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

We got into Miami by around 4, and as we had made it a day earlier then originally predicted we now had 3 different groups of friends in Miami that night; Margie and Chris (from San Diego and who came to Vegas with us) they were in Miami for one night before their cruise to the Bahamas, Olivia (my friend from The Hughenden Hotel in Sydney) who was flying to New York the next day after spending the semester at the Uni of Miami and then there were Gavin, Murray and Adam who we made friends with a couple of years ago at Jimmy's Beach who I had only met a few times but Laura and the girls still kept in touch with them. We organised to meet all of them out that night, so after ... read more

That would be Miami Beach, FLA. Arrived MIA ~7 am local time this morning, promptly board the Airport Express Flyer bus to Miami Beach, and was soon sitting down to breakfast at a deli that I frequented sometime in the last millenium. It used to be a strict Jewish deli. It is now Jewish-Cuban fusion but it works. I think the previous owner sold the business and retired to Florida where he was already living much to his chagrin. As a bonus the deli had multiple TVs showing ESPN highlights of the Boston Celtics resounding and pivotal game 2 road victory over the pesky Atlanta Hawks. A vintage performance from Paul Pierce (36 points, 14 rebounds) offest the loss of Rajon Rondo (suspension) and Ray Allen (ankle). Boston is now 5-1 this season without their opening ... read more

After our adventures in 2008, there was precious little to blog about. However, we are back on the road, and again posting updates of our latest advenutre; this time we are on our way to the equatorial islands of the galapagos. Sadly we had to leave Avery behind at university. Today was a stop over on the way to Ecuador. A short unventful flight saw us in Miami just after lunch. The weather is cloudy with a strong wind. We are told repeatedly that the weather will be clearing up for the weekend ... sadly we are on our way tomorrow. We did get to spend some time on the white sand of south beach. Unforutnately, due to the poor weather, the usual south beach visual distractions were not out in any force. We did come ... read more

After flying into Miami International Airport, we hired a car from Alamo and drove across Miami to our hotel in Miami Beach. The GPS system we managed to hire was invaluable, and the skyline by night of Miami was beautiful. The resort we were staying in was the Miami Beach Resort, North of South Beach (http://www.miamibeachresortandspa.com/). I wasn't too impressed by the resort - after looking on the website before we left, I had high expectations and they weren't met. When you first walk in, the hotel looks impressive, but underneath the initial grandeur, the hotel was tired, old fashioned and in desperate need of updating. The pool area was nothing to shout home about, although being a 'beach hotel' I presume this is not important to a lot of people - and in the afternoon ... read more

Today we were up at around 8:30am, and we got showered and dressed before going down to the lobby for some breakfast. We once again had our pancakes cooked for us, and we sat on one of the sofas to eat them. We came back up to the room for a little while, watched a bit of TV and then started to get our stuff together ready for the beach. We packed up our beach towels, put on some suncream and grabbed our parasol before setting out of the hostel at around 11am. We reached the beach and set up the parasol, ready for when we wanted to get a bit of shade. We lay down our towels and then spent the next hour or so just basking in the sun (which was VERY hot today, ... read more