Sun Oak Guest House New Orleans
2020 Rue Burgundy New Orleans, Louisiana, 70116, United States
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New Orleans & Hurricane Cocktails!
... of fun. Our tour guide was one of the guys on a Foxtel TV series called "Swamp Men".
We had a free night to do what we wanted for dinner and with meet up with a girl we had become friendly with and asked the hotel for a restaurant recommendation with real local food. We ended up at a family restaurant which had southern fried chicken (nothing like KFC!), stuffed capsicum and Jambalaya.
We hadn’t planned to go out for that long but decided to ...
Who dat say they gonna beat dem Saints?
... Instead they ‘tailgate’. They go to the stadium and hang outside
barbequing, drinking and watching the game either on a big screen TV outside
the main entrance or in their custom made tailgating wagons in the surrounding
car parks. We were walking distance from the game so we went along and did
ourselves some tailgatin’ too.
We spent the afternoon in Champions Square drinking bud and
bourbon, ...
Taking It Easy
... Mario revelled in the jambalaya, and it was Po-boys that kept us filled at lunchtime. Picture a smaller version of a Cape Town gatsby but alas, they had no masala steak ones and no Mrs Balls chutney!
Louisiana is also known as the home of hot sauce, and you know how much we love our hot sauce! The hotter, the better! A pilgrimage to the Tabasco store was a foregone conclusion. The above-the-ground tombs were a sight to behold, a necessity given water ...
Day 12 - Thursday
... melting in our hands as we walked along. We also stumbled across a new shop that was having its first day of business - a toffee maker called Magnolia Bay. JG took a picture of the ladies and we'll post it to their Facebook page so they have a memento of that first day.
We made it to Blue Frog just at 6, closing time. We made our selections and sat at Whole Foods to enjoy our iced chocolates and our chocolate bunny and frog, (Solid ...
The Big Easy, jazzy times!
What a cool and pretty city!
Jazzmusic all around in the streets, artsy places, beautiful houses...
My host works at an edible garden just like Lauren, so I visited that. And just as I was there there was the Frenchquarter festival, amazingly good music, but soooo crowded. On Sunday I headed with some couchsurfers to a strawberry fair, what really felt like a 'southern' experience... everyone was member of one or another ...


