Fred’s Lounge , Cajun Louisiana

So luggage ! Up early and another attempt to find a bag ! Website has no info so a call to customer services and we have dialogue and register the loss - despite believing the BA person at the airport was doing it ! There is no update!

We head up the road to the world not so famous Fred’s lounge ! It’s a bar that had been holding a radio programme if the Saturday morning Cajun dance for 70 odd years! It’s unassuming and folks gather for the 9am kick off ! We sneak done local breakfast in first - a kolache and a boudin , sort of spicy sausage rolls and the obligatory doughnut! And we’re ready to go ! The place is filling with tourists and locals - well only the locals can dance properly , the rest bluff! Some crazy characters , some great music with accordion and pedal steel guitar and of course local commentary and radio adverts from the MC! It’s crazy and the good times roll !
It lasts most of the morning but we slope away after an hour or so
We cross the flatlands of Louisiana which is punctuated by ponds/ lakes of crayfish nets and onto the Mississippi River .
It’s funny what you notice - it’s all chapels and churches, and billboards about lawyers - “car crash ? See xxx”. Odd !
Past Atchafalaya National Wildlife refuge and then a flow drive up the Mississippi river mainly levees but the odd bridge and silt works and even a huge canal !
We finish at beautiful Natchez and a great old house for the night
It’s another t shirt purchase day , plus some socks and then another useless chat to BA to update on where we are staying for delivery and discover where the bag is - still in UK it seems !
We chill in Natchez under the hill with a big view of the Mississippi!Read more