Now we're talking! We may of arrived a day later than initially planned, but as it turns out New Orleans doesn't really stop for anything. They finish Mardi Gras and then start a 364 day long pre-party for the next one.
We had to drop the enterprise off at Hertz in the morning (we dubbed it that for some reason i now can't remember) then we went off exploring the french quarter. It's a beautiful region of the city, nice bars and cool indie shops, you still get the overwhelming amount of touristy shops but even these seemed a little less vulgar as other towns. Bourbon street may horde the majority of the tourists but the rest of the area is by far nicer.
Back at the hostel we'd got a pretty good crowd together to go drinking with. A bunch of English and Canadians, a few Americans, and we were all just sat around drinking and chatting until someone deemed it was about the right time to go out.
I'd got chatting to an Irish girl called Fay who we'd convinced to come out despite having a flight to New york at 3.00 in the morning :)
The first bar we'd been recommended to go to was actually shut when we got there as they were filming. At first this was very annoying, until then someone mentioned it was the guy who did the 'wire' and they were filming the new Treme series. So sorry Mr Simon you can do what u like.
We settled for a bar across the road, as long as it had live music i was happy.
Me and fay decided to take the drinking up a wee bit and started on some of New Orleans special cocktails. I think i had a hurricane, definitely had a hand grenade (that was pretty much lethal) and i may of had a few more.... i'm not entirely sure.
I do remember getting drunk under the table as when we got back to the hostel, Fay quite easily chucked her rucksack on her back, woke up her friends and then holla'd a taxi to take them to the airport. Consider me impressed as i was more than ready for bed.
The morning after unfortunately we had to move on again, i think both me and Will had both grown a soft spot for the place, the people and hostel made it all the more gutting to be going but we where on a time constraint so that's life. Add to this the fact we'd agreed to take two hitchers to Austin with us (don't ask it was just one of those things that just happens) and it was shaping up to be a very strange day. I'd gone from having a laugh with a cute Irish girl to now sitting in a car with a homeless, unicycle riding, chainsaw juggling, street performer and a psycho looking German guy. He looked like the bad guy in raiders of the lost ark, same round glasses just much fatter.
"Hurry up Will, put your foot down mate"
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