WHEN YOU'RE VISITING NEW ORLEANS
– for the races at Fair Grounds or otherwise – by all means stop
in the French Quarter. Just don't stop at the French Quarter.
The Quarter awakens, provokes, and sometimes assaults all
five senses, and skipping it would be akin to missing the Eif-
fel Tower in Paris. The music, the activity, and the vibe in the
Quarter are a lot of what makes New Orleans, New Orleans.
But if you limit your visit to the Quarter, you've shortchanged
yourself worse than breakage on a show bet.
Let's take a look at this gracious, elegant, on-the-muscle,
delightfully strange city, including the tourist hub that is the
French Quarter. Where to begin?
