Blogs from Miami, Florida, United States, North America - page 8

Stasa took us for a drive through Wynwood District in Miami. It's a Puerto Rican neighborhood that is very poor. It also has the most amazing graffiti art I've ever seen. We drove through a dozen streets that were covered in stunning portraits. Apparently, the art changes all the time, too. Here are some images from our drive. My favorite is the tattooed Mona Lisa.... read more

Miami 24 Feb. + One of the main things I hate about Miami is that, although the bus can get you around generally, it nevertheless can be a long way to go anywhere, especially if you are in a cab paying for it! The Greyhound is in a godforsaken place off a very busy thru-road virtually at the end of the airport runway in an industrial area really. Nowhere near anything! I had planned a route to get close enough on the Airport Express bus form Miami Beach a few streets N of my hotel – and got there, it was on the opposite side of the road, and then decided to take off – I think it was on time and I was 5 min. out on my timings. As I had a $5 daily ... read more

So we enjoyed these nice holidays, we went to the beach and visited Miami : during a lot of days we went to the beach to swim, explorate the underwater world with wonderful fish, beautiful submarine vegetation (slime). We went scuba-diving in the Grove Scuba - Miami's PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center (if you're interested to exploring the sea and to this nice sport ;D). We also went surf at the beach and it was awesome ! But I was very hopeless, my friend was better than me at this sport... (if you're interested to this surfing club: www.liquidsurfandsail.com). Then, we left our hotel and Miami downtown to gone to Key West for about 3 days, in South of Florida. This little city was gorgeous and funny: there were chickens which were walking in ... read more

Greetings from beautiful.......MIAMI!!! Quick overnight here and then it's off to Paraguay tomorrow. Great cuban food at Sergio's in Coral Gables near the Miami Airport, if you ever are in the neighborhood. (isn't this where you went to school, Sis?) I think I gained 7 pounds tonight alone. Anyhoo, just wanted to shoot out a quick hello to see if this bloggy dealy works! Cell phone officially off and wont be storing any voicemail or text messages until it's back up on May 10th. But, I'll be available on and off via email/blog and skype! My skype ID is quinnvk. Adios for now!!!... read more

Miami Quick note in v basic circumstance. Fr IPod - off to port - shipbc net v expensive so likely nothing for next 7 days... read more

In Miami, it was just wonderful ! We stayed in a luxury hotel : the « Fontainebleau Miami Beach » hotel, it was gigantic with a big swimming pool, it was nice because the hotel owners were great and generous. I would have prefer a B&B but my friend wanted to have a big hotel and by the way, I don't dislike tuxuary hotels... But the human relationship with the owners is not the same that in a B&B but, here, we were luck because the owners weren't like other owners of big and luxury hotels...... read more

Miami-Cayamo 13 Feb. + posted 21 Feb.in Deco District, Sth Miami at packed Hostel to get it off my hard drive - no time for pic edits at this time so later... Obviously there has been no blog due to outrageous cost of Net on the ship (70cents per min.) – via satellite and not v fast it seems I had neither the time or inclination to do anything. I was here for the music not compulsive blogging after all! Rewind to Miami – left Orlando at 9.30am on 12 Feb. Greyhound – and after a TSA type security full open bag check (on the ‘Hound??) – with confiscation of open Southern Comfort – also joked about their potential worry about Cuban terrorists – and the guy pointed out he was Cuban – foot in mouth ... read more