In Miami Beach for the Account Planning Conference. It's a strange place.
It's like some sort of hyperreal version of itself. But an inadequate hyperreal version. Like you're in GTA Miami but it's not refreshing quite fast enough. You keep glancing the reality behind the frame-rate.
I'm too old for Miami. I checked into the hotel, barely able to hear my room number over the music, and wondered where the nearest good book shop was.
The fake real word installation of GTA: Miami does all the cliches. Including neon reflected in puddles. I must get a picture of that.
Anyone else here? Shall we do a coffee morning Wednesday morning?
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Love to do coffee Russell. I'm here at the conference, name the place and the time.
Cheers, Phil
Posted by: pgaughran | July 24, 2006 at 09:36 PM
Just a couple of suggestions to make South Beach a little more tolerable:
Puerto Sagua for cheap, but good, Cuban food. It's an institution, at 7th and Collins.
David's Cuban Coffee, there are a few locations, closest one is 10th and Collins.
Sandwich place just off Collins and 14th. Gourmet sandwiches, open really late.
Lincoln Road has some pretty cool art/book/culture shops, and some great restaurants.
Enjoy Miami, still bitter I'm not there :(
Posted by: Dino | July 24, 2006 at 10:22 PM
I'm game too. Will definitely need coffee by Wednesday.
Posted by: Heather | July 24, 2006 at 11:41 PM
Would also love to meet up for coffee down here Russell
Posted by: josh | July 25, 2006 at 12:22 AM
Ah... coffee. I'm there!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 25, 2006 at 12:39 AM
thanks Dino, I've already done Puerto Sagua. Fantastic place. Will try your other suggestions.
Everyone else. let's plan on Wednesday at 8, I'll try and find a good place.
Posted by: russell | July 25, 2006 at 01:24 AM
Go to Books & Books on Lincoln Road. It's nice, relaxing, and not part of a huge multi-national corporation.
And they do a mean Goats Cheese salad.
Posted by: Monty | July 25, 2006 at 04:05 PM
thanks Monty, I found that place yesterday, liked it a lot.
I must admit, I'm coming round to Miami. You can forgive somewhere a lot for a nice warm sea.
Posted by: russell | July 25, 2006 at 04:11 PM
I've just been there on vacation - well, technically I'm still there until Sunday, but I'm in Manhattan until tomorrow morning - and it's the kind of place that you can really get used to if you're not there for too long. If I was there for longer than a couple of months, I'm pretty sure I'd grow tired of it.
Like you said though, a warm sea certainly makes any failings a lot more forgivable.
Posted by: Monty | July 25, 2006 at 06:52 PM
Enjoy Miami, still bitter I'm not there :(
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