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Bloody loved New Orleans and it was nice to finally get out of Florida. I was expecting absolute devastation still from hurricane Katrina one year ago, but where I stayed in the French Quarter efforts were doubled to bring it back to form. The true spirit of the place was still there as it only took one morning in the place to sell it to me. I took a steamboat ferry across the missisippi, went to Mardi Gras world, a real voodoo house and saw the actual house of the rising sun (from the legendary song). At night I hit the amazing Bourbon Street. This was laid out with loads of live jazz bars from the seedy to the gospel (jazz originated from New Orleans after all). I ate a lot of the finest seafood, including crawfish, jambala and gumbo. Then painted the town red, i was drinking hand grenades and hurricanes; two seperate drinks, with similar effects. My hotel was just around the corner so it wasnt hard to stagger back. I also met some crack heads who can play the mean harmonica for a buck. Beautiful place, food, drink and of course the people.
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