I’m in Florida for Thanksgiving (my first one – so far from what I can gather it is like Christmas only with no presents and rather a lot of American Football…). This is also the first time I’ve been to Florida. I’ll head south to check out the Keys tomorrow but at the moment I’m near Naples (SW FL). So far it has been pretty similar to what I was expecting – ie God’s waiting room with a rather pleasant climate. Everywhere looks like a Saga outing and there are monster pharmacies on every corner, presumably to dispense the vast quantities of drugs required to keep the ancient population alive. You can’t come to somewhere calledNaples and not have great Italian food so the experience has been very positive so far.
It isn’t all grannies in purple velour tracksuits however, the Everglades are beautiful. We took an air boat ride that took us beasting around through beautiful mangroves teaming with wildlife – lots of birds and many, many aligators. Here’s a taster;
