Florida Keys Vacation Part 2 - Touring Key West, Florida and Doing the Duval street Crawl

Touring Key West, Florida and doing the Duval road Crawl

Key West

Turquoise

On our second day in the Florida Keys, we headed down to Key West (with a designated driver) to do the Duval road Crawl. We went to the paramount Hog's Breath Saloon and Willie T's, which serves up an awesome mojito with a sugar cane stick in it! Some of the other paramount bars include The Bull, Sloppy Joes, The Green Parrot (the oldest bar in the Keys), The Lazy Gecko, and of policy Jimmy Buffet's primary Margaritaville which is placed on Duval Street.

We found Key West to be quite clean. I am a lover of great Southern cities like Savannah, and Charleston and I was happy to see that Key West had a similar southern charm. It is a city of beautiful historic homes and buildings. It's home styles include shotgun cottages, gingerbread homes, eyelid style homes and colonial homes. The beaches were clean. Mallory quadrate is where you can see cruise ships docked and watch nightly road entertainers as the sunsets. Duval road is filled with beautiful boutiques and upscale stores such as Coach. There are many shops that sell local artwork. There are also a lot of those mainstream funny T-shirt stores. It also has a bar on every corner, alas where the crawling comes in.

Key West also has other great things to do like The Key West Museum of Art & History in the practice House, placed near the Key West Aquarium. It also has the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum, which is over the road from the Key West Lighthouse. At the lighthouse, you can climb to the top and get a spectacular view of the city and see all of the clear blue turquoise waters surrounding it. To make you way nearby the historic district easier, we propose that you take the Conch Train Tour or the City View Trolley Tours. They contribute a spectacular, history of the city while giving your aching feet a break.

We then strayed off the beaten path of Duval road and found the Blue Heaven restaurant. It has the most beautiful setting, which is shaded by large trees and an eclectic island décor. While we enjoyed our lunch, a hen and her chick were perching on the lowest of our glass table, until a rooster arrived and chased them off! With that atmosphere who could stay away? We got to have a great talk with the performer, Toko Irie a Steel Drum Musician from Grenada, who put on a great doing that included Jamaican style music. You can check out his website at http://www.kwest.net.

Florida Keys Vacation Part 2 - Touring Key West, Florida and Doing the Duval street Crawl

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