Friday 8 January 2016

Arts and Craft....

We are joined at our breakfast in The Daily cafe by several tables of policemen, their belts heavy with all manner of gadgets; radios, truncheons, handcuffs, and of course, guns. Not what we're used to, but here, the norm.
We stroll along the waterfront to the beautifully manicured Museums Park, dotted with Palm tres and marble seating. The Perez Art Museum building itself is hung outside with exotic creepers. Inside are contemporary art exhibitions - not all to our taste or comprehension (one was an aviary of 4 live parrots!?), but some ceramics and giant colourful gauches of ladies were stunning.





Another wander along the waters edge where dolphins are milling around near the shore, and in the distance a red cruise ship backs slowly into dock. Alongside the park is moored the gleaming 87m long Motor Yacht "Fountainhead", the size of a small hotel. With a web search we find the amazing coincidence that it is owned by Mark Cuban. We hadn't heard of him until last week, when we became hooked on the brilliant TV programme "Shark Tank". This is the US equivalent of "The Dragons Den", but sooo much better. We are watching 3 episodes a night! Mark is a very successful genius entrepreneur on the panel, and the current owner of the Dallas Basketball
Team.



Location:Miami