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  New Orleans, Louisiana
Monday, April 4, 2011

The next morning we woke and drove the last two hours to reach New Orleans. We dropped the car off at the motel and caught a local bus, and then a street car, to reach the French Quarter. The first thing we did was catch a ferry across the Mississippi to Algiers point to get views back of the city. We then returned and took our time walking down the river front and around the French Quarter including the market, Bourbon street and Esplanade Avenue amongst others. The French Quarter is beautiful and it was fantastic to see all the architecture synonymous with the city. We looked in many gift shops, brought some old fashioned postcards, sampled the famous praline chocolate and in the market Lisa blew her head off my sampling some southern VERY HOT sauce. We then caught a street car (or trolley if you are from out of town, similar to what they have in San Francisco) to the Garden District. This was an area where some of the best examples of plantation buildings could be found and we ooohed and aaahed at the huge porches and large wrought iron balconies that came with most of these huge houses.

We then returned to the French Quarter where we had a delicious meal at the Royal Oyster House. Lisa sampled traditional southern dishes including jambalaya, gumbo and crawfish etouffe, Jon had a PoBoy (large sandwich) filled with fried catfish. Jon says his Po-Boy was 'fish-a-licious' (geek, says Lisa).

We then returned to Bourbon street where the atmosphere had changed. The street was now closed to traffic. We thought this was probably to prevent accidents as very drunk people staggered out of each place straight into the road. Everyone had a drink of some kind as they walked from one place to the next. The street has many bars that have offers, drinks promotions (most offer 3 for 1)and lots of places have live music. We sampled the local drink called the Hurricane that is made with rum while we people watched and listened to the music.

We made our way a few blocks down to Frenchman street where it is back to back Jazz bars. The street had a cool bohemian vibe and the night air was filled with music, mostly Jazz. People were on the street dancing, musicians were busking, again everyone had a drink in their hand (or a can) and the majority of the bars were packed with Jazz fans.

New Orleans is definitely an interesting place with lots of character and an excellent place to drink and listen to music and we are glad we experienced it first hand!

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View of New Orleans from the Mississippi	Jon putting his opinion forward	St Louis cathedral	Jazz music lines the streets
French Quarter market entrance	French market mural	Lisa tasting some VERYHOT sauce at the market	Billboard in New Orleans
Esplanade Avenue	Typical architecture	Typical architecture	Esplanade Avenue
New Orleans street	New Orleans store sign	New Orleans store sign	Bourbon street sign
New Orleans typical arcitecture	Bourbon street	Street vendor on Bourbon street	Canal street clock
Architecture in Garden District	Architecture in Garden District	Lisa with a taste of New Orleans	Jon enjoying his Po-Boy sandwich
Jon and his Hurricane drink	Lisa sipping on her Hurricane	Bourbon street at night	Street music on Frenchman street
Jazz bar on Frenchman street

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