Tuesday 4 September 2007

Royal...


Can you choose one favourite street out of your whole country?

I can. My favourite – of all the avenues and streets and roads and boulevards and circles and ways in America – is Royal Street, New Orleans.


To me it feels at once like a lovely mystery and like coming home.

I was going to write all the reasons why, but even in my head they sound like a tourist-book tallying of attractions and histories and quaintnesses... and that's really not what it's about.


It's just that when I'm on Royal Street, I want to stay.

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6 comments:

  1. Nice. I would have to think about that one. I know I don't have any streets even close to being that colorful.

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  2. hmmm, Caracas is so crowded and has so much traffic, it's not easy to pick a street, but if pressed it probably would be somewhere in El Hatillo.

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  3. I love that last line. : ) That's really what it's about, anywhere, wanting to be where you are. (If that makes sense, lol)

    PS. I tagged you over at my blog. Feel free to participate if you like. : )

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  4. oh, how lovely! i've never been to that street! i'd have to say my favorite is church street in charleston, south carolina. at dusk, there's nothing in the world like it.

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  5. That's something interesting to think about. Now I'm going to have to think of what my favorite street it.

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  6. My best friend just moved to Charleston! I'll have to go visit...

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