News Roundup
Feb. 21st, 2003 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaMorning. I'm home again.
The brief version:
New Zealand - absolutely beautiful. A lovely country full of mountains, trees, enormous open spaces and friendly people. The landscape is both stunning and variable - everything from rainforest to thermal regions of exploding bubbly mud.
New Orleans - after a few initial reservations ("oh my God, how tacky is that"), I'm also heavily in favour of the French Quarter (which was really all I saw of the city). An amazing place for just pottering around, looking at things, listening to music, eating and drinking. So I did.
New York - after initial hostilities, NY and I agreed to observe a cautious truce; it showed me both nice things and unpleasant things about itself, and snowed like a bastard.
The long (and undoubtedly tedious) version will turn up over the course of however long it takes me to write it. Right now I'm about to go and catch a train home, to go to a weekend of dancing in Leyland, Lancashire.
The brief version:
New Zealand - absolutely beautiful. A lovely country full of mountains, trees, enormous open spaces and friendly people. The landscape is both stunning and variable - everything from rainforest to thermal regions of exploding bubbly mud.
New Orleans - after a few initial reservations ("oh my God, how tacky is that"), I'm also heavily in favour of the French Quarter (which was really all I saw of the city). An amazing place for just pottering around, looking at things, listening to music, eating and drinking. So I did.
New York - after initial hostilities, NY and I agreed to observe a cautious truce; it showed me both nice things and unpleasant things about itself, and snowed like a bastard.
The long (and undoubtedly tedious) version will turn up over the course of however long it takes me to write it. Right now I'm about to go and catch a train home, to go to a weekend of dancing in Leyland, Lancashire.
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Date: 2003-02-21 04:04 am (UTC)Like everyone else, I am looking forward to your full write-up and can't imagine it being dull, especially if there can be some pictures as well. :-)
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Date: 2003-02-21 04:25 am (UTC)especially if there can be some pictures as well
If not, venta can tell me where specifically in New Orleans she went and I can see whether I have the pictures to match :-)
A lot of my photos of the Quarter have Christmans decorations up, though, which might be a bit unconvincing. The astounding thing about New Orleans decorations (and this really should astound anyone who's actually ever seen Bourbon Street) is that they are considerably more tasteful than what you'll typically see in the UK.
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Date: 2003-02-21 04:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-21 05:34 am (UTC)I think the Murricans have it right on this one - it's possible to be shiny without being ugly.
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Date: 2003-02-24 06:38 pm (UTC)They were shiny, and brightly coloured, but not nearly as gaudy as you might have expected.
Of course, now the season will be getting into the full swing, there might be a lot more tacky stuff about...