A real city at last! The bartenders and maitres d'hote to whom we spoke all said "it's too quiet". That seems to be a consequence of Americans not travelling rather than the aftermath of Katrina. When things are in full swing here I cannot imagine how busy it must be. New Orleans is the kind of shameless place that wraps itself all around you and announces that it wants to have some fun now. Tonight we saw any number of hustlers, greeters, street walkers and buskers; the large brass band at the top of Bourbon Street and a guy from earlier in the day wearing a Pork pie hat who (kindly) pointed us towards a restaurant.
We'll stay an extra day, and drive the ten or twelve hours to Austin on Friday.
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