.

Towards the end of the holiday we went to Busch Gardens, this was really good fun and there was almost no ques for anything. If you go i advise you to buy a refilable drink holder, it costs about $5 and you can fill it up for about $1 a go.
Then came the best bit of all Discovery Cove, i could live at this place given half a chance. They have got a a huge swimming area that is full of marine life, rays, angel fish, clown fish and loads more. Then we got to swim with the dolphins, you go in groups of about 5 and you get to actually hold on to them and they pull you along, it was one of those things that you remember for ever.

Well that was pretty much it in America, hopefully i will go back again this year, i might have a look for a house out there if the dollay gets any weaker :lol: