The best thing about traveling is that sometimes you have incredible experiences without having anticipated them Last Monday evening, I logged on to the Kennedy Space Center site in Cape Canaveral, which we visited the next day. The purpose of this connection is quite simple: to see if I can get cheaper tickets online than on site So I discover completely by chance that on Wednesday (the day after our visit), there is a rocket launch planned to put a GPS satellite into orbit. This launch is organized by the company United Launch Alliance (ULA). Ouahou !!!! It seems so crazy to watch a rocket launch that I didn’t even…

This article is part of a series of articles on our road trip to Florida. If you haven’t done so, read the previous notebook here. Program Day 11: Leave Orlando for the Kennedy Space Center Day 12: Return the next day to attend a “rocket launch”: placing a satellite in orbit at 9am. Drive to Hollywood Day 13: Swimming in Hollywood Beach. Return the car to the Miami airport. Departure for Colombia Day 11: Kennedy Space Center The visit of this center is very important for JB who has been talking about it for months. The day before, I ask him to organize the visit because the conquest of space…

If the travel diary to Disney parks is in vlog format (read more here), I absolutely want to show you the Universal park we visited on the blog. It is the park we preferred among the 3 theme parks in Orlando. I will explain why. Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary This isn’t the first time we visit a Universal park, we went to Universal Studios in Singapore (with very few tourists) and liked it very much, even if the park seemed small to us. I don’t know why we missed the one in Osaka but as we will go back there next year,…

When we spent a day at Hollywood Studios in Orlando, we passed a restaurant that replicates the American Drive In experience: the famous open-air movie theaters where you can watch a screening while sitting in your own car The wait was too long for us to eat in this restaurant but it gave us the idea to try to live this typically American experience in a much more authentic way by going to a real drive-in The drive-in is a true symbol of the American way of life and in particular of their adoration for cars. These open-air cinemas had their heyday in the 1960s. They are gradually disappearing: there…

This article is part of our road trip to Florida. Read previous episodes here and here We plan to spend 3 days in the amusement parks in Orlando but to chain the 3 in one go would have been too tiring. So we choose to start with a Disney park then to leave 2 days in excursion to recover. But to leave where? Note: For once, the Disney parks travel diary will only be in vlog form, I invite you to see the YouTube video here, and the practical guide here. Part 1: Travel Diary Part2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary While surfing on Pinterest, I came across this…

If you didn’t, read the 1st part of the roadtrip here Program Day 4: Departure from our hotel in Homestead. Boat tour to Everglades. Visit of Naples, Sanibel Island and Captiva Island. Night at Fort Myers Day 5: Visit of the Ringling museum. Siesta Key Beach & Lido Key Beach. Night in Sarasota Day 6: Visit the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. Night in Orlando. Part 1: Travel Diary Part2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary As I told you, this roadtrip is under the sign of the miracle so we will have many surprises on the road. Day 4 After 3 days in the Keys, we came back to…

This article marks the beginning of the series of travel diaries for our road trip to Florida. Stay tuned because a lot of surprises are waiting for you. Part 1: Travel Diary Part2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary Today is our last day in Miami Beach. Before leaving on a road trip, we gather all our winter clothes and computer equipment in a suitcase and leave it in a locker. This will be safer than leaving them unattended in the trunk of the car during our visits (read more about the lockers available all over the world here). It’s a good choice finally because not only that makes us…

Today, I’ll take you to visit the top attractions in Miami (it’s not the same as Miami Beach we’ve talked about here and there). We paid for a guided tour which includes a bus stop and a 1h30 boat ride. The whole thing lasts 4 hours. For 40$ per person. This travel diary exists both in video version on YouTube and in blog version. The blog version is obviously more detailed, because I haven’t had fun doing the voice-over yet 😀 Part 1: Travel Diary Part2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary A bus comes to pick us up and drop us off in front of another big bus. We…