Happy Holidays to everyone! We're back in Pensacola but I have several posts on New Orleans to catch up on over the next few days. BTW, we're looking at possible tornadoes for this afternoon. Should be fun!
Everyone know about New Orleans cooking. I enjoyed the alligator sausage po-boy for lunch. New Orleans also has its own unique look. There are statues in small parks.
Old
fashioned gas lights. As an environmentalist, it's wasteful to have lights on during the day using a non-renewable resource and forming greenhouse gases. OK, it's pretty.
Wonderful
wrought iron and balconies.
A lot of the houses are very colorful. Shotgun
houses are named from the ability to open the front and back doors of the house
and shoot straight through (don’t try this at home!).
Laffitte’s
Blacksmith Shop Bar is listed as the oldest bar in the U.S and was built
between 1722 and 1732. It is named after
Jean Laffitte who was the leader of the group of pirates (or privateers or
smugglers) that helped supply and fight in the Battle of New Orleans. He may or may not have had a base at this bar. It looked like a nice quiet bar, but it was
too early in the day for us to start drinking.
Very
large and old live oak trees in the streets. These trees are plenty strong enough to have survived several hurricanes.
Details
on a downtown firestation.
Even
burnt out buildings are interesting.
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