Tag Archives: New Orleans
New Orleans – The Home of Mardi Gras
Today is the last day before the start of Lent for many people, Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday or simply Pancake Day. Tradition had it that you would clear out your larder of all your food and cook it up into a feast to be shared with family, friends & neighbours. This is of […]
Thanksgiving Day – USA
The States is a land not much travelled so far by yours truly. I am very thankful that I have been to New York City, New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles, Orlando, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Minneapolis and Cape Canaveral on work related trips, but I yearn to do some Amtrak journeys one day, whilst San Francisco […]
A-Z April Challenge – French Quarter, New Orleans
The architecture of the French Quarter was left largely unscathed from the havoc caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Lucky for visitors as the area houses some of the finest buildings to be found is Louisiana’s best known city. My visit was in 2000 when I was lucky enough to be paid to travel there […]
New Orleans & All That Jazz
One hundred years ago today the ‘First Lady of Song’ Ella Fitzgerald was born in Virginia USA. The iconic singer was first known as the finest female proponent of scat singing. Wikipedia describe scat singing as ‘vocal improvisation with wordless vocals, nonsense syllables or without words at all. Scat singing is a difficult technique that […]
Independence Day
Happy 4th July to everybody in the USA. I haven’t spent nearly enough time in the States but my favourite city visited thus far was New Orleans, which I was lucky enough to go to in 2001. The music scene was second to none and the Mardi Gras and Jazz museums still count as two […]
PADDLE STEAMER – MY SIXTEENTH TRANSPORTATION THEMED BLOG FOR THE APRIL A-Z CHALLENGE
During my days working with the cruise & ferry sector, I was asked to be a keynote speaker at the 1999 Fast Ferry Conference in New Orleans. I managed therefore to get an all expenses paid trip to the capital of Louisiana for a 45-minute speaking engagement. I actually combined it with client visits to […]
