- Went out on Weds night to LIV and saw Dada Life. Club can best be described as a plush version of the forum, that fills up every wednesday (voted best party in Miami).
- The next morning, I was robbed. Two girls came back to the hotel with us and when they left, my iphone was gone and so was at least $500 out of my wallet (well, all the money from my wallet was gone). No cards, ID or camera/laptop, just those artifacts. Been to the police and filed a report, gotten the hotel security footage, but unfortunately, it doesn't look like they'll be able to ID them. At least I have travel insurance though.
- Beach
- Visited Espinola way, just around the corner from us. It's a nice little courtyard section (well cordoned off road for pedestrians) kind of reminiscent to Chinatown, but filled with Spanish, Mexican & Italian style restaurants and shops.
- Did a big walk around the Art Deco district (which we're staying in) but just walked around to take it all in. It really is the tourist centre of Miami, which we found out when we went out on Saturday night (it's coming, chill). Lots of pastel coloured buildings with fluorescent lights... it really does look like GTA: Vice City. And you do get that vibe about it.
- Beach
- Visited Little Havana. Not so much a tourist attraction as such, but just an area where all the Cubans have settled, and where they have the Domino Park where all the old men play dominos. Cigar factories litter the streets, along with Cuban restaurants and other shops, all with Spanish as the primary language.
- Went to Grand Central on Satruday night, a club which is in the middle of Downtown Miami, but as we discovered, there are only really two streets that operate in Downtown at night time. The rest is a ghost town. Literally. If you've seen Will Smith in I Am Legend, that's what it was like. All the shops are locked up to the teeth with their rollar doors, no people walking around, no sounds... just a few homeless people lying around. We walked all the way there from Little Havana (a solid 90 minute walk in the humidity, so we were dying by the end of it). And the main thing is I survived, even with a camera hanging around my shoulder. I was told I was lucky to not have been mugged for my camera in Little Havana (I did notice a lot of glancing eyes at my camera though).
- Grand Central was a nice big space, formerly an office space, which had been gutted and turned into a massive club (roughly OAF size if you combined both rooms). Theophilus London was doing a set which was pretty awesome.
I'm off to Key West tomorrow and will probably just be at the beach today, along with updating police report and filing for insurance.
Before I forget, big ups to Chris for hooking me up with some people down here who have taken great care of us, and meant that we've met a few more legends too. Cheers bro.
Ciao
*Photos will be in the next post, and added to all the previous posts without photos
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