There is SO much more to New Orleans than music (although that would be enough!) So here is some reminiscing, in no particular order, about the best bits of our week in the Big Easy. Quite understandably coming here is coloured by memories of seeing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Although the UK didn’t highlight it as much as the rest of America, we still had our newspapers and TV news dominated by photos of people being rescued from rooftops, the crowds in the Superdome, houses with that big cross symbol painted to show what had been found inside – and the awareness that things weren’t being handled well, although we probably didn’t really understand the full implications. We knew that you could take post Katrina tours but didn’t really like the idea of staring out
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