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A tale of Two Meals in New Orleans
Blog: Solo Traveler - 27 April 2011
Mediocre food with history and fine dining with a price tag.
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New Orleans: Taking It Easy in The Big Easy
Blog: Travelogged - 8 April 2011
With its fabulous food, colorful architecture and joie de vivre attitude, New Orleans is one of America’s best cities to visit. While the population did not fully return after the devastating Hurricane Katrina and some of Downtown’s office buildings remain unoccupied, The Crescent City’s culinary and cultural scene is as rich as ever. When you [...]
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d.b.a. opens in Williamsburg, becomes less annoying
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 26 January 2011
Some people love being in a huge crowd, using their best cheerleader voices while surrounded by a sea of different people and their corresponding drink-spilling elbows. I am close to the exact opposite of this kind of person. d.b.a.
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Fact: America is Beautiful
Blog: GoBackpacking - 14 December 2010
Los Angeles traffic is really not that bad, it's just constant. (Photo: David Lee)---------Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog.Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.
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Half a week after the Round the World Trip
Blog: Honey Service Year - 14 October 2010
We understand space ship reentry. We feel we just went through that this week as we are home just half a week after the Round the World Trip.Honey Service Year year-end count down 50 days left.We are home. How will our Honey Service end in the USA?2.New OrleansPoplarville is calling....3.If anyone thinks we are slacking here or that we could have been more directed abroad this year, you would be
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Travel Writer Finds Lessons in Witching Hour
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 20 September 2010
Destination: Anywhere Book: The Witching Hour (1993) by Anne Rice A GUEST POST BY Susan Lanier-Graham Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour helped me discover those elusive travel moments I have always loved to travel and I don’t remember a book that specifically planted that desire. But I do know the book that made me see [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library
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First-time travel abroad: New Orleans
Blog: Sophie's World - 2 September 2010
I took my first plane journey when I was 11 years old. My oldest daughter was 11 weeks. Times have certainly changed. Back in the 70s, Mum took my brother...
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Road Trip to Historic Louisiana
Blog: A Traveler's Library - 14 July 2010
The Great American Road Trip Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana (1817) Books: A Free Man of Color by Barbara Hambly (1997) New Orleans Noir, edited by Julie Smith (2007) People of color could be classified in a dozen ways like mulatto, griffe, octoroon, musterfino and more. But whites were classified, also. Besides the Spanish, there were [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library
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Pic of the Week: Solo Travel in New Orleans
Blog: Solo Traveler - 8 July 2010
This musician was one of a trio playing on Bourbon Street. Read more about my time in New Orleans in the post Seedy Bars and Luxury Hotels on the Blues Highway.
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Ten things to do in New Orleans
Blog: velvet escape's blog - 27 May 2010
A special guest post by Mei from Cumi & Ciki. 1. Get Jazzed Few places on Earth possess the year-round party atmosphere as does New Orleans. And it all starts on Bourbon Street. This is New Orleans’ most famous street, a place dominated by drinks and drinkers where the cocktail is king and bars stand [...]
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Solo travel, Cheap Eats and the Blues Highway
Blog: Solo Traveler - 24 February 2010
When I solo travel, I prefer to spend less on food and more on doing things. But I still like to eat well. Here are some recommendations for cheap and cheerful eating spots on the Blues highway. This is just a summary. To read the entire article, please click on the title above. If you enjoy this blog, please lend your support by forwarding this email to friends. Thanks, Janice
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FREE Food, Pigskin and Pin-Ups All Day
Blog: Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website - 7 February 2010
As someone who normally avoids football at all costs, but also has a secret love of hot wings, the Super Bowl is a conflicting event for me. I enjoy the festive atmosphere and flowing beer but not so much the fist pumping and sporadic yelling.
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76-Second Travel Show: "Travel Magazine Olympics (Oct/Nov)"
Blog: REID ON TRAVEL - 1 November 2009
Episode #006F E A T U R I N G * 44 * B O N U S * S E C O N D SWe understand the time constraints on your life. We understand, too, you like to dream. That's why SSTS has poured through five travel magazines for the October/November 2009 period and picked out the three best contributions for you to read.
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Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 3 May 2009
I’ve had quite a productive day today. We went to San Diego Zoo which was ace, on par with Chester (and the one in France Nimrod, what’s the name?) even! The highlights were seeing real live pandas and watching the tigers play. After that we got the bus over to the beach which looked pretty [...]
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Stars, Stripes and… Bubbles.
Blog: one more left and i'll be on the right side - 30 April 2009
This shot was taken on Mardi Gras Day 2009 in NOLA. The flag is mounted on a Royal St hotel and the bubbles in the background spewed from a machine all day long. The Star Spangled Banner can be seen everywhere in the USA. Driving down a highway you reguarly see huge mastheads that carry the [...]
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Keep the change ya filthy animal!
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 18 April 2009
Last night on Bourbon Street I overheard the beginnings of a conversation between 2 blokes. Geezer number 1 “Hey Judd”, geezer number 2 “Yah”. I can only draw from this that geezer number 2 is named Judd. This country. The ghost tour thing was alright, more from an interesting historical perspective than a scary one. [...]
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Fat lady’s number
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 16 April 2009
I’ve had a few chats with a good Australian fella in the bunk above the past couple of days. There is even the possibility of him putting me on to some work if I’m ever in Perth, which I may well be in the not so distant future. Tech update: I’ve binned off the Fring [...]
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Greater Manchester
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 15 April 2009
I watched some mad nightly show on TV last night (the Colbert show I think) and this guy is America’s answer to Alan Partridge (KMKY era), acerama man. I’ve wasted most of today really, didn’t get up until about 11 and then dicked about sorting emails and stuff. A shower, shave and 2 bowls of [...]
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O Katrina
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 14 April 2009
Since I’ve been in New Orleans I’ve not been able to get that Black Lips song out of my head, good thing it’s an ace tune eh. A guy from Leigh (though he said he was from Manchester, incorrect my friend) traded me 2 beers for the use of my Skype this morning, I’d have [...]
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Down, down, deeper and down
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 12 April 2009
It may be some time before I get to publish this particular blog post but rather than give an anguished and laboured retrospective, I’m going to give an anguished and laboured blow by blow account of the joys of Greyhound as it happens. It’s going to be a long one you lucky bleeders, I mean [...]
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