New Orleans Neighborhoods

This is the last post on our trip to New Orleans. We really enjoyed the city, as well as the outlying areas. This blog is to show you different places not covered in the previous posts.


New Orleans had several neighborhoods that, at some point in time on our trip, went through! Some of the pictures may be a little blurry since they were taken from moving car or from the street car!
The offramp we used most to go to the city was Elysian Fields.
Along Elysian Fields, were the small, colorful, and quaint homes





and shops



We took the St. Charles streetcar, the parade route at Mardi Gras, as evidenced by the beads in the trees and wires along the route.

It took us into the Business District, where there were tall buildings from a past era,





Mansions,


including the one that houses the Latter Memorial Branch library,


Tulane and


Loyola Universities,


parks with various sculptures,
,



the Garden District, with all of it's charming, historical victorian mansions.





Including author Ann Rice home


We also happened to drive past Notre Dame (There were a LOT of colleges, and universities in New Orleans!)


We also visited the French Market, the nations oldest city marketplace that 's been active since 1791, on the other side of the French Quarter.






We had our taste of Muffalletta (and took no picture!). We split one, but it could have fed all four of us! It is a great sandwich with salami, ham, swiss ad olive salad, warmed and on a BIG round french bread! It was great.
We also had to get beignets (french donut) at Cafe Du Monde, the original coffee stand established in 1862.


YUM!!
We accomplished one thing on this trip, besides seeing ALMOST everything... we ate a sample of each of the five culinary wonders of New Orleans: The Po-boy, Gumbo, Jambalaya, Beignets, and Muffalettas. We also had the bread pudding, and determined Copeland's had the best! (They also had the best cheesecake!!)

And of course, we could not resist the fresh shrimp..... 10 pounds of it!!


And can you believe it, after all the eating we did, we still lost weight? I think it was all of the walking and sweating we did!

We plan to be home for a couple of months now, but who knows... something may just spark our interest and away we go!