Two boats came ashore Sunday morning just hours apart, bringing 45 migrants to Fort Lauderdale and Lauderdale-By-The-Sea. Some were caught, but not all.
Baby alligators and Everglades – it s Florida baby!
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To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. This week we revisit Simon Thomson’s trip to Florida destination Fort Lauderdale.
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Florida has a fearsome reputation for hurricanes, alligators and hanging chads, but in this vast sea of crazy, there is an island of tranquility. Its name is Fort Lauderdale. Long established as a place to go for fun in the sun, with a long sandy beach, the wild beauty of the Everglades, and easy access to the cosmopolitan excess of Miami, Fort Lauderdale has something to appeal to every kind of traveller, and what it lacks in novelty it makes up for in comfortable, well-established and smoothly managed tourist experiences. This is an outstanding destination for mass market luxury.