2. Vacation Travel • Поездки

New Orleans (06.2008)

A budget, "let's get out of town" trip for our anniversary, we head to The Big Easy. Rustem had always wanted to see the South; I hadn't been to NOLA since I was a teenager and though not particularly enamored of this city on the Mississippi, we decided to see what post-Katrina New Orleans was like, and help give the city a boost.
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French Quarter zaniness.
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French Quarter zaniness.

  • Each cigar roller at this factory makes about 200 cigars a day.
  • In its heyday (1892) just one of the city’s many factories produced 40 million cigars and was the largest cigar manufactory in the U.S.
  • On the job smoking's allowed.
  • Got my cigar.
  • Time for lunch.
  • Restaurant lighting.
  • Waiting for my entree, the local Red Fish .
  • French Quarter hitching posts.
  • Jackson Square. St. Louis Cathedral and monument to Andrew Jackson.
  • Monument to Andrew jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812, and 7th President of the United States.
  • St. Louis Cathedral.
  • In front of the Cabildo. Former seat of the Spanish Colonial government; now the Louisiana State Museum.
  • Jackson Square statue.
  • Plaza d Armas.
  • Bananas in the Square.
  • Cigar & bananas.
  • William Faulkner House. Faulkner wrote his first two novels in this former boarding house.
  • The room Faulkner rented is now a bookstore.
  • French Quarter zaniness.
  • Voodoo Queen's bar.
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