Pictures from New Orleans

 Street scenes at dusk. 

 

 The French Quarter is great for walking, particularly the lower French Quarter (it's more residential).  Only 13 blocks wide and 6 blocks long, we quickly learned to get around the area without a map.

 

 Jackson Square, with the St. Louis Cathedral in the background, is the dividing line between the Upper and Lower French Quarters.  Upper means upriver, not upscale or more affluent.  No one talks about east or west, or north or south.  It's all upriver or downriver.  That took me a while to get used to.

 

 Having a good time with one of the costume from a street entertainer.

 Gas lamps everywhere.  They are always burning, and in the evening add a soft, romantic glow to the buildings.

 

 The Beauregard-Keyes house, just up the street from our hotel.  General Beauregard lived here for 18 months after the Civil War.  Later, the author Frances Parkinson Keyes bought the house and lived here.  It was is a restored to what it would have looked like in the late 1860s and early 1870s when Gen. Beauregard lived here.

 

 Enjoying jambalaya at the Coffee Pot Café. This place was recommended on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.  The jambalaya was delicious.  Worth the visit.

 

 The Garden District has beautiful Victorian-era houses.  Definitely the $$$ section of New Orleans.  One of the houses that several people on our walking tour wanted to see was the Manning House - apparently significant if you follow American football.  I had to ask my son Chris who Peyton Manning was.  The picture below is the house where he, and his brother (also a football player) grew up.