We arrived in Tampa round 2 pm and when we wanted to check in our room wasnt ready yet. No problem, cause on the other side of the street there was a mall and we went to Macy's to do some little shoppings. At 3 we were able to check in and we got a nice room. We actually were in a mood for the swimming pool so we spent the rest of the day sunbathing and swimming in a quite hot watered pool.
Afterwards back to our room and when my wife was washing her bikini a giant cockroach appeared in the sink. We are totally not used to these creatures so she gave quite a scream cause she actually had the cockroach in her hand :)
Well with some tools I was able to drown the beast in the toilet and it was quiet in the room again......
At night we had a great dinner (for Martin: a shepherds pie accompanied by a nice glass of Irish beer)
Next day we had planned to to go to St. Petersburg. We had received information that it should be a nice place to visit but once there, we were disappointed a bit. It was a sunday afternoon, but there was no activity at all. The pier was a bit disappointing as well.
We ate some Italian Ice and went back to our hotel.
Next to our hotel we had dinner in T.G.I.Friday and I must say.... it was great. An excellent salad with strawberries and balsamic dressing tasted marvelous and also the fish afterwards was very nice.
Monday I first went to the coin-laundrinette. We took quite some underwear with us but after 2 weeks we almost went out of underwear so ......
That afternoon we drove to Tarpon Springs. Its a little town, where they fish for sponges. The majority of the people who live in Tarpon spring is Greek from origin. It was a quiet peaceful place to be. We had a good (Greek) dinner there and we drove towards our hotel in a touristic way.
Next day we packed, checked out and started our way to the next stop on our journey: Fort Myers beach!

When we arrived our room, again, wasnt ready yet so we changed clothes and went to the swimming pool to relax a bit after driving for several hours. It was a nice resort (https://www.outriggerfmb.com/ ) and we had some nice drinks before we were able to get the keys of our room.

t.b.c.