The Keys to North Palm Beach
Our Edgewater town house was a bit of a disappointment in many ways. It was very roomy and in a great location but rather shabby and down at heel. Yesterday's strong wind whistled and moaned in the ill-fitting windows and last night the cooker decided not to work. There were no instructions - it seemed to be a single-burner two oven gas cooker - and a couple of knobs were missing. Embarrassingly, when we got back from rousting out the on-site staff member, it had miraculously come to life! We did meet a couple of other residents, one from North Germany and one from Corsica; the staff were Hispanic. The Frenchman offered to cook our Pizza for us; vive l'entente cordiale!
We were away in good time but ran into a mega tailback on the only road off the Keys. It turned out to be caused by a marine flea market obstructing the passing traffic. We must have lost 45 minutes to that. After that it was 'plain' sailing if you class the continuous spaghetti junction driving around Miami. The hire car has a horrendous blind spot in the driver's door mirror; extraordinary that cars are still produced with such a well-known problem. My 15-year old VW has a special curved section at the outer edge of the mirror to expand the field of view. Of course it lacks adaptive cruise control; it seems you can’t have everything! However, as C discovered using cruise control it slows you down if the car in front is going slower than you are which when it’s busy, which it was, is really useful!
David saw this car and had to take a photo of it. For those who care it’s a 1930s Ford V8 woody station wagon.
Tonight we're in North Palm Beach in a motel. The area is quite posh, but the motel isn’t! It's basic, but ok for one night. We took a walk over to a local park where we could see Fort Lauderdale across the lagoon. David spotted a sailing boat he was envious of!
We were away in good time but ran into a mega tailback on the only road off the Keys. It turned out to be caused by a marine flea market obstructing the passing traffic. We must have lost 45 minutes to that. After that it was 'plain' sailing if you class the continuous spaghetti junction driving around Miami. The hire car has a horrendous blind spot in the driver's door mirror; extraordinary that cars are still produced with such a well-known problem. My 15-year old VW has a special curved section at the outer edge of the mirror to expand the field of view. Of course it lacks adaptive cruise control; it seems you can’t have everything! However, as C discovered using cruise control it slows you down if the car in front is going slower than you are which when it’s busy, which it was, is really useful!
David saw this car and had to take a photo of it. For those who care it’s a 1930s Ford V8 woody station wagon.
Tonight we're in North Palm Beach in a motel. The area is quite posh, but the motel isn’t! It's basic, but ok for one night. We took a walk over to a local park where we could see Fort Lauderdale across the lagoon. David spotted a sailing boat he was envious of!
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