Band2 wrote:Go eat at Muriel's. Not sure what your budget is since the place is expensive, but go for dinner if you can, it is more atmospheric then. Ask to see the ghost table (a table they set for the ghosts that haunt the building). If it is too expensive may just a drink at the bar, which is in a room close to the ghost table.
Muriel's is on Jackson Square. If you are outside and facing the St. Louis cathedral it is to the right on the corner.
We did that place (and about 5 of the top ten NO restaurants Antoine, Pêche, Luke, Sbisi, Cochon
)
At Muriel, we didn't ask for The ghost table (a table of four, where you can only be seated 3, to leave a place for the ghost
)
That was quite good (we were there for the sunday jazz brunch).
There are many walking ghost tours through the French Quarter. I find that it really depends on your tour guide rather than the tour company you pick.
We did the Voodoo & cemetery tour, as well as the late night Ghost tour. Both were very cool.
First one was on real voodoo (not the movie voodoo), Marie Lavaux and all. Great.
Then the late night ghost tour, with the Ursuline vampire legends, Muriel's and of course the Lalaurie house. Great too.
Indeed, it all depends on the guide's ability to tell a story, and both were good. Learned a few tricks by their story telling
This way they insist on a detail, to make the supernatural that follows more swallowable
There are also some vampire tours, I think driven by the Anne Rice books, but I have never been on one.
We didn't do this one either. Sounded cheezy
(*says the guy who did the Voodoo and Ghost tour*
)
Speaking of her, you can walk pass her old house. I do not think she lives there any more but it is still an impressive old mansion. It is not in the French Quarter but is off one of the street car lines.
Garden district is amazingly beautiful, we walked a lot through it (and Lafayette cemetery)
I grew up there. So if there is anything else you want to know just let me know.
I can now see why Nawlins
is so reputed to be haunted, or the birth place of so many legendary supernatural things, with the old moss covered trees, Mardi Gras, the foreign culture, slavery and mix of exotic cultures, voodoo, old architecture, old money and sophisticated people, the general feeling of the place...
I loved it. But Bourbon St is horrible. They could empty this street from these terrible bars and start again, it would be a great improvement for New Orleans
Frenchmen St was much more fun!
After 7 days in No, we did 5 days in the bayou and plantations area. That was extremely cool as well ;D
Expect a future FoS photographic report on New Orleans, like I did on Père Lachaise
And now I wish to revisit our Souragne FoS report with all this material, sounds and sights...