Instead, I encountered quite a different experience when I went out for a midnight walk through the French Quarter. That much was accurate, but I also pictured quiet streets with restaurants serving up Cajun or Creole food and jazz music playing as visitors and locals alike dined together in harmony. You know, those beautiful Creole cottages with wrought iron balconies and hanging plants. Here’s what I pictured: cobblestone streets with Creole style architecture (often called, incorrectly, French Colonial style). If I’m being honest, my expectation of the historic French Quarter was more fashioned by New Orleans Square at Disneyland than anything else. But not NOLA…at least not prior to my first visit to the city. I’d like to think I have a decent impression of most cities. I’m a world traveler who has been to 139 countries and nearly every U.S. The French Quarter Of Debauchery In New Orleans I’m somewhat embarrassed to admit that I had a totally naive and erroneous view of the French Quarter of New Orleans…which was light on jazz and Creole and heavy on debauchery.
