Ybor City Tampa

Hey everyone! Long time no blog. We have just spent the week in Tampa, Florida where we spent two days at Busch Gardens theme park. Not much else to do there but we will tell you what we did anyways. We experienced very tropical hot and humid weather and have never heard or seen so much thunder and lightning.

Day 1

Arrived from …

Oggi come previsto siamo andati alla Festa Italiana al quartiere Ybor di Tampa. Matteo ha passato una notte un po' preoccupante con un po' di febbre, ma in fine tutto bene. Quando si è svegliato alle 11h30 ha questo subito da mangiare, quindi tutto ok.

L'evento era molto più grande di quello che ci aspettavamo. Però sempre tipico italo- …

Hey everyone! Long time no blog. We have just spent the week in Tampa, Florida where we spent two days at Busch Gardens theme park.  Not much else to do there but we will tell you what we did anyways.  We experienced very tropical hot and ...

...   We decided to have a day away from the beaches today and give our skin a little rest. We headed to Ybor City in downtown Tampa, which is more of a historical district with old buildings. Here I did have a little luck shopping and it was nice ...

... . Wir schwangen uns also auf die hosteleigenen Drahtesel. Mit unseren coolen Retrobikes ging es bei frischem Fahrtwind zur "Ybor City". Dieses historische kubanische Viertel ist bekannt für sein geschäftiges Treiben. Davon können wir im nachhinein nur ...

... , but she seemed to get better. We both went to sleep after a while. The next day we went downtown, to the aquarium and to Ybor City, which is the historic part of town. We got tired really early, which was great because we had to get up at 4:00am this ...

... it was later there was still some sunlight to go and walk along the streets of Ybor City, to the north of the city of Tampa. Ybor City seemed very friendly to me. You could walk the streets among many other people -at least today and in this suburb; ...

... the bridge to check out one of the handful of Argentine Restaurants, touting the allmighty Parillada, and so El Puerto in Ybor City became our destination. Located off the main Ybor drag, more in a newly renovated residential area, the building itself ...

We visited the historic part of Tampa known as Ybor City, where we enjoyed the sights, great Cuban sandwiches, and the big parade. The next day was off to the first bowl game of the new year. The fighting birds (Gamecocks) were entirely outclassed ...

... was about Bali. Short flight about 1.5 hours...deboard then get luggage and head to the hotel. Which is really nice.  We head to Ybor City to meet Tim and get some food. Our Taxi driver is some older guy from Jersey who I must say has a worse mouth ...

... terraces, art exhibits and theaters.  Channelside goes eastward towards the cruise ships, marine museum, history center, the aquarium and Ybor City – a historic landmark. Ybor Centro – At one time, there were 4000 people here ...

... 30am - drive to the hotel - our room won't be ready until 3. After much discussion we decide to take a taxi downtown to Ybor City, the Cuban neighborhood and take it from there......we end up at the famous 'Columbia' for lunch - a Spanish/Cuban ...