![]() I love to buy local art when I travel and you’ll find several galleries and shops selling local artists work. Pick up a memento of your Key West visit on T-shirt or get some Christmas stocking stuffers with beer bottle holders. You’ll find beach fashion and souvenirs, art galleries and curiosity shops. Eat inside or outside under the trees 5 Shop on Duval Street It’s popular, so if there’s no table when you arrive, just park yourself at said cocktail bar and watch the mixologist do his thing for a few minutes. Today it’s a really great indoor/outdoor venue for quintessential Key West food (jerk chicken, fish tacos and shrimp rolls) and great cocktails mixed in the hut outside. Over the years it’s been the venue for cock flighting, a bordello, a billiard hall, ice cream parlour and a gambling den. I had my eyes peeled for sharks through the clear turquoise of the sea and the reefs too! 4 Go to Blue Heaven for lunch or a cocktailīlue Heaven is an institution in Key West – and they do a HUGE wedge of Key Lime Pie (as you’ve seen in the pic above)!Įrnest Hemingway, a bit of a celeb about town back in the 30s, would referee boxing matches here. ![]() ![]() The US Army Base is located on an adjacent island and we flew close enough to see the Navy Seals all dressed in black training in the pool. I took a ten-minute heli flight from the international airport located here and it was an amazing way to literally get a birds’ eye view of Key West and beyond! Set behind a stone wall are lush grounds of historic Hemingway House. Hemingway House is a must see in Key West. He had an adventurous life, survived plane crashes in Africa and loved deep sea fishing in the Caribbean. In 1951, after marrying wife number four, he wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which finally won him the coveted Pulitzer. He also bought a farm in Havana Cuba which was their winter residence. ![]() He wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls here, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. It now stands as a museum dedicated to his legacy. He moved to Key West with his third wife in 1928, into this Spanish Colonial style house built in 1851 from rock hewn from the grounds. Hemingway was a newspaper reporter, war correspondent and a Nobel Prize winning novelist. We loved this little guy, he reminded us of our own cat – minus the extra toes! They are all named after famous people and also all have their own sleeping spot and live quite happily together, some on a book shelf in the shop, some on the bed, and this one on a bench seat under the trees. The 58 cats that live here at Hemingway Home and Museum were the highlight for me! 43 of them have six toes on each paw!! He was given the original six-toed cat (called Snow White) by a ship captain when they first lived here in the 1920s and since then, several litters have produced more of the anomaly. This was the most decadent pie I tasted, at Blue Heaven (see below) 2 Visit Ernest Hemingway’s home – and his cats! And if you want to make it at home you’ll love this simple Key Lime Pie recipe. They use real key limes down here (although the fruit has been struggling lately) and Kermit’s Key West Key Lime Shoppe is still ranked #1, located at 200 Elizabeth Street.īut you will find plenty of places to try this iconic sweet and tart pie, some with meringue topping, some with cream. In fact you really should try it in a few places – even the ice cream shop where they make frozen pies on a stick! You can’t come to Key West and not try the key lime pie. But if you only have a day on your cruise, here are some of our favorite things to do in Key West that includes must-see rights, where to eat and some great places for selfies! In one day there’s enough to see and do in the red circle area 1 Eat Key Lime Pie! My husband and I spent four days driving the Florida Keys from Miami to Key West and stayed three nights in Key West. So southern in fact, it has mile marker 0 as a street sign that people stop and photograph! ![]() Key West is a cute, colorful town at the very southern most tip of the Florida Keys, in fact this is the southern most tip of the continental United States. ![]()
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