It had all the usual luxuries…collapsed drawers and cacophonous air con but the view from the sun deck was as follows:
We were both overtired from wrestling with marshmallows and a future Gucci handbag so it did.
The remainder of the journey to Key West was….blue and spattered with bridges:
I knew Jamie Lee Curtis hanging from a helicopter after slaying the Persian artefact pirate was real life (True Lies), and now she advertises pro-biotic yoghurt as a way of saying she is gracefully if not digestively succumbing to old age
And the road went ever on
Until a stop at Bahia Honda which was in Florida blog no 1. But in case you forgot and still don’t believe it’s that blue:
Here photographic disaster nearly ensued plus the end of my life…not trusting another Yankee looking photographic expert(see Florida blog 1) to take a photo of us against the blue background I decided to test my Sony Imp’s timer by balancing it on an old crate (not my idea) which was wedged in a tree and then running to stand with P. But I caught the branch, almost caught the camera but it then landed lens down in the sand. Furious blowing ensued and some heart wrenching moments as a few grains crackled as the lens retracted….suffice to say if I had included the subsequent photo that was the culprit..and which features P’s copious sunburn…he would have sold me as bait at a water moccasin convention.
And so to Key West…how can you sum it up in a phrase…well the one in the ladies’ toilet of the Schooner Wharf bar is a good start…
“Don’t sweat the petty things just pet the sweaty things”
Additionally Key West is known as the Conch Republic and in 1986 when the US government blockaded the Keys because of Cuban migrant issues it seceded from the Union, declared war on the Federal government, surrendered and then applied for international aid!
Let’s here it for the little people and wonky lamp-posts
This is the best way to see Key West but I have never ridden a fix wheel bike...I wore out my pumps!
Parking is metered at the same rate as Kensington and Chelsea.
Remembering our priorities – booming property portfolio first
Stopping off for a lunchtime Margarita in the Schooner Wharf bar
and to check out marine type assets
Ancient
And modern
Then time to re-fuel with proper Jamaican Jerk chicken and Red Stripe at the Blue Heaven
Which had this running round the yard
practising his stud muffin skills on all the females also in the yard...Not good as you sink your teeth into one of his spiced up former conquests.
Here comes some more culture and education
Key West is the southernmost point of the US
Key West is the origin of the “why did the chicken cross the road jokes
Ernest Hemingway had a home here,
which he also offered as a haven to cats and the society still does. Some of them have the genetic mutation of five toes..it can’t be seen that well here but on the left front paw if you look closely you can just see it peeping out the back.
According to the guide who seemed to look like and drink the same amount of whiskey out of a hip flask as his hero
Hemingway appears to have loved a number of women and also for me had an unhealthy obsession with birthing stools> Also check out the lino! He was one of Picasso's pals.
And for those of you who thought I was just a “wild” child…Charlie Dimmock wear your vest out….
Florida is almost done but here is a community announcement:-
When in strange places always check your tuffet before sitting down in case you encounter one of these
Sharman
PS - I did go back the next night to get another shot but I didn’t cry this time
