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April Adventures in Hollywood and Miami, Florida

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As I mentioned in the post Rock & Roll Icons’ Guitars and Outfits, John and I recently returned from a trip to Miami and Hollywood, Florida where John attended a poker tournament.

Before John played in his day long poker tournament, we spent a couple days wandering about in Hollywood and Miami (South Beach), Florida.

Here’s a little photo travelogue of some of our fun adventures.

HOLLYWOOD, FLORIDA

We stayed at the Marlin Beachside in the Hollywood Beach area, right on the beach:

Images credit: Tripadvisor

They had free bikes for guests, so every morning we went for a 8 – 10 mile bike ride along the beach on the boardwalk and then to breakfast:

Nearly every evening there was a free rock concert on the boardwalk by a cover band. Some of them were kind of “cheesy” but one evening they had an amazing band that did excellent Classic Rock covers. Here we are enjoying the music!

SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI, FLORIDA

We had a rental car to get around and we spent an afternoon in the South Beach Art Deco Historic District in Miami.

Our wandering about the outdoor shopping district began with a visit to an amazing German bookstore – Taschen Books. There are only two US bookstore locations for this store – in Hollywood, California and in Miami, Florida.

The store featured mind blowing oversized coffee table books, which started at around $80 USD in price. My favorite of their books was one about the world’s most beautiful libraries:

They had on display an amazing book on Ferrari race cars that retailed for $7500 USD and was encased in a special display case, which John, a race car buff, enjoyed looking through with the required white gloves on his hands.

Image credit; Taschen Books website

Wandering around the shopping area, we came across a very cool window display at one of the many art galleries around the Art Deco District – a display of human sized matches with human heads!

We had paella for lunch under a tree in one of the outdoor courtyards in the Art Deco Historic District. While waiting our food, beautiful flowers keep falling from the tree about onto my plate.

Something special about flowers falling from the sky and arranging themselves on your plate while you await your delicious meal.

Finally the paella arrived and I removed the flowers from my plate to make room!

Towards the end of the meal a rain of a liquid substance came down on John. Turned out a HUGE Iguana in the tree above was spitting at him or something!

We didn’t realize at the time it was only a harmless Iguana – our mind went to other things like a poisonous Gila Monster! So we paid the check quickly and got out of them – ha! The restaurant staff gave John some clothes with some type of cleaner on them to clean his arms where the “Iguana-rain” had fallen!

After that we wandered over to a jazz concert in the park in front of the beach area and then wandered along the beach

It was nice to put my toes in the Atlantic Ocean!

We had a wonderful trip and thanks for reading!

(IFor someone who lives very far away from palm trees, it was cool seeing palm trees bending with the wind at dusk along the beach!)

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24 thoughts on “April Adventures in Hollywood and Miami, Florida”

  1. That looks awesome. The bookstore you guys visited I marked. I’ll definitely hit that place the next time I take a trip to Miami, one of my favorite towns.

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      1. Small adventures add up, and there are so many of them around, life is never boring when you have this outlook. I wish I had seen a lizard in a tree. I guess I still have that to look forward to in life!

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  3. I’m always amazed at how familiar the landscape is when I look at photos around Miami. Same palm trees, same flowers… we’re a lot more undeveloped here, lots of sugarcane farms, wide, empty beaches, and instead of iguana-hazards, you might find flocks of rosellas screeching overhead and possible a little light sprinkling of bird-poo!

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      1. Deliciously warm is a good descriptor for *part* of the year, anyway. Boiling hot for a greater part, and a little brisk for another part. We’re in the delicious phase right now, heading into brisk. If you plan to visit, plan to avoid December-February, unless you love temps in the 90-100s Fahrenheit with 80-90% humidity.

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  4. Wow! What a lovely trip! That sure was an art deco area to visit – even your hotel was retro and cool 🙂 It is wonderful being on the beach and seeing the ocean. So glad you had such a great trip, even with the iguana rain!

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  7. You explored some fun places on your trip, and your hotel looks like a cool place, too. Clearly the iguana must be a regular offender if the restaurant has stuff on hand for clean up. I think I’d prefer the flowers falling on my plate tot he iggy rain! Haha.

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