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I love Facebook memories. These pictures recently surfaced of our incredible trip to New Orleans four years ago. I tried to put into words my impressions and thoughts (read below). Have you been to New Orleans? Which magical city have you visited that has left a profound and lasting impression?

Color, music, soul — three words I would use to describe New Orleans. The criteria for our three-day getaway was that it had to be a city where I could almost forget that I was in America. New Orleans didn't disappoint. Walking down the cobbled streets of the French Quarter, you don't need to enter one of the many art galleries to experience color and art. The entire area is
saturated with vividly colored Spanish-Colonial style buildings decorated with iron filigree balconies. It almost feels as if every night someone takes a paintbrush and paints the entire French Quarter with the most vibrant colors possible. As day turns into night, and the sun begins to set over the French Quarter, the streets reverberate with the sound of the marching
bands with their blaring trumpets and the staccato beat of a bass drum.

Then of course, there's jazz. Bourbon Street. Monique, the waitress at our boutique hotel, clucked her tongue disapprovingly each morning when we told her we had not yet made it to New Orleans’ most notorious street. On the last evening of our trip, we dutifully headed toward one of the more sedate jazz clubs on Bourbon Street. We may have brought the average age down to 60 but Monique was right; you can't travel to New Orleans without an obligatory stop on Bourbon Street. Jazz truly is the heart and soul of New Orleans, but the stomach of the city is a humble square of dough, deep-fried and covered with powdered sugar. You have to be pretty confident to only sell one item on your cafe menu. But once you take a bite into the other-worldly beignets at Cafe Du Monde, you realize that there is no other food that matters, and while you're in New Orleans, no other city in America matters.

Have a great weekend.

It is exciting and rewarding to begin 2018 with the development of my freelance editing business Flowing Pens.

In the month of January alone, I edited content for a website, three leaflets, a white paper, a thesis, a grammar workbook, and proofread legal translations.

Be among my February clients!