New Orleans! By Rachael I was really excited to arrive in New Orleans, it is a city I have heard amazing things about for a long time, and after the cultural bleakness of Orlando it felt like the perfect antidote. We weren't dissapointed. New Orleans is a city full of history, with a unique culture and character. It has everything - amazing food (po' boys, red rice and beans, jambalaya, gumbo etc), cool bars with amazing cocktails, spontaneous street music (it is the birthplace of jazz after all), quaint colourful streets, friendly locals. It is the largest city in Louisiana and we could tell we were in the South straightaway. I loved the accent, 'how y'all doin'' etc. Not to go on about the buses, but to get to New Orleans we had our first experience
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