Mr. Blanchard went out of his way to make my stay comfortable - going so far as to recommend a dozen or so restaurants and stock the apartment with drinks and snacks. The apartment itself is cozy, and couldn't be better situated for sampling everything the French Quarter has to offer. The collection of crazy Mardi Gras masks, the smell of Gumbo bubbling away across the street, the sound of the street band on the corner of St. Peter and Royal; this place is an intravenous injection of New Orleans.