Following the coast road from Dania Beach down to Hollywood which is mile after mile of 50 story high expensive condos’ overlooking either the inland waterways or sea. Still lots of building going on and the traffic through Hollywood was really slow. We though about purchasing some sandwiches at a Publix which was shown on Google Maps only to get there it was no more and another Con do going up. Keeping with the road going South and being very slow due to traffic we espied a ‘European Deli’ ah! that should be ok but what they should have its Polish with a touch of Greek and some other Eastern European nationalities as they were also selling a Ukrainian cake. However we settled for turkey for Noel and Tuna for Jen and guy preparing the salads could not understand why we did not want chees on the baguettes. We explained to him that we are from the UK where you don not eat cheese on every single bit of food like the Americans seem to do, so ‘you want cheese with that’?? always goes unanswered.The traffic got steadily worse as we neared North Miami and then we came upon the reason for this slow driving due to the ‘Miami Boat Show’ which went on for it seems like miles and their must have been more than a billion dollars in boats lined up alongside. There were shuttle buses and road blocks and entertainment centres and literally hundreds of police adding to the chaos. So welcome to Miami. North Beach and South beach were packed with tourists and with the temperature around 28 Degrees Centigrade we decided it would be to warm to walk about and as we were going to a nice restaurant later in the evening in Coral Gables we did not want to arrive a little sweaty. Leaving Miami and the chaos we headed of to Key Biscayne which we thought would be a quieter place to be onto to find ‘part two’ of the Miami Boat Show and so so the Police were creating more chaos again. Oh well somebody got some money.
We moved on to the restaurant where we had a great dinner with an ex business colleague of Noel and finally departed there at about 9.30 pm perhaps with a 45 minute drive back to the Hotel only things did not go to plan as the road we were heading for had road works and the entrance ramp had been closed and so we followed the diversion signs which sent us totally in the wrong direction and on to TOLL ROADS which was the last thing we wanted. What with the number plate readers flashing every few minutes and the SAT NAV saying go this way and the road signs, sometimes non excitant saying go this way we got a little lost and took to the side roads to start again. However what this has done is moved us further south where were able to join the road we wanted but they were resurfacing it and there were massive queues, oh boy just what we needed,We finally made it back at about 2300 , later than we wanted but Hey Ho, what can you do.
And so to bed
PS this the last of the blog until we get home
