A City Full of Good Memories

Apartments are common in New Orleans

When people say New Orleans is dense, they don't necessarily mean that the city is stupid.  What they usually mean is that there are a lot of people in New Orleans, and they are packed closely together.  That much is true.

There are about 360,000 people who officially call New Orleans home.  They vote at the ballot box, they pay sales taxes, they get mail delivered to their New Orleans address, and they make their livelihoods here.  

There are also about 12,000,000 people who visit New Orleans every year.  They vote with their feet and their plane fare, they pay sales taxes, they address the city with respectful affection, and they make neighborhoods more lively than they would be otherwise.  

There is no love like familiar love.  Ask anyone who has lived in New Orleans for more than a month.  There is also no love like new love.  That's the kind of love that people bring to the city every day of the year, though less so in August.

Our Lady of Prompt Succor, hasten to help us

You never know who you'll bump into and you'll never know who you bump into, again.  New Orleans is as busy as a bigger city, and it is as friendly as a smaller town.  Something is always going on, and everything overlaps like the boundaries of Mid-City.

Everybody is ready to give directions and recommendations, to tell you their story, and to introduce you to the chef.  If they saw you on the streetcar yesterday, they will buy you a drink.  You looked thirsty then, so you must be mighty thirsty now.  Anything for a pal, even a go-cup.

Separated at birth

There are all sorts of people in New Orleans.  They have adventures in the city, strolling arm in arm, holding hands, cheek to cheek and joined at the hips.  Love is in the air in New Orleans when you and the city see things eye-to-eye.

There is the kind of love that is inspired by finding a soul mate in the right person.  There is also a love that comes from being baptized in the spirit of a sensuous city.  There are places in this world that are magic.  One of them is in Louisiana, U.S.A.  

Right before the Mississippi River ends, it gets bigger, more curvaceous, and muddier.  Old Man River, like good times, just keeps rolling along in New Orleans.  The tides you see today are made of different water than they were yesterday, but its the same waterfront.  So is everything back from the sliver by the river.  All of  New Orleans is different every day, but it always full of love of place and love of people.

You can make a home here, whether for a two-day stay or a lifetime.  History lasts for eternity, one good memory after another.

There are all kinds of homes in New Orleans

There are all kinds of homes in New Orleans.  All of them have plenty of room, no matter how small they look from the outside.  A shotgun shack can stretch back a dozen rooms, not counting the camelback.  Some homes are more eye candy than others.

2216 Esplanade Avenue at night

Do you know what's the best thing about being an innkeeper in New Orleans?  We get to live here, and every day we get to see the city through fresh eyes.  Be a New Orleanian wherever you are. New Orleans is dense with good memories.  The rest of the world needs good New Orleans memories.

Our Lady of Rocheblave and Our Lady of Dourgenois

A votre sante,

La Belle Esplanade bed and breakfast.

(Nighttime photo courtesy of Ann Warner)