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Florida Holiday Tips - 7 Must-See Sights
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Jan 29, 2025
Join me (Gary Bembridge of TipsForTravellers.com) as I share my tips on the seven must-see sights in Florida "The Sunshine State" beyond the Orlando Theme Parks. Inspiration and advice for travellers considering travelling here. These include St Augustine, Kennedy Space Center, Miami South Beach, Key West, Everglades, Edison and Ford Winter Estates and Clearwater Beach. I talk about how to see these including fly-drive or going on a tour like Titan Travel's "Best of Florida" tour like I did: http://bit.ly/TitanFlorida For more tips for travellers: - visit the site: http://www.tipsfortravellers.com - follow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge - sign up to the monthly tips for travellers newsletter: http://eepurl.com/AUTIX
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hi I'm Gary bambridge from tipsfor
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travelers.com and today I want to share
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with you some tips on visiting Florida
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the Sunshine State many people when they
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think of Florida think of Orlando and
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the theme parks but there's so much more
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to the state than just theme parks so in
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this video I'm going to share with you
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seven great ideas and things to see the
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first of these is St Austine which is
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just a short few hours North of Orlando
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I not expected to find the oldest
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inhabited town in the United States in
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Florida but it is St Augustine is the
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longest permanent settlement dating back
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to the 1570s it's a gorgeous place the
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Highlight is the Castillo Des San Marcus
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Fortress built in the 17th century by
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the Spanish that settled and controlled
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the town there are also grand buildings
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built by wealthy Pioneers like Henry
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Flagler co-founder of Standard Oil that
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now museums like the lightning Museum
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that used to be the Alcazar hotel and
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College the hotel ponon is now Flagler
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College the second must SE side I
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believe in Florida is also a short drive
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from Orlando but this time heading east
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and it's to Cape Canaveral in Cape
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Canaveral is the Magnificent Kennedy
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Space Center it's a fascinating place
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which young old everybody will
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absolutely enjoy so let me tell you a
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little bit more and show you around the
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Kennedy Space
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Center it's in Canaveral and it's a
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fascinating place during the tour of the
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Rocket Garden full of the early American
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space Rockets the guide pointed out that
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the early trips into space were really
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just ballistic missiles with tiny
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cramped capsules for astronauts perched
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on top you can get up close to the
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actual Atlanta space shuttle that went
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into space 33 times head out to the
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launch pads and walk under a vast satin
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five rocket of the type used to power
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the Apollo missions to the Moon you can
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also meet a real astronaut and here are
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NASA's preparing to take man all the way
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to Mars and
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back so my third tip is heading further
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south in Florida and this time it's down
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to Miami if you're visiting Miami though
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the place to go is Miami South Beach and
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the AR Deco district is absolutely
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magnificent and very unique let me show
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you around and explain a little bit more
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why I think that's the third great thing
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to do in Florida strolling around the
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beautifully preserved Art Deco district
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along ocean Drive Miami South Beach it's
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really hard to believe that before the
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1980s it was a Shabby and aerating area
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a threat from developers mostly
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inhabited by poor fixed income
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pensioners drug dealers and displaced
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Cubans it was so bad that the Miami Vice
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TV show used it often as the location
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inspiration for many of its crime
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storylines focused on drug dealers and
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thugs it all changed after Barbara
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Capitan and her supporters succeeded in
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getting almost a square mile of South
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Beach on the National register of
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historic places it developed from there
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to what it is today a mecha for hip bars
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restaurants and a magnet for Beautiful
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People to congregate in
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PR so after visiting Miami South Beach
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it's further south again down through
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the beautiful Florida Keys to Key West
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it's a very eclectic City it's very
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quirky it's very unusual but it's great
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fun so let me show you around kest and
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show you why this for me is another must
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SE in Florida
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flid Ernest Hemingway and xusa President
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Harry Truman fell in love with Key West
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and had homes there that you can now
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tour however Key West also has the
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iconic marker for the southernmost point
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of the United States that every visitor
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lines up to take their picture with Cuba
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is just 90 Mi away from there eclectic
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vibrant and sometimes eccentric the old
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town is full of distinctive wooden
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buildings busy bars and diverse
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restaurants along with some unusual
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museums such as a shipwreck museum the
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Tells the story of how residents of the
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Town became wealthy from the many ships
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that floundered on the coral reef
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surrounding the area so after visiting
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Key West it's back through the Florida
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Keys up to the Everglades this is a very
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unique part of the world very marshy
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very wet and it's a chance to see
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aligators snakes and so much more it's
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really really good fun and let me show
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you why I think it's another musty place
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to go in
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Florida alligators and snakes there's
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nothing like an encounter with the a few
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scary creatures to make for a thrilling
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day you can see them up close at the
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Everglade safari park by zooming through
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the Everglades on a thrilling airboat in
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the wild before watching a show
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featuring massive alligators a baby one
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and a fearsome
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snake so after visiting the Everglades I
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would keep heading up the West Coast of
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Florida through Cape Coral which is very
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beautiful but on to the Fort Meers
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district and here you'll find something
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very unique Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
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had their winter Estates here and these
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are beautiful houses beautiful grounds
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and they give you not only a great
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insight into the men themselves but also
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life at the turn of the century uh then
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that's the 1900s let's me show you
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around the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford
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States and show you why I think this is
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again another mustsee if you're visiting
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Florida the prolific inventor Thomas
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Edison and car magnet Henry Ford were
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great friends and eventually owned
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magnificent winter houses next to each
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other close to Fort m in Florida at the
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time Edison bought the land the location
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was remote and difficult to reach he set
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up Laboratories and worked out of here
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on many of his inventions including how
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to make the United States
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self-sufficient in rubber Ford meanwhile
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used the house to be close to his friend
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on his birthday and enjoy time relaxing
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with the man the estate and houses are
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beautifully maintained and offer a
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fascinating insight into these two
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American Business icons and so after
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visiting the Thomas Edison and Henry 40
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states keep heading up the west coast
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and you'll eventually get to Clear Water
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Beach it's a very beautiful part of
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Florida and has some of the most
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beautiful beaches in the world big long
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white stretches of sand lots to do as a
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tourists including great sunset cruises
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so let me show you a little bit of the
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beaches show you some of the Sunset
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Cruise and tell you about why I think
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Clear Water Beach is another mustsee
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attraction and sight to see in Florida
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long stretches of sparkling white sand
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with a warm welcoming ocean have made
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the area popular for snowbirds fleeing
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the harsher winters further north in the
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United States young people head here for
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Rowdy spring B parties and families look
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for a sunny and affordable vacation
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resort rows of condominums and hotels
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follow the line of the beaches while set
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back behind them are bars and
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restaurants offering a diverse range of
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food for all budgets and so there you
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have it those are my seven mustsee
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attractions and sites in Florida if
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you're going there go beyond the theme
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parks and see so much more of Florida
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and focus on those seven things and
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you'll have a great and very diverse
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experience now how do you do it well
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there's a couple of ways you can do it
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first of all you could simply go on a
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sort of a fly dry vacation fly into
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Orlando you can see the various themed
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Parks jump in the car and then basically
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do it's pretty much a circuit around
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those seven sites or you could go on an
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on some sort of organized tour so for
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example uh Titan travel in the UK they
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have a tour called The Best of Florida
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which takes you around all of those
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sites and so much more so remember those
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are some tips some advice and hopefully
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some inspiration for visiting Florida
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remember for more tips and advice you
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can sign up for the YouTube channel the
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trip films Channel and of course visit
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the site at tips for travelers.com
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