NEW ORLEANS TOUR - HOUSES

Not every part of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Uptown and the Garden District were relatively unscathed. The stately old homes have lasted, however, some have been turned into apartments, bed and breakfasts and fraternity houses. 

The dead vegetation is a result of the recent freezing temperatures. We saw dead banana trees everywhere.

Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans are both in Uptown on St. Charles Avenue.

The streetcars are transportation for the residents of New Orleans as well as tourists, unlike San Francisco's cable cars.

Audubon Place, the only gated community in New Orleans. 

This is a classic Creole color scheme.

The Canal Street Line was electrified in 1894. Taken out of service and replaced by buses in 1964, the trolleys were brought back 40 years later in 2004.

Blooming Saucer Magnolia, the only flowers we saw. All of the Camellia blossoms had been destroyed by the freeze.

Eiffel Society Event Center and Lounge.

Historic building constructed of 11,062 pieces of a restaurant that originally perched atop the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 

One of Emeril Legasse's three New Orleans restaurants. Given enough time, we might have gotten around to eating in one of them.

Some holidays hybridize.

Can you find the pup? He never made a sound.

This exuberance is typical of the feelings that Mardi Gras evokes.

When the tour was over, all three of us were ready for lunch. Linda said, "Follow me". 

She and Sally used to get a muffuletta and eat it on the levee on their lunch hour. 

Central Grocery is still an authentic Italian market.

The muffuletta was every bit as good as they remembered it.

Uptown, but not on our tour, we found a bakery that we returned to again and again. La Boulangerie.

Their King Cake is the classic French one.

The walls are covered with bright, painted plaques with three-figure prices.