NOLA Bed and Breakfast Address

2216 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, LA

I put the address on the house today.  That's the window in the entryway.  From the inside:

Home is where the heart is

In addition, I put the business' name on the front under the windows:

What beautiful penmanship

The writing is done in chalk, and the script is reminiscent of the kind seen on school blackboards, if schools still use blackboards.  What it lacks in permanence, it gains in flexibility.  Your hosts are whimsical folk, and one of them takes pleasure in posting public statements.  We will leave it up to you to determine which one he may be.  

A view of the office in the lobby:

Pull up a chair, we are ready for check-in

I enjoy that sconce.  It casts a shadow shaped like a fishhook.  It is made of driftwood and oyster shells.

From the banks of the mighty Mississippi River

By the way, we didn't catch that sailfish over the mantle.  It was a gift.  

In our travels, we've come across a Cajun gentleman who has stuffed examples of an alliduck, a duck with an alligator's head.  It is a very rare example of the taxidermist's art practiced on a very rare animal found in the back bayous of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes.  He has promised that the next time he catches one, he will stuff it for La Belle Esplanade.

Other sundry preparations happened today.  There are three suites ready for occupancy: La Pelican, La France, and Les Fleurs.  Thus far, on the reservation front, La Pelican seems to be the most popular.  Pictures of it fully decorated to follow later this week.  What was missing from these suites, though, were the plaques for the doors.  We took care of that today.  The door to Les Fleurs Suite:

Your room is waiting

We cleaned up the last of Hurricane Isaac's debris.  It is a joy to putter about the property, making everything nice.  Like New Orleans itself, La Belle Esplanade is truly a beautiful place in which to live and to stay, for any amount of time.

A votre sante.