I´m going to Miami, haba neba ami ami... Is how Miami - as immortalised by Will Smith - sounded to me, before I actually went there. In my imagination, and not uncoincidentally, in line with said hit song - Miami was a place where the sun is always shining, the skies don´t see rain and the people are unfalteringly beautiful. With the very slight exception of a small amount of rain (barely worth mentioning, were it not for the author´s interest in accuracy), my preconceptions were basically true. Travelling on the local bus through Miami´s famous South Beach, you can look out to see honed bodies, pampered pooches and busty cosmetically altered mannequins (if you can forgive the obviousness of such a statement), but unlike the typical caricatures so often connoted by LA´s Hollywood, these beautiful
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