Dec 27
đ5ď¸âŁ Another year, another list of my Top Fives. We will begin with Places. This yearâs travels were almost entirely work related, and unfortunately a lot the places I visited were on repeat.
We did have one big family holiday, and that was to Qatar as we sought to open our daughterâs mind to another culture. The peninsula on the Arabian Gulf therefore took top spot, and here is a list of My Top Fives Favourite Places đ§ł
Please click for moređ5ď¸âŁ. Up next in my annual collection of Favourite things are RestaurantsđĽ. My ever expanding waistline is evidence of my propensity for eating out and that does not come without a lot of effort, and much good fortune to eat in some very nice places.
Please click for moreI am Coral Gables today. Just a short run from Miami airport, where I got in late last night from Lake Tahoe. I fly back to Bermuda later after I catch up on some work and have a walk around the charming streets of Coral Gables and get some lunch.
As expected George Čucudean said farewell today to Charlton and has moved on a 18-month loan to Steau Bucharest to “win trophies,” which to be fair he has more likelihood in doing bearing in mind Steau have won the league 25 times and the cup 21 times.
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We flew to Miami this morning and have had a stop-over day in nearby Coral Gables before we set off for a week’s skiing in Colorado tomorrow morning.
We are staying in Beaver Creek, near Vail, our 3rd time at the same hotel. We had decided that a skiing holiday wasn’t going to happen this year for one way or another so a corporate invite a couple of months ago was a very welcome surprise, especially to a hotel we love and a village that has a welcome sign up exclaiming: “Not exactly roughing it!”
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Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray produced an excellent final of the Sony Ericsson Open here in Miami this afternoon. In searing heat and high humidity the Serb and the Scot slogged it out for almost two and a half hours producing rally after rally.
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After a manic, and an often wearing March at work we leave Bermuda tomorrow for a week away spending the first weekend in Coral Gables, near Miami and then next week in Colorado followed by the majority of the next weekend making our way back from the mountains to Bermuda, not something the airlines allow us to do simply.
As I posted last weekend we have tickets for the Sony Ericsson Open tennis men’s final on Sunday afternoon. In today’s semi’s Rafa Nadal plays Andy Murray and number one seed Novak Djokovic is paired with the 21st seed Argentinian Juan Monaco.
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I rather like Coral Gables, just minutes from Miami Airport in one direction, minutes from South Beach in the other. It’s a fusion of grandoise Spanish hacienda’s, short skirted Latino’s and whacky Miamian’s where roads and pavements are designed and not layed.Â
Coral Gables was developed in the 1920’s when George Merrick planned an American Venice complete with canals and lakes. What Coral Gables got was one of America’s first ever fully-planned residential communities and certainly the work that Merrick did has stood the test of time. Coral Gables is also home to the University of Miami’s 15,000 students which keeps the downtown coffee shops busy.
Downtown entices with some nice shops, although mostly don’t require you to actually go inside unless you are after an expensive pair of earrings or a body wax. There are planty of restaurants and cafe’s plus many galleries to nose in. The Actor’s Playhouse Theatre take centre spot of Coral Gables’ Miracle Mile, the town’s main thoroughfare and if the local Mediterranean architecture needs some explaining then there is also the Coral Gables Museum to explain all.
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
