subject: Key West Review! [print this page] Here is America's most southern (mainland) point
Colorful Key West is often called the Caribbean light.
From here it's shorter to Cuba than to Miami, exactly 14, 5 mil if you count it in land mil.
Nowhere in the U.S. are your vacation going to be more laid back. Authors, artists and Caribbean immigrants live her, and interact well with the many tourists who flock to the colorful island.
John Don Passos, Robert Frost, Alison Lurie and Nancy Friday have all lived in Key West.
Key West hosts one of the very few, if not the only, naked bar in the USA.
In the old town there are more bicycles than cars.
In the main street Duval Street, big party is hosted every night in bars and nightclubs.
It is a tradition that the chickens are walking around freely in the streets and the colorful club Blue Heaven, a former brothel where it was held cockfights.
Vibrant nightlife.
Cafes with names like Bad Ass Cafe and patisserie Better Than Sex, compete with traditional Sloppy Joe's Bar, which competes with the original Sloppy Joes.
It was Ernest Hemingway favorite bar, which has now changed its name to Captain Tony's Saloon.
Hemingway House.
For it is the writer who is now the city's big celebrity. Hemingway Home, where the author lived from 1931 to 1940, with many cats and one of his wives, Pauline Pfeiffer. The house is now a museum and the city's most visited attraction.
Shipwreck.
Less known is Casa Antiqua, the apartment building where the author lived in when he first came to Key West and had to wait for the rental car a few days. Like so many others, he stayed.
Key West was once Florida's wealthiest city, because of shipwreck and piracy.
Now this story is presented out to tourists through the Key West Shipwreck museum and Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum, with its gold treasures that were taken from the ocean floor in 1985.
Conch Republic
A few years ago Key West tried to break away from the U.S. and call themselves the Conch Republic.
Key West Review!
By: Christer Nyrud
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