World Showcase: DestiNations Discovered

Posted on by Ian C.

A different visit to Epcot World Showcase today, with much of it before the main rush of tourists – so I took lots of photos of empty space, a rare sight at Disney!

This tour was quite fascinating; in many ways it’s “just a walk around World Showcase”, but being guided and learning of details and sights we’d never previously noticed, made for a very different visit. Finishing with a bonus of Soarin’ is nice, too!

We went back stage a few times, but no pictures allowed there
Finally, 11am and here comes everyone else!

Epcot with friends

Posted on by Ian C.

Our friends Pedro & Laura (and their son Christian) are visiting us and Disney World, and we joined them at Epcot today for lunch in Germany, various rides including Soarin, Test Track, and Frozen (eventually!); we stayed right through to fireworks too!

We also “flew” on Butterflies, as well as taking some photos of them:

Epcot Flower & Garden 2017, first visit

Posted on by Ian C.

We tried to “beat the rush” and visited Epcot today rather than this weekend, with this years Flower & Garden festival just started:

 

There’s a lot of Butterfly theming this year:

Including some “chalk art” on the ground which had people standing / posing on it for photographs. Amazing to look at the side image and the “proper” front image – no doubt those people would seem to be flying!

 

It’s getting harder every year to tell the difference between the Flower & Garden Festival, and the Food & Wine event – there were food / drink stalls all around World Showcase, and long queues at a few of them.