New Orleans - The Images
Here are a few of the photos I took in New Orleans - there are heaps more,
plus lots from San Francisco so I thought I'd just post the New Orleans
highlights first whilst they're still fresh in my mind.
This is BoJo - a youngish mule learning the ropes of negotiating traffic,
pedestrians, fly by Ambulances, firetrucks and the occasional maniac cyclist
as he takes his passengers o a half hour tour of the French Quarter. I liked him,
at one point there was a large thick metal sheet partially covering the road. Bojo
decided to reverse then and there. James - his driver - got him over it by walking
him through it and after that he was raring to go.
This is la Fitte's Bar. This bar is the oldest bar in the United States and apparently was only one of two buildings
to survive the fires of 1906. So a bar and church lived to serve it's patrons - both sinners and saints. James wondered
if it was the only bar in the States that had an elementary school built less than 200 yards away from it.
The Cornstalk Fence Hotel - a beautiful picturesque place that was built so the wife of the owner would not feel homesick
for Iowa - of which we were informed that we would probably never visit since there's nothing there but corn. I'm sure the Iowans
would dispute this. Also the place where Elvis filmed his last movie singing from that very balcony. Of course James
was pretty sue he'd seen Elvis the day previously at the Cafe Du Monde.
The Natchez! A very impressive and historic vessel that is one of only two genuine paddleboat steamers left in the US.
Food was good, the margaritas excellent, the dixie land jazz group loud and the ride very smooth.
The famous Baked Alaska at Antonio's deserves two images at least - this dessert is now in my top five but I don't think
I'll be coming across it any time soon in Perth sadly. It's meringue and cream and ice cream and flamed on the outside.
The rest of the food we had was just as good - but this one wins prettiest presentation award.
Sunset on the Mississippi. Talk about peaceful serenity under a warm, balmy softly breezing night sky.