Ernest Hemingway's Florida

Above, Sloppy Joe's Bar, Ernest Hemingway's favorite Key West watering hole. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

During our stop in Key West, Florida during our cruise to Cuba, I went to the Hemingway House to see where Ernest Hemingway lived in the late 1930s.

I also toured Key West aboard a trolley bus that meandered around the town. Some of the places we drove past, such as Sloppy Joe's, are Hemingway-related.

Above, Hemingway House in Key West. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

InsideHook has an article on some of the haunts in Florida Hemingway used to frequent.

They begin it with:

Sparse of prose and generous with Martinis, Ernest Hemingway was nothing if not a literary and lifestyle legend. The iconic writer’s alpha male appeal has paved the way for no shortage of stories about his exploits — some canonical, like the three-month safari that resulted in a lion as a trophy, and others anecdotal, like his claim that he liberated the Ritz bar in Paris from the Nazis, or that he contributed to the invention of the Bloody Mary.

Hemingway lived just shy of 62 years, and he crammed more than most into those six decades. After his military service, he embarked on four marriages and countless adventures, from Paris to Madrid, Havana to Key West. And there’s nowhere quite like Miami to live large in his image.

To read more, go here.