This morning we were heading to south Louisiana to visit Oak Alley Plantation. The brochure said it would take just under an hour to get there so we knew we had limited time. It turned out to be about an hour & a quarter driving time & it took 20mins for the valet to bring our car to us even though it was parked in a garage across the road. The valet service here is atrocious. We could feel the day was going to be hot when we were at breakfast. By the ti...

Today was a pretty uneventful day until this evening, hence the photo of Robyn's hospital bracelet. We left Mississippi & crossed the state line into Louisiana about 75miles later. It was a very flat trip with lots of lovely green trees, including big fields of Christmas trees. When we were about 25 or so miles out of New Orleans, the freeway became a road bridge or trestle bridge, the twin spans, as it is called here. There is 2 - one eastbound & one w...

We started today with breakfast in the hotel's courtyard - it was still cool out there as the sun hadn't reached it yet. We were due at the riverfront at 10.45am to board the bus for the swamp & bayou tour but we left the hotel early to go to the chemist so Robyn could get her antibiotics & cough medicine. We still had some time after that so we sat under a tree in Jackson Square, home to the lovely St Louis Cathedral. It was still relatively early &...