Islands of Adventure and Harry Potter World WARNING!! Serious spoiler info in this blog...do not read if you dont want to know every detail of the Harry Potter World rides and the rest of the park!!! After a lovely night's sleep in a proper bed we got up early and finally had our long awaited shower!! Feeling refreshed, if still sore from the sunburn, we walked back to Universal to arrive there just after opening time (9am) and entered the Islands of Adven...

Tickets and Arabian Nights After another uncomfortably hot night in Bertha we resolved that today would be about getting the Air Con fixed if possible and finding cheap tickets for Harry Potter World. So after asking the rest stop attendant for directions to a local garage we set off. We found a garage in the general area he had suggested but unfortunately they didnt have time to look at Bertha but sent us to another garage down the road. This was a Shell garag...

Driving throught the Everglades. Not a very exciting day today really, we drove from the rest stop into the Everglades for a couple of hundred miles eventually reaching Busch Gardens where we stopped to get some food at IHOP! The road was very long, very hot and very straight, there was a river or canal that ran alongside it most of the time that helped to provide some entertainment as there were various birds sitting along the edge, herons, pelicans, cranes et...

Miami Beach and Timbalive. We arrived at Miami Beach about 9am just as they were putting the deckchairs out. So being some of the first there we quickly claimed a couple for ourselves. And settled down for a nice few hours sleep having had hardly any the previous 2 nights due to the heat. We woke up around midday and headed into the water for a quick swim. The sea was almost at bath temperature, and I later heard on the lifeguards radio that it was at 86 degr...

Miami style salsa? After a quick trip to the tourist information at the rest stop to pick up a map and some information we set off again. As we drove further into Florida we found that palm trees started to creep their way into the hedgerows at the side of the road. The further south we went the more palm trees until eventually that's all there is. After several more hours driving we arrived in Miami at about 7pm and headed straight for Hollywood (not that on...