We got up and booked in for an extra night as the rooms were clean and comfy. We were surprised how cheap Orlando was, a far cry from the hiked up tourist prices of London. We then headed over to Universal studios where I got completely over excited by the Harry Potter World. I WAS IN HOGSMEDE!!! We had a go on some of the rides - the broomstick ride complete with 3D screens left me feeling genuinely motion sick, so we headed in to the Three Hogs Head pub for som...

After a play with the bambinos and quick photo op withe the family we headed off with Gainsville as a detination. Thanks to being so refreshed from the hospitality of the Middletons the drive went really quickly and we whilst eating our picnic at the Georgia/Florida border we decided to push on all the way to Orlando instead. We also picked up some brochures for he many tourist attractions around Orlando to get an idea of what we wanted to do and how much it was ...

A lovely lie in we eventually got ourselves out of bed and headed downstairs for breakfast and some planning for our route down to Florida the next day. We then set off for downtown to explore the city. We spent the afternoon exploring the Georgia Aquarium, the largest in the world. Got nice and close to some otters, penguins and weirdly some mermaids during a very Disney and very American show involving dolphins, mermaids and pirates. As you do. We got a frien...

We had a nice night in a comfy big bed, catching up on a bi of Duck Dynasty which became a slight motel obsession of ours! The next day we headed to the F. Scott Fitzgerald house in Montgomery which he shared with Zelda. I obviously had a literary geek out at the first editions of The Great Gatsby, tender is the night and just generally soaking n all the Fitzgerald genius and ambience. We then headed to the Civil Rights Memorial centre, where we heard first hand ...

Up and on the road we knew we had a couple of heavy days ahead of us. We started in Birmingham, also known for a long time as Bombingham due to the violence which erupted during the Civil Rights Movement. We visited the Civil Rights Institute which is situated across the road from the 16th Street Baptist Church where on on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism a bomb was detonated as a group of children met for the sermon entitled "...