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New Orleans - The Big Easy
Finally arrived 4 days late after Hurricane Isaac and fortunately New Orleans had been tidied up pretty well. Always wanted to chill out listening to music in New Orleans and it's been great. Bourbon Street is pretty tacky, but something that has got to be done. Managed to collect loads of beads from parade which was pretty cool :-) My favourite music venue was the spotted cat - great atmosphere and best bit was during band swapover where two bands joined up and jammed for 15 mins - ...
Ahhhhh, the Food
... seen there. The architecture was the result of Pitt asking several architects world-wide to come up with homes that met his energy-efficient mandate. Some of the styles are interesting to say he least.
The tour finished at some of the above ground ornate cemeteries in New Orleans. The burial process is interesting, at best, expecially if a family has more than one death in a year. There is only room for one at a time in ...
A dream come true in The Big Easy!!
... they're more docile than crocodiles, but still...she was a fairly feisty gator (the guide threw out a marshmallow to a young male gator and Nola went out and chased hi away). The guide had a little baby gator in his esky that he'd found a couple of weeks earlier and was keeping until he was big enough to be released. Bless.
We got back into town and had a yummy lunch (oyster po' boy and Cajun potatoes) before heading off on a city tour. ...
Sadly New Orleans was a Bust
... around there.
Just as they finished telling me this, another guy came into the room, I totally forget his name. He had a soft voice and lisp, thin and dark as a berry and eyes that darted around the room as he talked to me. He said he was Pearls assistant and the house manager and started giving me the rules of the house (of which there were very few he assured me). They were basically, clean up after yourself, contribute toilet paper, don't waste water, and never, ...
Laissez les bons temps rouler
... houses to restore the area but for example, building them with solar panels and energy efficient technology. The new houses are all of different designs, raised above the ground and will hopefully restore the once vibrant area. The 9th ward is also the area where you may have seen footage on TV on people clinging to their house roof in order to be rescued and escape the flood.
We left this area and drove across town towards ...