FLORIDA may be warm all year round but Tampa Bay and its vibrant Latin Quarter are smoking hot. America’s historic Cigar City is one of Florida’s fastest growing regions — with tourists and busines…
A place at the bottom of the pecking order
I didn’t see any strange apparitions but the theatre did have a fabulously eerie atmosphere — ghost hunters will love it. They seem to know it too. A feisty flock approached us, clucking and crowing, when we wandered into their territory, and we beat a hasty retreat. We knew our place at the bottom of the pecking order.We stopped off at Florida’s oldest restaurant, the famous Columbia, which started as a sandwich shop in 1905 but today can seat a mind-boggling 1,700 customers.
A fun way to get around is by streetcar, a heritage “tram” whose carriages are replicas of the ones that travelled the city’s streets in the 1920s. Across the road we had a delicious pit stop at the Oxford Exchange restaurant. Another waterfront hotspot is Sparkman Wharf, a fun place to wander around with its buzzy vibe, trendy bars and new restaurant The Battery — which offers no fewer than 110 different types of whisky.