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The real New Orleans!
... Well they will regret it later! ,) For lunch i had a local dish called Gumbo. Basically its a spicy rice soup with chicken or seafood. But very tasty.
Then we discovert New Orleans by daylight. Walked to the sea side and wanted to catch a ferry, but we just missed so we carried on walking. Instead we saw the end of a parade and saw Santa!! ,) Hmm, sooo cute the little kids there. When they saw Santa they were screaming: "Momy, look!! There is SANTA!!!" Lol! And in ...
Halloween in New Orleans
... a good photo opportunity. Patience is a virtue and the streetside bar was convenient.
At 7 p.m. the drunken crowd on the street finally started making its way through the Quarter. It wasn’t Mardi Gras, but there were two brass bands, hordes of costumed drunks, horse drawn carriages with bead throwing revelers and two fire engines. Dropping in behind the parade, Barb managed to walk through a ...
Amtrak is amazing - fact
... of what a town it once was as art deco and post war towers still appear on every road. Today however, they are all boarded up and graffiti sprayed. I thought I’d stroll in the late afternoon sun down Beale Street and choose a place to stop in at every so often to have a drink and hear real soul, rock n’ roll and blues. I thought I could sit at the bars and talk to locals as I have done everywhere to date and loved every minute of.
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City of the Dead
... cremation was not an option for Catholic people. Apparently there were some people from Haiti around at the time (1700 to 1800s) who said that they had a similar problem and they outlined what they did. The French in New Orleans took all this on board and made a few adjustments and came up with above ground burials - basically it's a self cremation. You'll see in my photos what looks like a big tomb above ground - the front name plate comes off and inside ...
Taking It Easy
This is a top pick!
... too slowly. There are all sorts of reasons but the end result was the same: almost 1500 lost their lives.
Collection of decomposing bodies only started 10 days after Katrina first struck. All efforts first went to rescuing survivors. Then in the aftermath people tried to make sense of their new reality, the loss of loved ones and destruction of their property. There were loads of reports of social unrest - fights, looting, theft, drug ...
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