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I love Disney… there isn’t really much more to add here, I could end this blog right now and it would explain a large portion of my personality.

Like a lot of children I grew up watching Disney movies and was lucky enough for my family to make a visit to Walt Disney World in Florida in the spring of 1992. We visited all of the main Disney parks including Magic Kingdom, Epcot Centre, and MGM Studios (now known as Walt Disney Studios), we also visited Universal Studios, Busch Gardens, Seaworld (if the 7 year old me had seen Blackfish I’m sure I wouldn’t have visited), and a few other Florida landmarks that escape me.

My first experience of the Disney theme parks happened when I was 7 years old so no doubt is now seen through rose-tinted glasses but I’m confident that when I do make a return to Florida my experience will be just as magical, and will be the start of an annual pilgrimage for someone who finds everything Disney to be something magical.

Although it’s been 23 years since that epic holiday, I’ve filled the gap by visiting Disneyland Resort Paris on multiple occasions, in fact next month for our wedding anniversary myself and my gorgeous wife Dianne (see her blog at http://www.dianne-stone.co.uk if she ever gets round to posting to it!) will be celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary at Disneyland Paris staying at Sequoia Lodge which in the lead up to Christmas is probably one of the best hotels to stay at with its mountain lodge theme.

This will be my 10th time at Disneyland Paris, and next year we are planning to visit Walt Disney World, we also want to make a visit to Disneyland, Anaheim (earlier in this blog you’ll see we drove Route 66 but for reasons which now allude me we didn’t visit the original Disney park and opted for the Warner Brothers Studio Tour instead!).

This upcoming trip to Disney comes at a time when Disneyland Paris is going through a transformation after being brought under tighter control by the Disney Corporation and is currently undergoing a massive refurbishment programme to update the rides for their 25th anniversary. I’m particularly excited about this as I often point out to my wife on our visits the lack of maintenance in this park that doesn’t ‘adhere’ to the Disney standards I become accustomed to in Florida in the early 90’s.