Belém, May 2024
Forte do Castelo
Catedral da Sé
Mangal das Garças
Farol de Belém
Belém, May 2024
In-flight, May 2025
Just a few photos of yesterday's flight:
Orlando, September 2016
As I wrote in a previous post, despite the main goal of this trip to Florida was to visit the Kennedy Space Center, I spared two extra days to go to the beach. Why wouldn't I do that after an transatlantic crossing heading to Florida?
But... my friend had other ideas and convinced me going to the Universal theme parks. It took a long time to persuade me since I was not attracted, in my idea, to that kind of fun.
We bought tickets to the two contiguous parks of the Universal Orlando Resort: the Universal Studios Florida and the Universal Islands of Adventure.
Although both parks entrance are paid, you can explore the Universal CityWalk for free - there are shops, restaurants and entertainment areas.
We started exploring the Universal Studios Florida first. I didn't take many photos since I was more committed to have fun and enjoy the parks, which was totally a new experience for me. The park was crowded and we only had standard tickets without privileges to priority lanes. So we had to wait in line and make some choices of what we would like to see/experience.
I kept a record of the Rides we were taking but I'm not sure I wrote down them all:
Merritt Island, September 2016
Saturn V was the rocket that sent humans to the Moon. There are only three surplus Saturn V rockets on display that were left over at the end of the Apollo program.
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Saturn V
Saturn V was a three-stage rocket. The first stage (S-I) was powered by five massive F-1 engines;