It was a good job we'd seen a lot the day before as this day we spent mostly hungover! After a brilliant night out we suffered on this day (Laura especially!) so we took a while to get going in the morning! We eventually made it to the nice dark, cool internet cafe for a little while, before taking the streetcar (not the taxi comapny from Corrie, that's what they call their tram system) along the waterfront to a large shopping centre called the Riverwalk. We wer...

I am writing this the morning after our big night out in New Orleans so you'll have to forgive me if it's not very good, or if there are spelling mistakes and typos! (It's Laura by the way, Dave isn't sufferring as much as I am today). We enjoyed our fist lie-in on our first day in New Orleans and slept til 9am! We've been getting up early every day so far, but since we have 2 full days here we thought we'd give ourselves a treat and sleep a little later. We mad...

We left our Washington DC hostel at 6am and caught the metro then the bus to Baltimore Washington International airport (Laura missed out on singing 'Good morning baltimore'!). From there we took a flight to Dallas Fort Worth, then another flight to New Orleans. In the airport we witnessed military personnel in uniform being treated like royalty - people would go up to them and shake their hand saying 'thank you for your service'. And on every flight the first a...