Yesterday morning we walked down to the French Market, which is the oldest markers in the USA, first built in 1791! Chatted for a while with an artist there called Oscar. He handmade really coll, colourful badges and earrings, and said he was down at the market almost everyday, even when there was hardly anyone else around. On friday the winds were so bad there were only about 4 stalls out, but Oscar said he loved what he did so much (hes been doing it for 19 yea...

We drove into New Orleans yesterday, and I truly was not prepared for the devastation. As we crossed the bridge into the city, we could see beside us another bridge whose middle had been completely torn away by Katrina. Driving through the residential area, with a birds eye view, we could see that even now so many houses were in desperate need of repair, they just looked like empty shells, roofs and walls revealing their guts thriough gaping holles. Their entire ...