Flying to New Orleans.

Because in New Orleans, everything is charming, especially the ruins. 

Muriel's Restaurant, in the Vieux Carre (French Quarter), in Jackson Square.

I recommend the chevre and crawfish crepes.

This is one of my favorite places to dine or have a drink. The photographs don't do it justice, it is so pretty in there. I love the exposed brick, the old portraits, the antique mirrors, the hanging gardens over the bar area, the sumptuous tapestries. It's gorgeous. And very much in the NoLa aesthetic. It's also historical and is supposedly haunted!

 

( Want to see an amazing decor and design New Orleans blog? http://thevisualvamp.blogspot.com ) 

 

The secret gardens in New Orleans are the ones to seek out through iron gates and fences and slip through whenever possible. A symphony of green and iron and brick, green ferns, palms, banana leaves, magnolia trees, and tropical flora, iron urns, lattices leaned against exposed brick garden walls... lush harmony with touches of overgrowth, a uniformity mingled with the wild uncontrollable nature in warm humid laces like the crescent city.

Spanish moss hanging off a tree in New Orleans - what's more lovely than this?