Today is the busiest day on the roads in the USA sue to the holiday tomorrow, so I spent the day on the sidewalks of the city. After a rather unpleasant breakfast in the hotel, Americans can`t do breakfast, walked up to the French quarter. The whole of Louisiana was at various times controlled by the French, Spanish and British, before Napoleon got fed up with the whole place and sold it to the new American colony for 15 million dollars. Quite a deal as Louisiana at the time spread all the way to Oregon. The museum is in the building where the transfer was signed. The French quarter is the oldest part of the city and was relatively unscathed by Katrina, being one of the few parts of the city to actually be above sea level. It has some wonderful old buildings. Spent ages in the square just people watching.