Bye bye NOLA

Mississippi River

View of the St. Louis Cathedrale from Jackson Sqaure

Hot sauce tasting at the French Market - my kind of stuff!

Flora, Sian, Thomas, me, Nadine

På vores sidste dag i NOLA startede vi med en tur på "Café du Monde" - Verden's café, som er rimeligt berømt og altid super travl!

Det eneste de serverer er kaffe/the/kakao og "beignets" - franske doughnuts/klejner - kald dem hvad du vil :-) 

De franske beignets kommer i øvrigt dækket i florsukker! 

Efter en sund og nærende morgenmad gik vi en tur langs Mississippi River inden vi var en tur på "fransk" marked.. 

Der var ikke specielt meget fransk over det, udover at der var en enkelt delikatesse hvor man kunne købe lidt franske oste m.fl., til gengæld havde de massere af gode sandwiches som vi fik prøvet af inden vi gik tilbage mod bilen og satte kursen mod Valdosta. 

På turen til parkeringshuset blev der tid til et gruppebillede på Bourbon Street samt et par fotos af husene og balkonerne i det franske kvarter. 

New Orleans er en smuk by, og min absolutte yndlingsting er hvordan man - i hvert fald under Mardi Gras - kunne høre et nyt lille jazzband spille på hvert gadehjørne.

Hvis man ønsker at opleve Mardi Gras, men ikke er helt klar på at det bliver totalt fyldt med mennesker, så er weekenden før, weekenden før, en rigtig god mulighed for at få massere af Mardi Gras stemning, imens man stadigvæk kan komme frem og tilbage :-) 

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On our last day in NOLA we started by going to "Café du Monde" - the World's Café, which is pretty famous and always busy!

They only serve coffee/tea/cocoa and "beignets" - French doughnuts - or at least similar to :-) 

The French Beignets are by the way served covered in powder sugar!

After a healthy and nutritious breakfast we went for a walk along the Mississippi River before we ended up at the "French" Market..

There wasn't exactly a whole lot of "French" there but a small deli with French cheeses amongst others.  However they did have a lot of yummy sandwiches, which we tried out before heading back to the car and set the GPS for Valdosta. 

On the way back to the parking deck we stopped at Bourbon Street to take a group picture, and we also got some snapshots of the houses and balconies in the French Quarter.

New Orleans is a beautiful city, and my absolute favorite thing about it was how - at least during Mardi Gras - you would hear a new jazz band playing on each corner.

If you want to experience Mardi Gras, but don't want to go while it is over crowded, the weekend before the weekend before is a really good opportunity to get the Mardi Gras atmosphere while still being able to actually get back and forwards :-)