Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Pinky And The Brain Online Free



We're back with a small expedition of two days and a half toward the Everglades, Miami and the Keys, three of the four points of interest from Florida (the fourth being Disneyworld in Orlando).
Miami and surrounding communities merge into a huge metropolis of over 5 million people, to give you an idea, it takes more than an hour drive (two at peak times) for the journey between the first suburbs and downtown Miami, the heart of the city.

The photo below shows only the center, approximately 1/10th of the city!

Miami took off when Julia Tuttle (who bought a lemon groves on the death of her husband) and Brickell, (co-founder of the city) convinces Henry Morrison Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway to link the city railway network in the 1890s. In the 20s, Miami allowed gambling and does not enforce the ban, causing a massive influx of new residents. Then, when Fidel Castro took power in Cuba in 1959, some 500,000 Cubans emigrated to Miami, which are later added a great number of Haitians (at the time of the famous Papa Doc). Thus were born Little Havana, whose central axis is the 8th Street - everybody called "Calle Ocho" - and Little Haiti. As in any large metropolis, but also the fact that Miami is the "gateway to South America", the crime rate is high and not a day passes without its share of gangland, murders and overdoses .

Miami Downtown business district


Tourism is one of the major resources of the region and the Port of Miami is the largest in the world for cruises, with nearly 4 million passengers per year! Several bridges, including Maccarthur Causeway connects the mainland to Miami Beach, bordered by a sandy beach virtually uninterrupted for nearly 30 km.

There are about ten years, the city decided to restore and preserve an area full of Art Deco buildings : the Miami neighborhood that I prefer. Of course it is very touristy but it is human scale and architecture are beautiful. Ocean Drive, the road that borders the beach around 1 km, is the focal point Young hipsters who friment the terraces at the touch of their mobile plated gold or convertible are revving their latest ...

After his brief trip to Miami, we went toward the Keys, the string of islands that extend south Florida. Their name has nothing to do with keys, but with the English word "cays" ... Thus, the name Key West, where one wonders why it's called the West while it is the most southerly island, is a distortion of Cayos Uessos, the island of bones ... I mention tomorrow?

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