March 2019
Florida and Louisiana
A few days in Miami and around Florida, then a flight to New Orleans, the River Road plantations and Cajun country.
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March 8, 2019 Stage 1 of 4A trip to New Orleans: local culture and authenticity
New Orleans International Airport has changed names several times. From Moisant Field to New Orleans International Airport, it became Louis Armstrong airport in 2001, marking the centenary of the virtuoso's…
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March 10, 2019 Stage 2 of 4Between the oaks of City Park and the Mardi Gras floats
Some cities you discover by rushing from one monument to the next, and others force you to slow down. New Orleans clearly belonged to the second kind. As on the…
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March 11, 2019 Stage 3 of 4On the plantation road: Oak Alley and Laura
You can't claim to understand Louisiana without looking squarely at what it was built on. Postcards happily sell the big white columned houses, the crinoline dresses and the mint juleps…
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March 12, 2019 Stage 4 of 4In the heart of Cajun country
For a French person, Louisiana is somewhat unsettling. You come across street names that sound like home, bilingual signs, families called Thibodeaux, Broussard or Landry, and yet you are right…
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