Duval Street Ch 11

After Hemingway’s house we went for a walk in Duval Street, and search for some food.

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We stopped by in a french bakery right on Duval Street.

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Duval Street is a very colorful and active street.

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So after that we left and started walking in Duval street, if you’re not familiar this is where all the stuff happens in Key West. A lot of stores, bars and restaurants. My mom purchased a couple of things, I am not big on shopping but I was able to stay busy taking pictures while they shopped.

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This store was all about Key Lime products.

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I am sure everyone knows this by now, but for those who don’t. Key West is a very gay town, funny enough I have been there for any of their pride events. Actually I have never to any pride parade ever, lol. Not my thing I guess.

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Just a beautiful day to walk around Duval Street.

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They had amazing art work here.

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I feel in love with that sting ray, but I knew not to even ask for the price. The entire store looked very pricey.

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Key west has the oldest running theater or something like that. I remember reading something like that on trip advisor, but not even sure if its this one.

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I took this one form the middle of the street 

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Then mom noticed the restaurant that she had dinner the night before, it was all covered with dollar bills that past costumers had stapled on the walls. I asked her how the food was and she said it was good. Since it was getting close to noon I asked them if they wanted to grab a bite and they agreed, so we decided to head in and ask for a table.

Service was good, friendly and fast. The food was just ok, I got the grouper sandwich, I really think that was not grouper. That is my favorite fish, but it just did not seem like grouper. My mom got the same, and my aunt got a burrito which she loved.

Live entertainment, it can be seen by those just walking on Duval Street.

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Unique venues like this get a lot more traffic than the neighboring ones. I will say that I would not had eaten there otherwise. I actually had an amazing grouper sandwich once driving to Key Largo in a tinny shack in the middle of nowhere. Much better than this place and for 1/2 the price. But I guess you pay for atmosphere here?

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We finished our meal and headed back to Duval street walking towards the car.

Here is a short video of Duval street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZyGi7IA37Y

Overall it was a fun and relaxing lunch, we needed the break after all the running we had done. I was starting to get tired and worn out. We did a lot of walking that day.

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I missed it, but those people had a couple of ugly dogs. I forgot the breed name, the ones had have almost no hair.

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Mom purchased some jewelry, it was on sale. I think she paid like $4 for that bracelet, she also got a necklace.

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After we got back to the car we headed back to port, I still wanted to go to the key west aquarium. The aquarium is located right there in port, that is why I left it as our last activity just in case we were running out of time. But we still had lots of time available.

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Here are more pictures of the statues.

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This is the shipwreck museum, it is right across from the Aquarium.

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My mom and aunt took a picture with the tour trolley.

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Hopefully you enjoyed my Duval Street page 🙂

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