Magical Miami is in the pink

Half the celebrity world - including singer Rita Ora and Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley - have been carousing on Miami’s famous beach

Everyone else in the know (and with a few million to spare) is buying up property. Last year, more than 4.9 million cruise passengers sailed through its port. What’s going on? Well, the climate helps. While we’re shivering and sheltering from the rain in the UK, the weather in this part of Florida is up in the mid-20s.

The changing arts scene is upping the temperature, too. Art Basel - a cultural showcase which stages art fairs around the world - regularly brings in dealers and innovative artists. Last year’s festival was bigger than ever, with 77,000 visitors.

A new art museum, Perez, opened in 2013, featuring contemporary works from the US, Caribbean and Latin America. And there’s a lively street art scene, the best of which can be seen in the former factory area Wynward. Here, one wall - with its wild splashes of colour by graffiti artist Rafael Sliks - is not dissimilar to the creations of Jackson Pollock.

And then there is that beach. It’s on your doorstep. Skip across the boardwalk and you can explore its ten miles of sand and sample the life and soul of Miami. One morning, I take an Aeroga class – a mixture of yoga and aerobics – that has my heart thumping.

On a more leisurely ramble, I see people practising yoga on the sand, wiry retirees walking purposefully with little dogs, cyclists, and even someone on roller blades. Long live the Nineties.

More people are out and about in the shadier afternoons - but despite the many hotels which back onto its sands, it is still not crowded. Brightly painted lifesaving posts make colourful markers.