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Day 16 - Saturday 22nd May. Miami Beach
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| Day 16 - Saturday 22nd May. Miami Beach |
| 07.08.04 (4:23 pm) [edit] |
After getting about 6 hours sleep we headed down the interstate to the Miami beach area. Miami drivers are probably the worst I have seen in the US, there was quite a lot of luck that we didn’t get caught up in an accident. Again with no maps of the area we drove down Washington and Collins ave in south beach trying to find a park with no success. All of the café’s and restaurants on the strip all have exclusively valet parking out the front, very strange seeing it’s just curb-side parking, but if you’re a movie star with a H2 Hummer then I guess you’d go for that.
After finding a park next to the crusty hotel where we were staying, we heading down to the beach for a good couple of hours. With all the people on the beach there was probably on about a 10th of those in the water, probably because there is prty much no surf, it’s just a big tanning session. Seeing the sun doesn’t go down till about 8:30pm there’s plenty of time to spend on the beach. It was in the high 90’s with low humidity, perfect weather plus the UV doesn’t seem that extreme so I got a whole weekend in the sun with no roasty toasty, one downside of Australia I guess.
We headed down Collins ave and found a fairly cheap irish restaurant to eat at, Miami is definitely not a cheap place to stay, restaurants and alcohol is quite expensive compared to other areas. After getting back to the hotel we headed down to the Clevelander on Collins ave with an outdoor bar area as well as a pool in the middle prty sweet place, very touristy. We went for a walk and stumbled across this club called Hotel Astor, turned out to be ‘the’ place for locals, it was a converted old art deco hotel. I have the suspicion we got back at to the hotel at 5am, not such a smart thing to do seeing we were only there for 2 days.
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