40 PLACES | SEASIDE

Last month, we took a little road trip to visit my sister-in-law in Alabama.  On the way, we decided to make a weekend pitstop in the panhandle of Florida.  We had never been there before and I wanted to check it out.  It’s a bit of a ride from Tampa (almost 7 hours) but this was the perfect opportunity to go since we were driving to Alabama anyway and it was only about an hour and a half out of the way.

We stayed in Fort Walton Beach but the real reason for heading out that way was because I wanted to go to Seaside, Florida.  I read about it online and it looked like such a cute place to visit.  It’s also where the movie The Truman Show was filmed.  We drove there from our hotel and spent an afternoon checking it out.  It was such a fun little beach town and I loved how quaint and idyllic it was.  The iconic Seaside tower served as the entryway to the beach and spectacular blue-green ocean so I couldn’t resist getting a photo of it:

Seaside has a little town square in the center where all of the shops and restaurants are located.  There’s even a street full of food trucks that were awesome!  I’ll share more on one of the places we ate in a post tomorrow.  There was also a little area called the Seaside Transit Authority where they rent bikes so you can ride around the town.  And, Seaside has it’s own post office that’s probably the cutest post office I’ve ever seen!  Surrounding the town square are tons of beautiful cottages where people were hanging out on their decks and balconies and enjoying the scene.  If I had to do it again, I would love to stay in one of those cottages but I think many of them are better suited for more than 2 people.  It would be a fun place to go with some friends or family to enjoy a beach week or weekend.

Here are some snapshots of our afternoon in Seaside:

Overall, I loved Seaside.  A quaint little place that wasn’t as commercialized as many of the other beach towns we visited in the panhandle.  Such a great place to just relax, eat fun food and enjoy the beach!