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The Jazz Festival
Arrived in New Orleans after a long day travelling. Left Playa Del Carmen at 9.00am and didn't arrive in New Orleans at our accommodation until 5.00pm. Staying in a lovely B&B in the Garden District of NewOrleans - about 12 blocks from the French Quarter. It is a beautiful old house with a grand piano next to the dining room. There is a anoher …
Ups and downs in New Orleans
... the unique cemeteries here (the bodies have to be buried above ground as 6 foot down there's water), to learn about the voodoo and to see the garden district that the Americans built to rival the French Quarter. Alan hated NO with a passion though. He found it smelly and dirty with too many homeless people. It is a bit smelly along Bourbon St but you get homeless in most big cities. I think he had just had enough of the traffic and the stress of the ...
The Crescent City
... tubes! We stopped by several clubs to listen to bands and jazz ensembles along the way.
We didn't have the time to take a ride on the MIssissippi in a paddleboat, so we took a free ferry ride on the Mississippi instead! At least we can say we traveled down the Mississippi!
Tomorrow we head over the Gulf Coast to The Villages. We have been on the go constantly since we left home so we are looking forward to relaxing at the Villlages.
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Cross country really means something in America
... to Birmingham. By this point we had passed the 1000 mile mark, even if the last 60 miles had taken near on 2 hours! I can't say it looks much like the Birmingham at home, though the accent is equally funny. Its a lot yellower than the West Midlands. After Brimingham the terrain became more flat and urban.
We went down through Alabama into Mississippi where we once agian went rural, and it was a bit more swampy, but again not a huge amount to see. I chatted with a ...
Mini golf (finally) and carnival in new orleans
... In New Orleans you can just walk round the streets with the drinks you've brought so it was half a street party as many of the bars spilled out onto the roads, lots of fun.
Next day was spent exploring the city, which is beautiful, lots of old style French colonial houses in the bits we saw. We also happened across an Easter parade which basically involved lots of floats and music and people throwing necklaces ...