On arrival on the island, we followed everyone into a long queue and stood there for a few minutes until we realised this was the line for the restaurant. We joined our bags on the small ferry along with some 20 other 'guests'. Its on another island.I'm not sure if we established that? Its really not that easy to find where to drop your car and get the ferry – especially when throngs of floral patterned tourists have embarked from an enormous cruise ship and are clogging every conceivable inch of space, buying every conceivable variation of key lime. Thankfully as you drive further into this busy little island, the architecture improves into the timber clad colonials and tight grid pattern streets. So many of the towns are from the time that style forgot and the entrance to Key West isn’t really that much different. Most people who drive down US1 will probably agree that the nicest parts of the Keys are where there is no development. Situated as we are, clinging on to the Northern edge of Europe, where Summer constitutes a couple of days of sun in May, Its a nice dream to have. There were tales of Hemmingway and sport fishing and even across the pond in the UK we still hear about which category 3 hurricane is the next to slam into the islands. I remember flying over them on the way to Mexico many years ago and I was intrigued by this ribbon like archipelago curving round into the Gulf. I’ve always wanted to drive down the Keys.
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