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New Orleans Slideshow
Travel Blogs from New Orleans, United States
Good times in N'awlins
Just emerged from five days of luxury in the beautiful Southern city of New Orleans. The highlight of my stay was probably where I stayed - a gorgeous old American mansion in the historic Garden District with stained glass windows and a wide verandah ...
Our Last Night in New Orleans
... brewery. Diane chatted with us and told us a bit of her story. Her family, the Blanques (pronounced Blonk!) has been in New Orleans since the 1700s, and she has ancestors who were reportedly in cahoots with Jean Lafitte himself. The family had a lot ...
Saturday Night's Alright (For Music)
... Quarter. The museum, founded in 1950, is just what the name implies. In 1823 the first licensed pharmacist in the United States, Louis J. Dufilho, Jr., opened an apothecary shop here. The Creole-style town house doubled as his home, and he cultivated ...
French quarter
I met up with my contiki group at our hotel & we headed straight into action, last night we went on a Paddle boat cruise on the missisipi river & then out to bourbon street to try the local specialties. Today I went down to the riverside area & walked ...
Onward to New Orleans
... The lunch plan for today is Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville on the outside porch for shrimp po' boy's and boat drinks to people-watch. New Orleans is a great city for doing that! Tomorrow we'll be standing in line for Galatoire's -- will share ...
Takin' it to Church
Church down here is something else. I just got out of Sunday services at the First United Methodist Church in Central City New Orleans. I was the only white guy in the entire congregation. Talk about an experience. The first thing that ...
Creole Country
We woke up early, packed up our tent and car, and took to the road for New Orleans. We drove through Mississippi and stopped only for lunch at Cracker Barrel, a common Southern slow food chain. We arrived in Nawlins (as it is pronounced here) around 3pm ...
New Orleans.. not so new..
... . Sorry, biggish post. We hit the road to New Orleans and checked into our awesome crusty old full of character hotel. But New Orleans is like that everywhere. We then jumped on the steam boat and rode the MIGHTY Mississippi. ...
New Orleans
... mieux. A propos de Disney un deuxième bon filme après Wall-E c’est la princesse et la grenouille; ça se passe à New Orleans , une princesse noire, avec musique, voo doo et tout le kit. A voir. Malheureusement nous ne restons pas longtemps car ...
The forgotten city
This is a top pick! ... being open but we had to keep on driving. It got steadily worse as we passed fields of caravans where the people of new orleans obviously lived now. Well after finding the campsite and seeing it was closed we decided to forget looking and head back into ...
30th July - On the road again
... and refused to move. David and I were repeatedly told 'leave me, you guys go on ahead'. 'Oh yeah, leaving you in a gutter in New Orleans sounds like a logical thing to do!' hahaha. We eventually dragged her back to her room but I have been a bastard and ...
Mardi Gras in Nawlins!
... me though, big mistake. I thought it was just a rum and coke. Sampling the 'Hand Grenade' the following night, marketed as New Orleans' strongest drink and a lurid green sickly sweet combination, was an even bigger mistake. I needed a few days to recover ...
Out of the frying pan.....
... on a bench for a bit, where there was someone listening to radio. They announced (at 11:30am) that the temperature in New Orleans had hit 104 degrees, with a 91% humidity rate (I'm never entirely sure what this percentage actually means, but it was ...
Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez
... Pitt’s much criticized ‘Make it Right’ houses which, although not in keeping with the traditional style of New Orleans architecture, were stylish in their own way and were providing homes for people who had decided to return to the ...
Bourbon Street on a Friday
... fighting on the steps of a cathedral but when he persisted, what could I do? I delivered a 'coup de grace' (hey, its New Orleans, French phrases are indicated) and wiped him on the steps. Hopefully I will be forgiven, but rather than retreating to the ...
A look back--Trip Summary
... as they knew it. The new is alive. The new is energized. The new is young and in the process of forming. The new is knowledgable, and knows a better life not only exists, but is possible. I will forever remember the many frustrations--from buying ...
Day 17 - New Orleans
... to be a long day for some. This is Madge's final post of the evening 'Pope I but too ma y of me a f the GATT up'. Once again, if anyone can offer a translation, I would like to know. I hope she has gone to bed. New Orleans is not safe. ...
Pulled Pork and Gas
... neighborhoods, a well kept resort area. We continued on the back roads and across Alabama and Mississippi before rolling into New Orleans. It was raining heavily and we were dripping when we checked into our nice hotel. The weather prevented us from ...
Walking, Talking and Tarot cards!
... "awesome" and it showed as I woke at 11.30am this morning.... after a quick shower Shelley and I took the time to explore New Orleans during the day.... it feels much safer in the daylight and was full of hustle and bustle, similar to I guess London.... ...
The Big Easy
... eine tolle Zeit. Unser Hotel war im French Quarter, wir konnten also alles zu Fuss erkunden und auch das Nightlife geniessen. In New Orleans geht wirklich (wieder) die Post ab. Es ist auch der einzige Ort in Amerika, wo man in aller Oeffentlichkeit mit ...
Who Dat?!?
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 THE PARADES BEGIN! In fact, Mardi Gras parades started January 6th this year which is well before Fat Tuesday on February 21st. And it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from, or how many times you've already ...
New Orleans
... , except cleaner, cooler and much better live music. In fact the atmosphere is much more relaxed and less oppressive. (I prefer New Orleans.) Downtown is really cool and clean but I shouldn't have missed that bus when I could have seen more ...
The Big Easy
We left Nashville on Sunday morning and headed West and then South towards New Orleans. We passed Mephis and headed South into Mississippi. All we really saw of the state were the welcome centre where the woman was extremely excited to get our home town ...
The end is nigh....
... up at 7pm and headed off for a meal. After dinner we went to the Old French Market coffee shop to sample some traditional New Orleans Beignets (fried doughnuts to the rest of us). Very nice they were too, despite me nearly choking on the icing ...
Live Music & Madness in New Orleans, LA
... a few good places for food & ended up in a little independent place in the French Quarter, enjoying the famous New Orleans cuisine, comprising jambalaya, rice and beans & gumbo! It was truly delicious! And with a stomach full ...
New Orleans...N'awlins.....The Big Easy
... can tell you about the girls that @*&%$£@*&%£%%$£^ with a *&^$£$$££% and then they £%&^%(&^@ after *&^%$*%£$%....New Orleans has a very sleazy side to it. Or maybe you’d like to find out about how unbelievably ...
Initial response. Flame away.
... but without the heated and air-conditioned FEMA trailers parked on the curbs. Chiang Mai, Thailand, with a population roughly the size of New Orleans, had two flash floods this fall as deep as the waters here that each lasted days. I remember the Thai's ...
LIVE
WE BELIEVE in the Resurrection and the Life; therefore, we love and serve as we LIVE in him. Whew! What a day it's been. We’re extremely busy all day, and enjoying every minute of it! Now, before I go on, I must apologize if any of these blogs ...
Jazz Fest 2012
Today was Jazz Fest day – it was the day I was meant to see John Mayer play live in New Orleans but due to his uncontrollable illnesses he wasn’t able to attend. All that aside the lineup was going to be sensational! We got ourselves ready and ...
Toilet #2
... nbsp; The inappropriately named dish, Jewish Coonass, was delicious. It was New York Jewish inspired meal meets New Orleans: a stack of potato latkes covered with sauteed spinach, easy-over eggs, and crawfish etouffee. DELISH! Etouffee ...