La Pelican Suite (Part II)

A lavender room

Some cities are not lovable.  Does anyone visit Houston, TX and become enchanted?  Oklahoma City? Wheeling, WV?  Bismark, ND?  Of course somebody does, but I don't know the people who love these places.  Every city has its charms, and some have more charms than others.  Minneapolis trumps St. Paul for a reason, though both are too cold from my tastes.  What is this leading up to?  

New Orleans is easy to love.  It is easy on the eyes.  It is full of color and music.  It pulsates.  It throbs.  A city is a place in which people live close together and share their eccentricities.  New Orleans is like that.  If you can't find a good meal in New Orleans, you don't have any taste buds.  If you are bored in New Orleans, you don't know what to do.  

With that in mind, here are some new pictures of La Pelican Suite. The sitting room is lavender.  The bedroom is spring green.  The ceilings are cerulean.  

Facing the bed, looking up

Antique sofa.  New pillows.

The map behind the sofa is of New Orleans circa 1820.  Esplanade Avenue is just Esplanade Ridge, but Bayou Road is there.  It is the oldest street in the city, older than the French Quarter.  It runs opposite 2216 Esplanade Avenue, on the other side of Gayarre Park.  The other picture is a view of the harbor in the 1880s.

The fireplace mantle in the bedroom

The fireplace mantle in the sitting room

La Pelican Suite is the quietest of all the suites at La Belle Esplanade bed and breakfast.  It also has a very private balcony...

Riverside of 2216 Esplanade Avenue

Attentive readers will notice that the porch pictured above is a different color from the vibrant orange at the rest of the address.  We decided, as a matter of maintaining the historical record, not to paint the side of the house fronting the alley between 2216 and 2212 Esplanade Avenue.  You can see what the property looked like for twenty years before it came under new management.

There is a table and two chairs for enjoying the sunrise over the first cup of morning coffee (coffee maker in every suite), or for enjoying a bottle of Abita beer (complimentary in every suite's refrigerator) for a nightcap.

New Orleans is a city of unexpected delights.  Esplanade Avenue is a distillation of that.  La Belle Esplanade bed and breakfast?  It is a concentration of the Esplanade Avenue experience.  Remember, in New Orleans, Esplanade is pronounced "es-plan-AID."

A votre sante.