Arriving from Germany on my October 2022 trip to the Florida Weird Al Yankovic shows, I needed a hotel close to the Hertz in Tampa station I wanted to pick up my rental car from the next day. With the…
Riding the TECO Line Streetcar in Tampa
Even though people typically think that I am an aviation nerd “only”, I am in general very interested in any kind of public transport systems. I especially love to explore rail-driven transport, regardless if they are trams/streetcars, mountain rails or…
Congo River (Adventure) Golf Clearwater
After I did a review of Mini Golf at Walt Disney World in Orlando in late 2018, I received quite a lot of good feedback. People especially liked that I described the quality of the course as such, i.e. where…
Sleep Inn & Suites Tampa South
I am typically a Hilton Hotels guy – this is also the reason why most of the hotels I visited on my October 2022 trip to Florida have been driven by this brand. However, for the very last night in…
Five Weird Al Yankovic Shows in Florida – Some Concert Pictures
During the second week of October 2022, I have been tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic on five stages of his The Unfortunate Return Of The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. I have been an “ordinary” paying fan with tickets, but still…
Henry B. Plant Museum Tampa
In 1891, Henry B. Plant founded the Tampa Bay Hotel. Nowadays, the National Historic Landmark in central Tampa is no longer serving as an accommodation. However, a part of the majestic building is still reminding of the visionary founder and…
Tarpon Springs (Florida) – The Sponge City
While the key reason of my trip to Tarpon Springs, Florida, was the amazing Replay Amusement Museum, the village is in fact known for another product: sponge. The roots of the local sponge industry is already dated back to the…
Replay Amusement Museum (Tarpon Springs – Florida)
The city of Tarpon Springs on the Nothern edge of the Tampa Bay area is famous for sponge fishing. Gamers and arcade enthusiasts, however, do their pilgrimage to Replay Amusement Museum, which hosts old pinball as well as video game…