Happy New Year from Miami!
January 6, 2011 4 Comments
We didn’t have any New Year’s plans at all, in fact I had been planning to regal myself with trips to Lidl (sad but true). When my father rang to ask us if we wanted to join him in Miami, I felt like I had won the lottery! 10 days in the sun? Trading pork and potatoes for seafood and fresh fruit? Yes please!
6 days later, 4 days to go and I realize that Miami is like the Yang to Berlin’s Ying. It’s all about consumption and choice here, whereas Berlin is austere and prides itself on being frugal.
My husband and I were stuck at a train crossing for over half an hour yesterday and we both remarked that; had we been in Berlin, everyone would have been conscientious enough to turn their engines off and inevitably there would be someone reprimanding those who hadn’t done so.
It’s the food scene that fascinates me the most (of course! right?). Tables are typically turned at 45 minutes intervals and people eat all day long, which means restaurants are money-making businesses over here. Sure the majority of them serve what can only be described as embellished junk food but there are a lot of great concepts as well.
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