The French Quarter has very nice building facades to offer, but the neighbourhoods of Faubourg Marigny and Bywater were my ultimate favourites. Mostly residential streets, with a few businesses here and there, at least that’s what we came across on our expedition, but all in the most vibrant colours! A whiff of the Caribbean in the US 🙂 The streets turned out to be very quiet this Thursday morning, like it was a Sunday. We hardly saw any outside. The day after Halloween, but still, on a Thursday I expected more activity. I guess I shouldn’t complain, I like it quiet :D, and we got the whole place to ourselves. To enjoy the charming houses, some superb street art in between the buildings, and cross over the cool Rusty Rainbow Bridge to the Mississippi River promenade at Crescent Park. The Crescent Park Trail, which the promenade is called, didn’t look too enticing, so after a short glance at the mighty Mississippi we turned back, to fuel up at Pizza Delicious 🙂
We walked over from our hotel, on Common Street, through the French Quarter, and ended our endeavour on Piety Street. A 45 min walk according to Google Maps, if you walk in a straight line from a to b. We crisscrossed our way over, so it took a lot longer. A very nice walk, but maybe not to everyone’s taste.
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