Back to New Orleans Louis Armstrong Airport then - currently having a new 50 gate terminal built to welcome all the guests expected next year to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city - to pick up our Jeep Patriot rental car to head west through Baton Rouge to Lafayette in glorious sunshine (around 80F/26C) on highways built partly on trestles across the swamps and bayous of Louisiana.
Our accommodation for the night is a 200 year old plantation house called Bois de Chenes (Wood of Oaks) situated approximately half a mile from the centre of Lafayette To be honest, the accommodation is beautiful and very impressive somewhat at odds with the ever-so-slightly knocked-around-the-edges state of the city itself. Our host at the Bois de Chenes, Ravi, only recently purchased the property and was most welcoming and enthusiastic about the project that he has taken on. Gillian and Jan's bed:
Chris and Tracey's:
Ravi arranged for one of his friends, Bobby, to come in and talk to us about the history of the house and the area and also to sing some Cajun songs. He suggested that we drove out of town to eat at Pat's Fisherman's Wharf in Henderson.
We feasted on Alligator nuggets (best described as tasting like pleasantly chewy chicken) and Crab and Corn Bisque (historic) for starters followed by Combo Fish Platter (oysters, crab, catfish, hush puppies), Hamburger Steak, Burger and local speciality Fried Shrimp Po' Boy Back at Bois de Chenes we spent a very happy hour chatting, generally putting the world to rights, with Houston and Jen, and their baby daughter, Madeleine, from Texas.
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