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Orlando, FL: the Hub of Multicultural Amusement

Orlando, Florida is centrally located in Florida and is home to Walt Disney World, Universal Studios,

Orlando, FL:  the Hub of Multicultural Amusement

Busch Gardens and SeaWorld just to start.  Cape Canaveral which is the home of the Space Shuttle is not too far away on Florida’s space coast.  Surrounding areas such as Winter Haven and Kissimmee are home to winter training camps for many major league baseball teams.  So in essence there is something for everyone to do young and old alike.

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5 Ways To Avoid Embarassing Cultural Mishaps

5 Ways To Avoid Embarassing Cultural Mishaps

Until lately I liked to think that, as a seasoned traveler, my days of cultural misunderstandings were a thing of the past.

After all, I??™m clever enough to call it the ???loo??? when asking a London waiter for the washroom, brave enough to use my elbows like every other shopper in a crowded German department store and patient enough to accept that everything moves a little slower during a Spanish afternoon.

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