Tripatini contributor Maureen Blevins writes:

As I wandered the streets of the Vieux Carré (aka the French Quarter) on my most recent visit I was so thankful that it had survived after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. What a tragedy it would have been to lose all of this – this history, this architecture, this joie de vivre that is New Orleans, Louisiana (sometimes dubbed NOLA). It is not nicknamed "the Big Easy" for nothing!

Read more in her post Positively NOLA: New Orleans´ French Quarter.