Key West Florida 30 Aug 2010
My last weekend was pretty intense. I went to the most famous southern part of FLorida where the Cubans used to cross over the ocean in order to look for better life. Thousands of them died during the storms and floated ships. There is a memorial dedicated to their tragical death due to sicking for better condition of life. The majority of Floridan population in general come from Latin America, so the mostly spoken language is Spanish and the most characteristic cuisine come from South America. I keep discovering each time different meals such as Peruvian, Chilean, Columbian, Argentinian, Mexican, Cuban, Uruguayan. On the way to Key West (http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=active&client=safari&rls=en&q=key+west+florida&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Key+West,+FL&gl=us&ei=Swl8TOeeDNKGnQfH_NicCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCMQ8gEwAA)
2 days ago I visited the national park of Island, when I went on canal and sea tour by canoeing. It was really pleasant to row while being refreshed by the gentle wind breeze in the hair and drops of water absorbed by skin. After 170 miles drive through the all little islands belonging to the long key west track I got eventually to the pick point of this track - Key West. Its such a touristic place that I could't stand for too long. After having a nice sea food lunch in Island (crab cake, egg rolls with lobster, carpaccio of tuna, platanas - bananas, potato croquettes) I had got 3 different type of key lime pie. This particular pie is very characteristic for the whole FLorida, but originally comes from Key West. Key West is a town consisting of hotels, guest houses, bad and breakfasts. The main attraction of such a common place is: shopping, eating, parting. I spent there a couple of hours and it was time to leave. I've got back home at 3 am and fell a sleep from exhaustion. The next day my wife didn't allow me to be lazy and just lie down on the couch and indulge my laziness moment. She took me to the opposite south beach side hotel to participate in the happy hour swimming pool party. Actually we've never managed before to get there as we were extremely busy during weekends with different forms of entertainment. Eventualy we've get there, have a lobster cessadilla offered by my wife and few glasses of promoted moet champaign and goose vodka fruit drinks. After our few minutes reading we had to make a move back home and get ready to go out. I went to the brazilian dance company performance which fuses the brazilian folk, capoera and contemporary dance (http://brazartedance.com/). It was a 10th anniversary of the company's existence and they celebrated it at the Martin's art theatre of Miami (http://www.manuelartimetheater.com/pages/default.asp) by 2 hours performance. It wasn't too bad, the combination of music, wavy fabrics and folk dance was really well emphasised. I wasn't impressed by the contemporary dance choreography and the dancers movement quality. All these dancers with some exception were the resent school graduates taught by the choreographer Robert Diaz. The only one dancer was exceptional. The way she moved was sensual and meaningful, she was telling the story and being passionate about it. She moved the way I would expect the Brazilian dancer to move. I think that the strongest choreographic point was the folk dance. I would make fusion of folk, capoera and contemporary dance in way that all the dancers would merged their skills and styles into one choreographed dance piece. The performance was lacking of this connection in my opinion. Nether the less some of the acts were more touching and expressive than the others. After that I went to the Chilean place recommended by my Venezuelan yoga client to have as an appetiser: empanada de mariscos (sea food pastry/fried damping), lime conch salad (delicious) followed by incredible sea food soup (la supa de mariscos). The soup was really exceptional. The next day, means today I couldn't wake up, my body wouldn't allow me to move its limbs and lift my bum up of the bad. When I've finally managed to get up and go for 2 hours/5 miles swim just after the storm I completely lost the time orientation. I practised some yoga after fully energising swim in in the middle of hudge ocean waves and I realised that it must be over noon and I am late for the appointment with my wife and a butterfly. Somehow without using the mobile phones and wondering around south beach barefoot we got together and went for lunch to Starbucks near by ocean. Even thought we were supposed to go to Persian restaurant chosen by our special guest - Butterfly - somehow we ended up in regular caffe chain place. Any way it was such a nice experience to share our thoughts and opinions with a homeless person who's got an incredible education background - such as postdoc in nuclear engineering (considering that's true). We weren't sure what was the reason she reduced her life to such a stage where she lost her home and lived on the beach of Florida. She admitted also that she was still actively working in her field as a scientific researcher and publishing her articles for related journals. Her aim was to become a professor, and as far as she told us she was, but we don't know what really happened. What has brought her to such a circumstances....We suspect she is schisofrenik as my wife saw her in a state of mind while she was arguing with herself.
I am back to my duets now and advertise my workshop....which is up soon (3 weeks time)....hasta la vista;) In Europe is cold and rainy, over hear looks like it's also an Autumn, but once you get out of AC'ed place you become aware that you're still in tropics!!!!!!Yeas I am....and I appreciate it;)
