Sun Suites Metairie/New Orleans West
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The real New Orleans!
... we walked slowly back to the seaside. Watched some guys doing some breakdance. They were really good and entertaining. They made nearly of everyone who passed them a joke. ,) Good that Sarah and I didnt passed them. Then we walked back to the hotel and as a surprise everybody was already back!!! And they asked us were we been!? Lol. They thought we went for wee in McDonalds and couldnt find us. And were trying to find us, until they decided to do there own thing! Lol.
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Halloween in New Orleans
... up, but, it was time for us to be home.
Early the next morning we walked back through the Quarter to Café du Monde and enjoyed our coffee and begneits while reading the paper. There were only a dozen customers at that time of the morning and it was very cool to be sitting there reading the paper. The street sweepers were out in force, all of the bars were being hosed out and life was normal in New ...
Amtrak is amazing - fact
... town, as I have mentioned before, I had to wait a few hours before I could check in. During this time I read and wondered a little to see what I could of the town. It took 5 minutes. The whole place has crumbled and what community resources where once there have all gone, shut down as they have nothing to support anymore. Closed schools, shops and libraries all boarded up behind dusting hoardings that give the buildings a haunting feeling as if they to ...
City of the Dead
... an iron grid where the remains could drop through - instead they had a shaft at the back of the box. So when the time came to add a family member to the 'box' they used to use a long rake to push the previous remains towards the shaft at the back so there was room to introduce the newly deceased. Apparently this is where the term ' getting shafted' originated from! Butch our tour guide also told us about a couple of other phrases which originated from the ...
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 ...