I can’t say that the last thing I want to do is hang out all morning at the International House of Pancakes eating stack after stack of buttermilk pancakes while drinking weak coffee from a never-ending pot. It’s not the last thing I want to do. It is, however, pretty close to the bottom of […]
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Today, we’re going to continue our video tour of La Belle Esplanade’s five suites. We’re starting the overall tour with Les Fleurs Suite. There’s no particular reason we started with Les Fleurs, except maybe it’s the only one on the ground floor so I didn’t have to walk upstairs to start the tour. I don’t
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When you feel down and out and alone, without a friend in the world, like you’ve fallen so far that you can’t get up again, dirty, despised, misunderstood, misbegotten, like a babe lost in the woods, fear not. New Orleans loves you. New Orleans loves you. It is impossible to bored in New Orleans. It
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When is your humble narrator going to publish part two of the video tour of the inn? Don’t worry, it’s in the works. Since I don’t know how to edit video, if I don’t like something I have to start again from scratch. What’s taking so long? I’m lazy. There. Now you know. I cannot
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If you don’t think New Orleans is different from everywhere else, you haven’t been to New Orleans. How different? It is like nowhere else on God’s green Earth, my friend, like nowhere else. How do I know? I’ve been a lotta places—I know. Some days, I’ll be walking down the street and, apropos of nothing
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If you haven’t stayed with us and you’re curious about what my voice sounds like in person rather than on the page, you are in for a real treat. What this site needs is more video, dontcha think? If you haven’t stayed with us, here’s a chance to see all the suites we have at
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New Orleans air will set you free. Flare your nostrils and inhale when you walk down a New Orleans street and you’ll get a wallop of layered goodness that no bottled perfume can match. It’s a combination of Oo-la-laa and Va-vaa-voom. If New Orleans air could be packaged, it would be a best seller on
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La Belle Esplanade’s Mission Statement: We endeavor to increase the well-being and living standards of everyone who visits New Orleans for the brief time they are here, whether they choose to stay at our humble inn or not. From the outside, or boutique address is the subject of numerous photographs featured on bicycle tours, bus
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One definition of consciousness is the time spent between naps. New Orleans is a 24-hour city. There is always something going on at every hour of the day or night. New Orleans is a kaleidoscope of activity, a verdant playground of possibilities where the predominant culture welcomes everyone to cavort and add his or her
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If you don’t know what shrimp boots are, you aren’t from Louisiana. All hail the shrimp boot! Shrimp boots are white rubber boots that shrimpers wear when they are out on their boats. Actually, they wear them more often than that. I wouldn’t say that shrimp boots can accompany formal wear, but they can be
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