• Christine Bourgeois
  • Dave Bourgeois
  • Christine Bourgeois
  • Dave Bourgeois

New Orleans (Mardi Gras 2025)

Et 10-dags eventyr af Christine & Dave Læs mere
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    25. februar 2025

    Night walk on Bourbon Street

    25. februar 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    After a quick family visit in Houston where we ate delicious crawfish, we flew to New Orleans to meet our friends Linda & Melanie. The 4 of us are staying at the nice hostel close to the French Quarter (Vieux Carré). We are looking forward to celebrating Mardi Gras together: our first parade viewing (Krewe of Carrollton) was a great success.Læs mere

  • Swamp kayak tour, bikes & music

    26. februar 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    The Manchac swamp kayak tour was amazing: perfect weather, A LOT of wildlife (birds, alligators, turtles, a snake, frogs, fish). When we got back, Dave & I took a bus to the 9th ward to pick up to 2 cruisers at the community bike shop, RUBARB. What an interesting and busy place!
    Then, we rode to the Royal Frenchmen Hotel to listen to Kermit Ruffins. What a funny and talented musician!
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  • Food & the Krewe of Muses

    27. februar 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Galatoire’s is a famous restaurant in New Orleans serving Creole food and fresh seafood. We had a delicious lunch with locals all dressed up for Mardi Gras. Laissez les bons temps rouler!!
    In the evening, we watched the Krewe of Muses, an all female Krewe known for its iconic shoe throws, covered in glitter and trinkets.Læs mere

  • Bike ride to Magazine Street

    28. februar 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    We brought the sun from California 😊. Everybody says how beautiful it is, not too hot or humid.
    Our cruiser bikes are a great way to get around: it’s flat, traffic is very slow because of all the Mardi Gras parades and road closures. And the infrastructure for biking is quite good.
    Today, we decided to work out at Dryades YMCA, then we rode along Magazine Street and finished the day with more parade viewing: Hermes & Krewe d’Etat which is described as “a rolling comic strip of three-dimensional cartoons that skewer local and national politics with particular gusto”.
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  • Ride to City Park

    1. marts 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

    The ride to City Park on the Lafitte Greenway was easy, convenient and nice. We stopped by Bayou St John, listened to the singing oak in City Park and tried to visit some sights (Sculpture Garden next to the NO Museum of Art and the Botanical Gardens). Unfortunately, everything was closed due to Endymion parade.
    Watching Endymion huge floats on Canal Street around sunset, was amazing.
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  • Red Beans, Dead Beans & Krewe of Feijao

    3. marts 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    Founded in 2009, the multi-part marching group is known for its homemade red bean mosaic costumes that honor one of the Crescent City's signature cuinary icons, red beans and rice, which is traditionally eaten on Monday. The Red Beans parade which goes from the Marigny, Mid-City and Bywater to the Treme was one of several do-it-yourself Carnival processions that popped up in downtown New Orleans during the period of recovery after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flood.

    The spin-off Dead Beans parade has a Mexican Day of the Dead vibe, while the Krewe of Feijao incorporates elements of both Cajun and Brazilian culture. In 2024, a new LGBTQ+ group Queer Beans, was added to the Krewe of Feijao.
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  • Happy Mardi Gras!

    4. marts 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    With the prediction of strong winds and heavy rain, the 2 super parades (Zulu and Rex) were modified: they started earlier and the routes were shorter.
    We watched Zulu at Harmony circle: what a great show!
    Zulu is famous for their coconut throw – quite possibly the most coveted throw in all of Mardi Gras. I was happy to get one.
    In the evening, after the rain, we had dinner at Pierre Maspero’s restaurant which in the early days was a slave exchange. For dessert, we had to eat beignets at Café du Monde.
    What a great Mardi Gras!
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  • Ash Wednesday

    5. marts 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    The energy of Mardi Gras is gone. Streets are clean and many locals are going to mass (a lot of ash crosses on foreheads).
    It’s our last day in NOLA: we ride our bikes to the Dryades YMCA followed by a delicious lunch at Mandina’s (Italian/Creole food) and beignets at Morning Call.
    The Sculpture Garden by the Art Museum in City Park is free and world-class impressive.
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  • Last day in NOLA

    6. marts 2025, Forenede Stater ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

    Quick ride and lunch before going to the airport.

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    6. marts 2025