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This image: A New<br />
Orleans jazz band<br />
in the city's French<br />
Quarter<br />
Right: Disney<br />
Concert Hall in<br />
downtown LA<br />
San José<br />
The heart of<br />
Silicon Valley has<br />
a lot more going<br />
for it than the<br />
headquarters of<br />
Google, Apple<br />
and Facebook.<br />
This anythingis-possible<br />
burgeoning city has<br />
an exciting global<br />
food scene, art<br />
museums and topdrawer<br />
shopping<br />
that ranges from<br />
makers market<br />
to fashionable<br />
Santana Row. And<br />
if you’re a tech<br />
nerd, you won’t<br />
be disappointed<br />
— the sprawling<br />
Tech Museum of<br />
Innovation is<br />
mind-blowing.<br />
New Orleans<br />
Why go? Jazz... Fried oysters...<br />
Funerals that are also street<br />
parties... Street parties that are also<br />
ground-quaking 14-day festivals of<br />
decadence... New Orleans literally<br />
invented these things. And the city’s<br />
still a place where they let les bon<br />
temps roule with a unique swagger.<br />
Ease yourself into the city with<br />
a drink at Longway Tavern, just<br />
metres from rowdy Bourbon Street<br />
in the prettily historic central French<br />
Quarter, to enjoy its sultry plantstrewn<br />
courtyard.<br />
Brunch at Brennan’s is an elegant<br />
institution, and you’ll never<br />
understand this city if you don’t<br />
embrace its bring-it-on attitude<br />
to food and drink. Come evening,<br />
catch trad jazz in its purest form at<br />
winsomely dilapidated Preservation<br />
Hall — no need to reserve seats,<br />
as the sociable queue and alfresco<br />
tippling make the line part of the<br />
fun. Dine at Justine, with street art<br />
on the walls, Frenchy stuff on the<br />
menu, and some light burlesque<br />
between tables.<br />
Next day, see a cemetery:<br />
NOLA entombs her deceased<br />
above ground in atmospheric<br />
stone cities of the dead. Saint<br />
Louise No. 1 has some famous<br />
graves, but a tour is compulsory<br />
(try twochickswalkingtours.com).<br />
Lafayette No. 1 cemetery is free and<br />
in the Garden District, where the<br />
city’s wealthy live in leafy, porticoed,<br />
plantation-era splendour: wander,<br />
28 worldtravellermagazine.com
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