Michele Filippelli 
Florida and the Caribbean in black and white 

Hi dear friends, I was lucky enough to make a trip to Florida
for a month and I was hosted by a friend known on the web through my tube
of you tube named ‘Michele Expert’ he is called Fran K Daniels and lives in
Naples. I live in Calabria (Italy) and it was the first time I took a
plane, no less than 8500 kilometers non-stop from Rome to Miami. I found my
brother Fran K and his wife Ellie at the exit of the airport and after two
and a half hours we arrived at his villa in Naples. Naples is a small but
beautiful Florida town where many American retirees live to live in the sea
and in peace their retirement. Frank is a lover of Italian cuisine and I
have been putting you on a tube for years of great Calabrian dishes. We
cooked together a few times but then we traveled both in the Caribbean and
in the Everglades. We spent together a week-long cruise departing from
Miami and then visiting the legendary Key West, Coco Cay’s private beach,
Nassau, the imposing Atlantic Paradise Hotel (Island Paradise) with its
fabulous aquarium, then the Naples beach. and the nightlife of the clubs,
the Naples zoo. In this month from 7 February to 7 March 2018 I admired a
world that I did not know and having the passion of photography I made this
photo book in pdf format of my adventure in black and white because I think
it is beautiful and fascinating. The photos you see start from Naples, then
an exploratory visit walking on a wooden bridge of an area of ​​the
Everglades, close encounters with alligators and snakes gave me chills and
fear but everything went well, then on the Royal cruise ship to the Key
West, visit of the legendary city and return to the ship, then a day on the
private beach of Coco Cay, then Nassau and Island Paradise among the
wonders of the Atlantic Paradise Resort. All beautiful and spectacular I
had never seen such enchanting and majestic places! The last two weeks of
vacation, we have lived in many places in Florida and could not miss a ride
with motorboat in the Everglades marshes. Then, after the end of my trip to
Florida, we visited the Naples zoo and did not miss the emotions that both
the animals like giraffes and dromedaries transmitted to me. I was very
close to the Daniels family and they too were excited when we said goodbye
to the Miami airport, it binds us a friendship happened by chance because
of my video of you tube cooking that I did with mom Rosa who left me a few
months to which Fran K was very close and considered her a second mother.
Thanks to the American people that you welcomed me as a star and have made
me live a wonderful month with you of which I will bring an indelible
memory and I hope that my book can reach many of you will make you
protagonists of my spending holiday in Florida hosted by an exceptional man
named Fran K Daniels. A hug to all of you and a warm greeting from Michele
Filippelli, Cropalati (CS) Italy.