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Max's Round the World in 36 days
Exactly 24 hours in Miami - 24h to experience the city, to look around, to make judgements. 24h is just the amount of time to make a preliminary judgement, some skin feeling. After the LA experience I was not expecting too much but this time I have been positively surprised. Maybe it's the weather, maybe the location of the place I am staying at, or maybe it's simply Florida. But it has to be said that it did look good even from the plane.\
A beautiful hot day spent at Miami Beach, as this is where I have been staying. A very short walk to the sea, amazing palm trees all around, beach full of people. It does remind me of Cancun a little bit but you definitely see the difference in terms of a much more developed country. I stayed at the beach for a little while but no swimming this time. I made my way downtown in a local bus but did not see much there - I even got do the district called Local Havana, as it essentially looks like Cuba and only Latin Americans leave there. It looked quite dodgy though and thought it would not be the best idea to be there on my own. I therefore got back to Miami Beach and have been strolling and strolling through bloody long main roads: Washington and Collins Avenue.
I do like this place - it naturally is an American city but it has got a lot of European flavour to it. Quite a number of small restaurants and even cafes I was not expecting to find. Naturally there is a HUGE proportion of Spanish-speaking population, actually I am sure that I have passed by more Spaniards than Americans today - some of them living here for ages but still not speaking a word of English. You only hear Spanish in local buses, when I asked for direction - I was talked to in Spanish... and everything is bilingual in the city, buses etc. This Spanish part has really surprised me in both LA and here.
But it really is a cool place. Combining the metropolis with a fabulous beach is not a European phenomenon and I can perfectly immagine how cool life must be for the people living here. I must even admit that I would consider such an option myself, if naturally given to me.
So yes, a place to come back to. I am really knackered today so a short entry. A very difficult day ahead - I m supposed to fly into San Jose and catch some 2 buses and a ferry in order to get to a place called Playa Hermosa - a place I have absolutely no idea of and don't even know its location on the map. My home for the next 6 days.
Are you all alive?
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