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If these houses could tell stories, I wonder what they would say.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n So come on a walk-about with me on Caroline Street.<\/p>\n Click on the link to open another window to youtube. Let it play in the background as you read on. Woman Goin’ Crazy on Caroline Street.<\/a><\/p>\n Today Caroline street is different. So I thought I would take you on a \u201cwalkabout\u201d down the street\u2026 if only in my mind. I\u2019m including pics so you will get the feel.<\/p>\n Starting at the corner of Duval and Caroline there\u2019s the Bull & Whistle. It\u2019s one of my favorite bars to stop into and have a frozen concoction to help me hang on. \u201cThe Bull\u201d is the downstairs area. Starting about noon and going well into the night they have some kind of live entertainment. If you sit by one of the open windows right on Duval, there\u2019s plenty of entertainment out there doing the \u201cDuval Crawl.\u201d<\/p>\n Check out the roof top garden. It will be an eye opener<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n The second floor is the Whistle. I can\u2019t say much about it because I haven\u2019t spent much time there. The Whistle does have a balcony all around so you can watch the Duval Crawl from there. I suspect it\u2019s a great place to watch any of the hundreds of doo-dah parades down Duval.<\/p>\n The third floor, actually the roof of the Bull & Whistle, is… well… I\u2019ll leave that for you to discover for yourself. Go there on a cool afternoon (in Key West that means the low 80s) or one weekend in the evening after the sun sets. I promise you it will be an eye-opener for you.<\/p>\n We start our walkabout heading toward the old seaport\u2026 away from Mallory Square and the Cruise port. By the time you are one short block away from Duval, all the craziness is left behind. Caroline becomes a sedate, almost stately neighborhood.<\/p>\n Tall mature trees and palms\u00a0line both sides of the road and almost form a canopy covering the street in some places. The houses are mostly two-story with a mix of colors and surrounded by white picket fences. Most have a wide veranda around the bottom floor and a balcony around the top floor.<\/p>\n Many of the houses have been divided into small apartments. Most of those are little more than the size an efficiency in any other town… around 300 square feet. Each one costing way more a month than the original cost to build the entire house. Such is the cost of living there.<\/p>\n Sedate and stately just one block from Duval<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n Walk a little more down toward the seaport and a bit after you pass Elisabeth Street, you will come to my favorite little coffee house in all of Cayo Hueso… The Coffee Plantation at 713 Caroline St.<\/p>\n The Coffee Plantation is half coffee house, half art store. I found the place because an artist I know once lived near there. I always stopped in hoping to see some of the artists work or to maybe run into the artist. But that was not to be… the artist had moved before I found the Coffee Plantation.<\/p>\n Have a “cupa” and enjoy the “mullet wrap.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n Just the same, I still go to the Coffee Plantation every time I\u2019m in Key West. Besides good coffee, you can have a seat in one of the couches inside or around the outside porch. Inside you\u2019ll see some magnificent local art. I always want to take some home… until I see the prices.<\/p>\n So I just sit there and sip my coffee and maybe read the local newspaper… the \u201cKey West Citizen.\u201d Some call that paper the \u201cmullet wrap.\u201d Like most newspapers, it has fallen on hard times lately, but it\u2019s always an interesting read. While sitting there, inside or outside, it\u2019s more than likely that you will strike up a conversation with another of the patrons. It seems like most people are friendly there.<\/p>\n Next up… Caroline Street, part 2<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It seems the last few days I\u2019ve been obsessing about Key West. OK\u2026 maybe I\u2019m always obsessing about the place, but the last few days especially so. Anytime I\u2019m overdue a trip to The Rock I begin obsessing. To give … Continue reading ![\"Check](\"https:\/\/www.kokomoman.com\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/091-1024x682.jpg\")
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