Love downtown Dade City. Quaint, small town feel and have shops, restaurants and now their own…read moreBrewery!!

Downtown Dade City Main Street is a cute quaint downtown city that is known for antique lovers…read more They have quite a bit of antique shops, gift shops, a dog store, jewelry store, AT&T store to name a few. The majority of these stores are locally owned, and that's a good reason I love it here. If anyone has ever watched and loved the show Ghost Whisperer, this downtown reminds me of it always. In the center is the typical square with the beautiful Pasco County Courthouse. There are quite of restaurants in the area including Matter of Taste, The Garden Cafe, Rebecca's At City Market formally known as City Market Bistro, Kafe Kokopelli, and Del Carmen's Mexican just to name a few. If you want eclectic and different, I suggest you try Kafe Kokopelli for dinner. There are often different events going on. The last one I went to was the Xmas Parade. They also had a Xmas Walk, and a Car Show. Check it the Dade City Events Page.

A lot of great vendors and we had perfect weather today. We managed to get a good parking spot -…read morebest reason for going early. The craft fair (Fiesta in the Park) at Lake Eola has lower prices. One vendor even admitted they raise their prices for mount Dora. But there were a lot of vendors with lots of great crafts Best kettle corn I e had in years

Will NEVER spend another dollar in this town again! We took our Therapy Dog to the Craft Fair with…read moreus for having a Certified Therapy Dog, training is never over and felt this would be perfect environment to have him around a lot of people and distractions for Therapy Dogs need to be able to ignore distractions. Therapy Dogs are Not Service dogs, so they have to special access that a service dog has, in fact a Therapy Dog is used to provide emotional support to OTHERS not it's owner. The police told us to leave for dogs are not welcome in Mt Dora. Rude ass police officer that didn't have an ounce of tact in his veins. He suggested that it could be dangerous if someone stepped on our dog. Are you kidding me? We've had our dog all around downtown Orlando and Winter Park, which are both dog friendly. He's been in airports, city buses, hospitals, retirement homes and many many other "more dangerous" environments than Mt Dora. This town is NOT a dog friendly town and I wouldn't spend another dollar in this town or any business in this town again. The officer said it's posted on their site: no dogs. Well if you didn't look up their site to decide if you wanted to drive 50 miles to attend their craft show, I guess you just drove 100 miles round trip for no reason!

My first time on the trail. Rode my bike several miles on the west end from East Lake Oaks…read moresubdivision. LOVED IT! Will be going further east in a day or so. Beautiful trail, lots of shade, bridges, and wide in most parts to pass walkers, etc.

One of my favorite running trails in the area. Very clean and maintained. My fiancé come here to…read morerun a few miles, bike or bring the dog to the park. They have a dog park, several baseball fields, children's park and plenty of space for running and cycling. There are plenty of poop stations along the way which makes it a perfect spot for a long walk with your pup. The trail is open sunrise to sunset and offers beautiful views of the Lake Tarpon Canal.

I've heard friends rave about this place and finally got the chance to check it out! It's on a Main…read moreStreet in downtown Dade City. Street parking was available and easy to find on a Saturday night at 6pm. They do not take reservations but we thankfully were able to be seated immediately and seemed to have beat the crowd that came after us. Our waiter was very attentive and friendly. He checked on us, refilled our water, and made sure our experience was great! I started off with a Passionfruit Martini. This was delicious and refreshing. We shared the Ipomodori Verdi Fritti, which are fried green tomatoes topped with burrata, goat cheese, tzatziki sauce, and a balsamic glaze. Very good and flavorful! The breading was not thick and it was perfect! For my entree I ordered the Shrimp Champagne, which is shrimp, tomatoes, champagne, roasted garlic cream, and spinach with a fettuccine pasta topped with a crostini. This was amazing! Absolutely fantastic! Perfect for at least 2-3 meals for me. We were also served complimentary bread and oil and herb dip. Very good! Would definitely come back and recommend! Quite a few items on the menu sounded delicious and made it hard to choose!

This is a hidden gem in Dade City. Not where I expected to find a very good Italian restaurant…read more Everything was excellent. The service, the ambiance and especially the food. We can't wait to go back!

It's been a long time since we have gone to Clearwater's July 4th fireworks…read more Fast forward to now and so many changes and updates have been made to Coachman Park. And Now they have the Sound which is where they have concerts. I did see that they did a lot of nice work to the park but I need to see it during the day. Fireworks were great here. At first, it was slow and then it got better and the music was the best out of all the firework shows we have been to. Glad we made it and were also lucky with parking which for once in our life was free.

They advertised and talked about how amazing Clearwater fireworks were, so my family and I had to…read moresee them for ourselves. At midnight there were people all over the beach waiting for these amazing fireworks show and there was nothing! There was no celebration of fireworks to bring in the New Year. Nothing but a complete waste of time and a complete disappointment!!

The Bowling Ball House in Safety Harbor is one of the wildest, most chaotic, and unforgettable…read morethings you'll ever come across hands down a five-star experience just for the sheer creativity and madness of it. This place is packed with personality from every angle. Bowling balls are everywhere stacked, lined, and worked into the yard in ways that make you stop and stare. It feels like someone took a simple idea and just ran completely wild with it in the best way possible. Then you start noticing all the unexpected details: random statues scattered throughout the property, SpongeBob characters popping up in places you wouldn't expect, and CDs hanging from strings that catch the light and move with the breeze. It's like stepping into a fully DIY art installation where anything goes and more is more. What makes it so great is that nothing about it feels normal or restrained. It's loud, weird, colorful, and totally unique. Every time you look around, you notice something you didn't see before, which makes it feel like the house keeps changing as you explore it. Overall, the Bowling Ball House is pure creative chaos in the best way possible. It's fun, bizarre, and completely unforgettable a true local landmark that proves art doesn't have to make sense to be amazing.

Like stepping back in time. Being in the Hippy era. Cool house and decorations. Bowling balls,…read moremermaid, lots of decorations on the trees. Great for taking pictures. We didn't know you could go inside but someone later told us you could. Not sure but I bet it would be cool.

Ok, it is very small. I'd say about 10 booths total. There were 2 food /bev trucks. Parking is free…read moreand i felt it was worth the trip to check it out. There was live music there that was nice. If you like kitschy retro stuff, you will enjoy this. They had damn good avocado toast for $4... boba horchata drink was $5 ( I'd say it was 32oz. Huge). Outside the booths were nicely priced. There is a bldg next door that sold cute retro old stuff ... pricy af. But the fair had a unite a friendly cheerful group of vendors. Someone selling cute art stationary, Honey booth , The Darling Market sold some attractive clothing (new/modern) . A gentleman there sold lovely wooden kitchen spoons. The retro booths had the best nicest retro clothes . Such colors and styles. Very cool. Also sold retro basket handbags, retro sugar/flower containers, precious little vases that made me giddy. (Pardon me!) generally speaking there wasn't much for guys here except some grub & bevs & music. 35 minutes well spent.

Great experience for the kids and adults! There was a food truck on site, which was helpful (and…read moredelicious)! The volunteers were all so nice. The ride lasted about 20 minutes, and there is a museum to look at before or after. The park also has a playground, but we didn't get to check it out due to rain. You could make a whole morning of this event and a full day if you explore the whole park!

On my first visit to CP & G Railroad my daughter and I had an absolutely perfect day. There is…read morenothing I would've added or changed about the experience. So, I rated it as such. But a return visit, on Easter, showed that I sort of jumped the track a little. Things were not executed nearly as flawlessly on the second go round and some underlying warts were exposed. The reason I returned to the railroad during Easter weekend is because I remembered the owner of the railroad really talking it up at Christmas time. He told those of us that were there that on the Saturday of Easter weekend he takes the trains out, stops at a designated spot and lets the kids get off the train to hunt for eggs. At the end of that, they return to the station and can have their pictures taken with the Easter Bunny. It sounded like a cool experience. So we returned. The first thing we noticed when we checked in was that there were a lot of people here for the trains. It was like three or four times the size of the Christmas crowd. My wife and I registered our daughter, put on our arm bands and then went to stand in line at the station. Here we waited. And waited. And waited some more. After about twenty minutes in line one of the volunteers got a brilliant idea to change the way the line moved so that people would be forced to go through the train station building. This is where the Easter Bunny was. It was a great idea, everyone could now get their picture with the Easter Bunny while waiting in line. About the time we exited the building, which meant we were just a train or two away from finally getting on, another volunteer came along and took the chain down that was redirecting the line. This meant that some people decided they didn't want to go through the building and walked through the area where the chain had been removed. This cut about fifteen minutes off their wait time. Of course the people who were coming out of the building were pretty miffed that these people were allowed to cut and weren't forced to go through the building. An argument ensued between volunteers and people waiting to get on the trains. Eventually it was sorted out but the man who runs the trains was not happy. He could be seen yelling at one of the volunteers. After a thirty to forty-five minute wait, we were finally able to get on a train. The egg hunt was fun for my daughter. She loved finding them, picking them up and shaking them. Unfortunately, because of the long lines and the people waiting to ride, the conductor rushed us quickly through the hunt. My daughter had to just grab a bunch of the eggs and open them later. When we returned to the train, we realized that someone had taken our seats. That meant that my wife and I had to sit apart on the ride back. One of the cool things about the railroad is that you are allowed to ride all day long. At Christmas my daughter and I took three trips around. Because of the wait, we only rode the Easter train once. A big disappointment considering how far we had driven to ride the trains. The day can be summed up perfectly by the fact that as we departed from our train and moved off to the side so my daughter could open the eggs she collected the train we had just gotten off of jumped the tracks. It wasn't a big deal, no on was hurt and it was fixed in a few seconds, but it just sort of symbolized the fact that the CP & G Railroad is not yet ready for the big crowds that Easter brought. Hopefully they can figure something out before the Fourth of July trains get rolling.

Continuing on with the mural tour is another favorite, Slice of Happiness. It is the newest mural…read moreto downtown and it was commissioned by the Lake Wales Main Street, Inc. and sponsored by Florida Natural's Growers and its Members, and The Ellis Family. The mural is 25 feet x 97 feet. It is the work of native Lakeland artist Gillian Fazio. Fazio received her Bachelors' Degree in Fine Art from the University of Florida in the Spring of 2017. About the mural Fazio has said "the butterflies reference a re-birth and new life. The mural is a nice indicator of what is happening in downtown Lake Wales. Kudos to Lake Wales Main Street and the community leaders for investing in downtown. The mural is an indicator that there are awesome things coming to Lake Wales." Slice of Happiness features Florida oranges and Fazio's signature butterflies. The mural fits in with Lake Wales theme, a city in a garden. I love the subject and bright colors. It makes the perfect backdrop for photos.

Beautiful mural that you can't miss if you're visiting Lake Wales. It really captures the Florida…read morevibes and makes for a great Insta shot. We had bookmarked it and were in the process of looking around for it, when we just walked right by. It's hard to miss if you just wander around the small downtown area for a bit. I love seeing public art like this all over Florida!