Monday, 27th
August 2012
The night before Isaac was due to hit,
Bex and I were invited for drinks and dinner at the house of my
friend Lander (whom I know through my very excellent ex Paul
Eros – they studied together at Corpus Christi, when I was
going out with Paul). Lander's family seat is in the Garden District,
on Prytania Street – a good couple of miles west of our new billet
at the Melrose Mansion, which is on the corner of Burgundy and
Esplanade.
We weren't sure how easy it would be to
get a taxi, but we had a mission to fulfil (we'd asked if we could
bring anything to the party and Lander suggested gin) so we decided
to walk west to Canal and look out for an off-licence on the way. We
found a small general store with a wide range of booze, but no gin
(it's not big in the South, which is odd, considering how refreshing
a gin & tonic is – not to mention the medicinal properties of
quinine).
