We left the Hotel around 09.00 to go over to Airport to collect our Hertz Rent car. This entailed taking the Hotel shuttle in to the Airport Central to connect with the Hertz shuttle back to their place which was already busy when we got there and we had to wait for about 45 minutes before getting served and then did not get the car we had previously ordered. Such is life.
We left the Airport and immediately got lost, Boy how I hate Airports with limited signage but we eventually made it back to the Hotel to collect our luggage and head North in the direction of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Centre. The journey took us up via lots of small towns on the local road but after a while we realised we would not make our destination unless we hit the I-95 Freeway which we joined about 80 miles North of Miami and shortly afterwords came to a grinding stop as there had been a serious car accident. How is it possible for two cars to hit each other on almost an empty road (by UK standards that is) and one of them had rolled over several times and ambulances and police and fire engines in the hundred's were heading for the scene.After a delay of about 20 minutes we were on our way again and eventually at about 5 pm we arrived at the Doubletree Suites Hotel on Melbourne beach. We had a great sea view which quickly disappeared as it got darker and also colder. We decided that we would eat in the Hotel rather than troll up and down the strip.
The Hotel restaurant was extremely quiet and only three other people eating, I think there was more restaurant staff than guests but the food was really quite acceptable indeed and Jennifer had the mixed seafood grill and Noel the scampi and pasta all washed down with a glass or two of Chardonnay.
We both slept extremely well and this was good as Jennifer was beginning to suffer from a cold it seems but when we looked at the Internet and discovered what it was like in the UK, boy is it bad there
