The Palms Hotel Key West

... and more confident on the scooter. I felt calm and relaxed and smiled as I rode around the dirt through puddles amongst the palms. This was a really good time! Some little kids of a family that collected coconuts in the area shouted out "Hello!" as I ...

... the way were incredible. Literally like what you would imagine a beach paradise to look like, clear blue waters, palms, white sand like silk etc. To get to Key West you have to drive over a series of keys which are connected by bridges over the ocean, the ...

... food forecourt becomes wearyingly predictable so it's a welcome relief when, two hours after leaving Duck Key, we finally drive into Key West and discover the Historic Old Town. A simple left on Duval Street leads us down the final five blocks of the USA ...

... slept the whole 3 hr drive, Tom and Gen watch videos on the in car entertainment system.     The night life at Key West lives upto its reputation  and by 11pm its time to get the kids off the street.  Having not booked any ...

... Butterfly conservatory.  Admission was $12.00 for adults, $8.50 for kids 4 and over and free for kids 3 and under.  With our "key west gold card" (which cost us $15.00 ;) ) we received a discount and our total was $28.00.  The conservatory ...

We stayed at the Gaylord Palms hotel in Kissimmee.  The hotel location is just right down the road from the maingate entrance.  I booked the hotel using Priceline at $93 a night plus a $10 daily resort fee.  The hotel looks just like the ...

... in the family.  She is dressed in a brillant red  & gold or hot pink sari, her eyes are sweet, gold cascades from her palms symbolically out to the devotees.  The puja is done in the home.  Her feet are drawn on the floors to symbolize her coming to ...

... looking ones. They giggle wickedly about it; I don’t think I want to be there for it. Hannan was taught to reads palms by her grandmother. She doesn’t believe in it, which makes for a much more objective look at our futures. Tracing the lines ...

... cigars,salty sea air and palms swaying in the latin music. Turquoise sea around to calm you. We drove down US 1 to Key West,43 bridges,hundreds of fishing boats and diving shops dot the 800 keys.It should take 2 hrs if you don't stop ...

... way back (sounds like a good start for a Penthouse Forum letter :)). In general, the entire Keys are a Disneyland with Key West being Disneyworld. Visited the lighthouse/museum and Hemmingway's house (obviously the one after he became rich and famous); ...

When you drive down U.S. 1 heading toward Key West, you know you've arrived when you come to a city: a downtown with stoplights, shops, and homes. That may seem like an obvious statement, but when you motor by the other 331 islands, or keys (most of them ...

... to look at the Botanical Gardens. Do a walk around the East side, but find it not much different to the last 4000kms. The West side is greener, with palms and lawns. Talk for a while with some fellow grey gypsies from WA.    Stop at Comet to look at the ...

... lava, with clean green sea, and a surf. The hillside which isn't lava is covered in green vegetation, with a lot of coconut palms. In immigration, we are forced to fill in a visa application form, even though we show our visas, but some sort of English ...

... it is 12 noon Abu Dhabi time. Set off in search of breakfast and a pair of Mephisto shoes in that order. We walk west past the Hotel de Ville, take a leg to the north to look at an interesting street, and find ourselves at the Pompidou Centre, where the ...

... Gold Coast in about an hour. We were immediately impressed by the Sheraton Mirage—the lobby and grounds are stunning. The hotel faces the Southport Broadwater while the lagoons and pool lead to the Pacific Ocean and a broad, sandy private beach. ...

... hour bus journey from Natal south to Joao Pessoa.  The terrain was flat and sandy, and cultivated with sugar cane and palms. Joao Pessoa is the capital of Paraiba state and the third oldest city in Brazil (after Salvador and Recife).  We ...

... down cake was also amazing for breakfast standards as l sat and ate it in bed the following morning overlooking the swaying palms and blue ocean! But great seaside dining doesn't get much better than Bamboo which from the front looks rather dodgy but ...

... even it had only a few major streets. Two streets back from the market street which faced the ocean I found a small Chinese owned hotel. They had a room on the first floor with a security barred window which faced the laneway. This was Christmas Eve and ...

... not so good as they tend to be of the golden and red delicious sort. The Tinehir Valley, date palms and old and new villages. We have lunch at a hotel in the Todra Gorge. This was soup, an excellent lamb (at last!) tajine and oranges and ...

... and good food too. After that we walked back through some of the big hotels and looked at historical stuff. Finally back to hotel where we packed for leaving tomorrow. I’ve had a great time, in spite of the personal problems and inconvieniences, ...

... of pink and blue, wind and thunder rolling across the sky. At 2am it finally gave and a torrent sent everyone in the hotel scrambling for shelter like cockroaches when the toilet light is turned on. The result was, when I went down to the bus ...