dwnbayou (July 20, 2008 at 8:46 pm)

very well done, thanks for posting, from a NO native.

sharonclyon (July 19, 2008 at 6:03 pm)

Yes, the atmosphere is there all right. Especially on a hot summer night when the evaporation hangs in the air.

mamajazzmatazz (July 19, 2008 at 12:29 pm)

Anyway as a european you will often feel more at home, because of the rich culture that dates way back. The old buildings, the rich history, the love of good food..the fact that the city has a town center that is alive and vibrating. All things that you will find in Europe because everything is older over here. And then ofcourse there is the music! can't compare that to anywhere else in the world.

mamajazzmatazz (July 19, 2008 at 12:26 pm)

I don't know the Jax hotel, but I do know Decatur st. I know there is alot of partying and alot of crime in NO but still..there is an atmosphere. My husband is from NO and he told me that often he would find drunk tourists in suit and tie sleeping it off on the sidewalk.

andypoint (July 19, 2008 at 4:17 am)

excelent, New Orleans is so beatiful city, I love!!.

sharonclyon (July 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm)

Do you know where the Jax Hotel is? It is probably not there anymore, an old abandoned building where homeless people sleep. We lived on St. Phillip street across the street from the Seven Seas Bar. Lots of mornings we tried to wake up drunks on the sidewalk of Decatur Street, so they wouldn't get arrested

mamajazzmatazz (July 17, 2008 at 9:08 am)

..and the drunks..stay away from bourbon street. The drunks are usually tourists

mamajazzmatazz (July 17, 2008 at 8:58 am)

I am a european and I have been all over the States. The place I found the most fascinating was New Orleans. There is a culture and an atmosphere there that is very rare to find in the States.

redprojet (June 14, 2008 at 11:04 pm)

It's okay.New Orleans is very messed up now but it will come back and it will be better than before.

sharonclyon (June 14, 2008 at 10:31 pm)

I apologize, if you are from New Orleans. I was being emotional.If you knew how I dreamed of going there and the night I arrived,it was all lit up like a fairyland. I felt free and grownup.I didn't even realize that I had no money and just the clothes on my back.My friend,who went with me,had a sister living in the French Quarter. She said my friend could stay with her, but not me. My friend refused.