February 9 |
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| We had breakfast by the pool today, as
the sun has got it's hat on. After that we went to Hemingway's house
which is side on to where we are staying. We had to do the Great
American Tour here again as they don't let you walk around on your own.
The house is very pretty, with a sun deck all around the top floor.
There are lovely chandeliers in every room as wife 2 was into them.
Hemingway built his own bed as there weren't any big enough for his
liking around at the time. There was one of his cat's descendant's
on the bed while we were there. It is not a big place, but his writing
room is lovely, and the Italian tiles that his wife was into really
gives the place some character. There are around sixty cats living
there. mostly descendants from his 6 toed cats.
The gardens are beautiful, and very peaceful considering how many tourists are there. The garden is full of cats, most of whom are very friendly and happy to have a fuss made of them. One which looked like a Burman settled on Andrew's tummy and paddled for a while. Went to the Cafe Europa for lunch, it's the German place we went to earlier this week, Andrew had a spinach and ham omelette and lager and I tried the frankfurter and bratwurst with sauerkraut - both delicious, key lime pie for pud. We left there and I went shopping, while Andrew came back here for a nap. Bought us a T-shirt each, then after an hour or so collected Andrew to walk to the other side of the Keys to go on a cruise We had booked this morning to go on the 4.30pm cruise on Discovery, a glass sided boat, and spent a lovely couple of hours at the coral reef watching the fish and barracuda and all the different types of coral, brain, red fire fan etc. Then came up on deck again to watch the sunset, absolutely gorgeous, I'm so pleased that we got a good one on our last night. |
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 Andrews Inn Key West |
 Hemingway's House |
 A Hemingway cat paddling Andrew |
 Tall ship in Conch dock |
 Sunset from Discovery |
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