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... selling sets of t-shirts with "Drunk 1", "Drunk 2" etc on them. But Frenchman Street (where all the real music is) was a blast. We heard Delfeayo Marsalis and his big band do a set and it was AWESOME. We laughed when he got some local young-uns up on stage to perform with him and one had to keep yanking his pants up during his solo.
And when you leave the club, there´s music coming from every other bar on the street!
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Grenades, Hurricanes & Tattoos
... and had a great seafood dinner. Before our dinner we went and got a drink, of course. New Orleans is famous for its mixed drinks that nobody really knows what's in them. All everybody knows is that they taste awesome and get you drunk pretty quickly. Tonight we were drinking Hand Grenades. They were pretty tasty but after only one, mixed with an empty stomach, I was feeling a little tipsy. However, my awesome dinner settled me down. I also ate ...
New Orleans, Cajun Country and San Antonio TX
... to get a Hand Grenade drink from Tropic Isle. For those not familiar with them, Hand Grenades are ubiquitous around the French Quarter. They are served in a tall fluorescent green plastic glass that resembles a hand grenade at the bottom and then has a tall spout on top. The drink is served with a long straw and is garnished with a small, green plastic hand grenade toy. It was good and had a melon flavor. They give the illusion ...
" Laissez les bons temps rouler "
... of the parades all of St Charles was barricaded and we didn't see a streetcar, I don't think they were running!! Anyway we did what we always do and that is walk.. walk and walk. I had already checked out the bus route on Magazine and so we hopped on the #11 to the museum... it was really well laid out, very interesting and well worth the visit. After a couple of hours I'd had enough though so we went back outside and ...
New Orleans
... New Orleans, Louisiana), Crescent City, the City that Care Forgot, Hollywood South - but my personal favourite is The Big Easy. There doesn’t appear to be a consensus as to where and when this sobriquet came into being, but one story says that it was coined by musicians at the beginning of the 20th century who gravitated here because there was so much work that they never had a problem finding a gig. Considering the amount of live music still around this is the one ...
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