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d4: Leaving Miami: impressions
Today is my last day in Miami. It’s sad to leave Max, who has been a great host the few days I’ve been in Miami beach: friendly and helpful, we’ve had nice conversations on his scooter and over dinner. Max is the first couchsurfer at whose place I stay and it’s been a great experience. Thanks, Max! : )
Miami is a place with a great weather and beautiful beaches, which make it a target for beach tourism, of course. It seems that nightlife is big here, although I haven’t tried that, and I haven’t seen the financial district or downtown either, ergo I do not know Miami as a whole. A couple of people I met here noted that people in Miami beach are very moveable. It’s expensive: the first night we tried to eat out, at my arrival, I saw average-looking restaurants twhose cheapest main courses cost 20 bucks!
We ended up going to a Mexican place, where we went back yesterday, on my last night -funny enough, the first time I ordered a quesadilla and Max a burrito, and we did the opposite yesterday.
Talking about prices, I just bought a coffee at the airport for $3.20!!! However, public transportation is affordable: for short distances in Miami beach you can take a type of core shuttles that cost only $25. For longer rides, it’s $2 (or $2.50 with transfer), but I think these are new (higher) prices because Max insisted it cost $1.50 and $2 with transfer.
It’s amazing how much Spanish is spoken here. In Miami (Beach) you don’t need to speak English because most people are latinos. Whenever I started speaking to someone in English because I hadn’t yet heard my interlocutor talk at all, I would end up switching to Spanish because a few seconds later I heard them address someone else in Spanish. At the airport, many announcements are made in Spanish before they are in English (at least in the area I am sitting at while I type this, for flights with Latin-American destinations).
Besides the large quantity of hotels (esp. in Miami beach), some of which of questionable architechtonic taste, and the nice houses along the bay (big houses that must cost a lot of money with boats docked in front of the house -they make for pretty views), Miami has either more or more visible buildings for the sexual amusement of men… I don’t know if they are brothels or just “show” houses, but I’ve seen several places with announcements like the one pictured here.
This picture I took on my way to the airport, a 2-hour long trip including a bus trasnfer that lasted about 40 minutes and an hour-long bus ride with my bags and surfboard… : )
d3: surfboards a Miami en ciclomotor
DIVENDRES
Avui el Max m’ha portat amb el ciclomotor a diverses botigues de surf al nord de Miami Beach i a l’altra banda de la bahia. Parlant amb el tio d’una botiga i el seu col.lega he après alguna cosa sobre hidrodinamica i també he trobat una taula que m’interessava, pero que es trobava a South Beach (!), a la botiga de l’altre paio. La funda, pero, l’he hagut de comprar en aquesta
primera botiga i dur-la amb la moto cap a casa! A la tarda he anat cap alla i no només he fet negocis (o despesa), sino que he estat per alla la botiga una estona, entre altres coses fent trucades que em calia fer urgentment abans de marxar dels EUA, i que el surfista m’ha deixat fer amb el telf de la tenda: molt bona gent.
L’excursio en ciclomotor ha estat molt bé, si no per la comoditat, per la sensacio de llibertat que dona una moto en comparacio amb un vehicle tancat. He fet unes quantes fotos, tot i que no he enganxat els llocs més xulos.
Vale, a part de racons xulos, la majoria son hotels enormes…
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Haviem de sortir a fer un got amb uns amics italians del Max pero els dos estem cansats… i jo volia escriure tot aixo per no endarrerir-me més… acabo de penjar els ultims 3 posts de cop! : ( : )
A més, ens hem quedat satisfets fent fotos amb la nova taula, que m’han portat els de la botiga després de les 9pm! (no em queixaré, a sobre que me la porten, encara que sigui gairebé dues hores tard…)
Vegeu les fotos d’aquests 3 dies aqui.










