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Queen Rearing Class

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Join Dick Cryberg for this special QUEEN REARING CLASS!

John's Country Nursery, Inc. 15808 Old State Road, Middlefield, Ohio 44062

Beach Glass Art Class

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Join Delinda Mariani from Stella Art Gallery in Willoughby to learn a little about beach glass and make a beach glass art piece.

Grand River Cellars 5750 Madison Rd., Madison, OH 44057

SPRING OPEN HOUSE

9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Join us for our Annual Spring Open House, May 3-5, 2024!

John's Country Nursery 15808 Old State Road, Middlefield, Ohio 44062

Night Sky Viewing

7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

If skies are clear, observe the night sky through the Oberle telescope and other telescopes spaced out around the plaza. Planetarium presentation if cloudy. No registration required. Wheelchair/stroller accessible. Start times vary; April 5th and 6th program starts at 7PM. April 26th-June 7th programs start at 8PM.  And June 8th and 22nd programs start at 9PM. 

Observatory Park 10610 Clay Street, Montville, OH 44064

Ohio Native Fish Coalition Stream Sampling Event

9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Join the Ohio Chapter of the Native Fish Coalition (NFC) and Geauga Park District for this neat stream sampling event. Together we’ll learn lots about the native fish in our beautiful state and how to identify them, and experience various stream-sampling techniques. Dress to get wet, and bring waders and rubber gloves if you have them, as they will be required for the electrofishing session; other equipment will be provided to those who register. Bring drinking water. Participants are invited to bring lunch to enjoy onsite between the sessions. Directions to the site will be provided to those who register. Registration required. Saturday, May 4, 9 AM-Noon & 1-4 PM

The Holden Arboretum 9550 Sperry Rd., Kirtland, OH 44094

10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Brushes & Lushes on Canvas

Join Dani Klein for her monthly Brushes & Lushes art class! She is an art teacher from Stella’s Art Gallery in Willoughby.

Grand River Cellars Winery and Restaurant 5750 S. Madison Rd., Madison, Ohio 44057

Explore Amish Culture Mini Bus Tour with Amish Wedding Feast - Three Hours Tour in Mesopotamia Ohio

Explore Amish Culture Mini Bus Tour - Three Hours Tour in Mesopotamia Ohio Includes Amish Wedding Feast in an Amish home!

End of Commons General Store 8719 State Rte 534, Mesopotamia, OH 44439

Food & Wine Pairing in the CAVE

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Join us in our exclusive Wine Cave for this popular, educational & informational wine tasting paired with small bites.

Mother's Day Celebration

12:00 am to 11:59 pm

The day will feature entrée and dessert specials and best of all every mother will receive a potted flower to take home with them. 

Destination Geauga #20th Spring Drive It Yourself Tour May 18th 2024

9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Destination Geauga 20th Annual Spring Drive It Yourself Tour 26 stops for the Tour in 2024

Stars & Strides 5K Run and 1M Walk - Veterans Resource Fair

9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Event Information Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024 Race Time: • 10 am start for 5K • 10:15 start for 1 Mile Register Here: Veteran Resource Fair: 9:30 am-12:30 pm Location: Lakeland Community College, H Building Join Lake-Geauga Habitat for Humanity and Lakeland Veterans Center as we honor our local Veterans. The 5K run and 1 mile walk will wind around the Lakeland Community College Campus on Armed Forces Day. After the run, stop by the Veterans Resources Fair with local organizations providing info and resources for Veterans and families. Everyone is welcome!

Lakeland Community College 7777 Clocktower , Kirtland, OH 44094

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Explore Geauga County in Drive-it-Yourself Tour May 9, 2013

Put your foot to the pedal and take in the sights, sounds and tastes of Geauga County Saturday during the Spring Drive-it-Yourself Tour.

Being National Tourism Week, a good way to celebrate could be exploring the nooks and crannies of the county 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., said Lynda Nemeth, spokesperson for the Geauga County Tourism Office.

Her group has mapped out a drive-it-yourself tour with 25 stops at locally owned independent businesses each offering something special from food samples to discount coupons and spring plants to golf rounds.

It’s definitely worth it, said Sandy Pavick, of Newbury Township.

During last year’s tour, she led a group comprised of 13 members of her church, Mayfield United Methodist Church in Chester Township, many of whom live in Eastern Cuyahoga County.

“They had never been to Middlefield before and had definitely never shopped at an Amish store before,” she said. “We ate lunch at the Crossroads Country Cafe and they loved watching an Amish woman prepare their meal.”

She said the tour was a great way to introduce her friends to Geauga County.

“It was great fun to take them to a few places where I regularly shop, such as White House Chocolates and the Middlefield Cheese Co-op,” she said.

Pavick’s group visited 10 of the 25 stops, qualif-ying them for a prize drawing at the conclusion of the tour.

At each stop, they got their tour card stamped along with receiving free samples and discounts on items.

Among the places they visited was a rug shop where they received decorative pins to wear.

“I still see some of the ladies wearing their pins to church,” Pavick said.

At the end of the day, they entered their stamped cards in the drawing and Pavick’s card was pulled for the second place prize.

It was a gift basket worth $375 in items and gift cards from the merchants.

Several items in the basket that stand out were tickets to a play in Madison, a gift card for the Red Maple Inn, a gift card for fresh meat at a meat store and, of course, a quart of locally produced maple syrup.

“It was wonderful,” Pavick said. “I enjoyed the prizes all year and still have one more gift card I need to use before we take the tour this year.”

The tour also benefitted the parti-cipating merchants. Pavick said many of the members of her church have gone back to visit some of the shops.

“They are return customers and have taken their friends there,” she said.

Pavick plans to lead her church group on this year’s tour.

“We’re very excited about it,” she said. “They’ve added some new stops we want to check out. We want to visit the Amish Bakery and Craft stop and have the opportunity to go inside an Amish home for tea and sandwiches.”

This year’s tour features a “Feeding Geauga County’s Economy” theme encouraging participants to shop locally and support local businesses, Nemeth said.

The tour ends at 3 p.m. at Middlefield Market with music by Northern Comfort Band, snacks, a silent auction and the drawing for the gift baskets, which begins at 4 p.m.

Participants must be present to win.

A list of the all the stops and maps are available at tourgeauga.com, by calling the tourism office at 440-632-1538 or at any of the participating locations.

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Saturday, May 14, 2022 (10:00 AM - 3:00 PM) ( EDT )

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Destination Geauga is hosting their Annual Spring Drive It Yourself Tour on May 14th 2022. 

We have 4 Presenting Sponsors. G.A.R, Horizons, Artisan's Corners, The Great Geauga County Fair. and Peddlers Corner. 

We have 25 Stops Kalle Naturals, His Daughter, G.A.R Horizons, Ma & Pa's, The Carriage Trade Boutique, Sirna's Farm Fresh Kitchen, 7 Ladies Tea Room, White House Chocolates, Artisan's Corner, Seldom Seen Farm, Sage's Apples, The Great Geauga County Fair who is hosting the Finale, which will be in the School Building, Heritage Marketplace, The Old Stone House, John's Country Nursery, Nature Lovers Nest, The Burton Log Cabin, Aunties Antiques, Century Village Museum, Mary Yoders, Beans Coffee Shop & Bistro, Country Arts & Jewelry, The Painted Wooden Door and DS Cakes and Sweet Cafe. 

This event starts at 10am and runs till 3:00pm The finale will be at The Great Geauga County Fair who is celebrating their 200th Anniversary from 3pm till 5pm.. 

We are working on the map with the list the of the stops and what they will be offering . This event has been one that people have enjoyed in the past and we have had great attendance for it. Many of our members have committed to items for our raffle baskets so I know there will be great prizes. Eric Andrews Basement Recordings will be there with his acoustic Guitar, We will have Rachel Park doing face painting, and she will have Decorating Cookie Kits for the kids to make their own decorated cookie at a reasonable cost. Crayons available for the kids to color and we will have it into 2 categories for age. A prize will be awarded for the best picture. 

Call the office for a map or go to our website and you can print your own. For the tour when you go to your 1st stop they will have maps, stamp your map and then head to your next destination. 10 stamps will get you into Finale for a chance to win one of the Finale Gift Baskets, must be present to win.

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15th Annual Spring Drive-it-Yourself Tour!

If it is your first time, here’s how it works… In celebration of National Tourism Week every Spring Destination Geauga invites you to be a ‘tourist in your own back yard,’ with the Annual Spring Drive-it-Yourself Tour. A great way to explore area businesses and support the local economy, the tour offers 25 participating locations and you choose a minimum of ten stops that appeal to you. Each stop will be featuring special activities, give-aways, sales, food samples or demonstrations to tour participants. You can choose locations you have never visited, or your favorites for sales and unique activities. So for people that do the tour every year (and there are a lot of you!) there is always something new.

You can get a list of all of the stops, their activities and a map, by stopping the Destination Geauga Office 14907 North State Ave-Middlefield or online at www.DestinationGeauga.com or at any of the participating member locations.

Tour stops : Artisans’ Corner Gallery, The Barn Treasures, Between Two Rivers, * Buckeye Chocolate Café (Chardon), The Carriage Trade Boutique, * Countryside Gazebos, * Crystal’s Custom Cupcakes, D & S Farm and Garden,  * DS Cakes & Sweets, * Elite Auction Gallery, End of the Commons General Store,  * Fig Leaf Coffee Company, * Geauga Park District’s Observatory Park, * Great Lakes Outdoor Supply (Middlefield), Hastings Dairy & Rowdy Cow Creamery, His Daughter, Honey Hill Peddler General Store, * John’s Country Nursery, * Karl’s Jewelry, * Keller Williams-Geauga Realty Group , Richards Maple Products, * Scheid’s Gifts for all Seasons, Special Hands Shoppe, Valentine Antiques, * Weaver Bedding

 ( *Designates new stop )

Lynda Nemeth Executive Director Destination Geauga 440-632-1538 www.DestinationGeauga.com | www.GeaugaBarnQuiltTrail.com

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Great Time and Goals Achieved at the Drive It Yourself Tour

Do you love living in Geauga County?

I know I do. I have lived here my entire life and can’t really imagine living anywhere else. The people here are so kind and welcoming. You can’t beat the scenery and the changing of the seasons.

Geauga County Tourism’s Annual Spring Drive It Yourself Tour is the perfect way to experience Geauga County. You start out with a list of 25 businesses, the specials they are offering for this event, and a map. We spent Friday night mapping out the route we would take to try to hit all 25 businesses in a 5 hour time period. We attempted this last year and were only able to get to 17 businesses.

So here is the list of all of the businesses that we went to in order:

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Sirna’s Pizzeria

Blazin bills, auburn pointe greenhouse, the pond skating rink, geauga feed, sharon james cellars, geauga county habitat for humanity restore, carriage trade boutique, for the birds, wildlife & more, antiques on the square, classic country consignments, kent state geauga, the barn treasures, crossroads country cafe, healthy pursuit wellness center, cre ekside lawn furniture, miller’s furniture, end of the commons general store, middlefield original cheese co-op, hershberger’s housewares, pinecraft storage barns, scheid’s enterprise, the craft cupboard, rustic rewind, we did it all 25 stops with time to spare.

Click here to see a full album of pictures from the event!

We met up with the other participants and a few members of the Geauga News Team at the finale at the Middlefield Market. The Real Deal String Band played live music for all of the participants to enjoy. Several tables were set up for silent auction items and Chinese auction items. There were a lot of really great donations from all of the businesses that were involved in the tour. We bought $10 worth of raffle tickets and ended up winning a quart of maple syrup from the Burton Log Cabin, which is worth more than the $10 we spent, and it was exactly what I wanted!

Three prize baskets were loaded with goodies and gift certificates for the three big winners. 1st prize, a $660 value, was won by Rosanne Williamson of Middlefield; 2nd prize, a $400 value, was won by Carol Wolf of Concord; and 3rd prize, a $350 value, was won by Karen Fuller of Newbury.

Thank you to everyone that was involved in this tour. We sure had a great time and can’t wait for next year!

Author: Geauga News

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

What is the kremlin in russia?

The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Moscow metro underground small-group tour.

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• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
• If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
• Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

Local English-speaking guide

Pancake snack and drink

Additional food and drinks

Tickets for public transport

Souvenirs and items of a personal nature

Tips and gratuities for the guide

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Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day