Great Places to Enjoy Right Here in Your Hometown

By Peg Ashbrock
Summer is the best time to play tourist in your home town. It’s the time to explore places that you’ve never been, and find out just why so many of your family and friends like to visit. But I’ll bet there are places right here in your hometown that you’ve never checked out. What are you waiting for-get out and explore!

Exploring Downtown

Start at Cincinnati’s front door, Fountain Square, with activities day and night. Marvel at the restored Tyler Davidson Fountain and let the kids chase a few pigeons. Fountain Square is also the starting point of the Queen City Tour, those purple signs that lead you all over the city exploring. (more…)

July 24 Update*****

Don’t let Summer slip away! try some of these great places before schools starts and everyone’s schedules get too crazy!

Play Tourist For Free

By Peg Ashbrock

It’s going to be another long hot summer and in just a few weeks the kids will be saying there’s nothing to do. Well, we’ve done the legwork for you and found 10 absolutely free places to go that won’t cost you a dime. Check our website, www.intouchzine.com for more local places to visit.

 

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Newport Aquarium, One Penguin Way, Newport. 859-815-1432. Every morning at 9: 15 a.m. (Memorial Day- Labor Day) catch the Penguin Parade of African Blackfoot Penguins up close and personal in their own personal Penguin Mobile. One lucky child gets to be the parade leader. Kids can ask the penguin’s trainers all those questions that kids love to ask and you don’t know the answers to. (more…)