New Orleans

An early departure from Bermondsey to Heathrow, then a flight to a wet and chilly Toronto, to change planes for New Orleans brought us to this beautiful city in the American South by about 4pm local time (10pm UK time).

Here it is hot and humid and tomorrow it will be even hotter.

On this trip we are experimenting with Airbnb and our first experience here has been a good one. Tonight we are  a bit exhausted with jet lag but the US/UK time difference means we shall be up bright and early tomorrow to enjoy all that New Orleans has to offer.

Off to the Deep South

We're shortly off to the deep south of the USA as part of my sabbatical study of the Civil Rights movement and the history of slavery.

Starting in New Orleans, we shall be travelling through the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, ending up in Washington DC.

Along the way we shall be visiting the Whitney Plantation museum of slavery, near New Orleans, the Rosa Parks Museum (Montgomery), the Civil Rights Memorial Center (Montgomery), the National Voting Rights Museum (Selma), the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the Martin Luther King Jnr Birth Home, the Center for Civil and Human Rights (Alabama), and the National Museum of African American History in Washington.

We shall also be visiting three different churches on Sundays for worship and be making a visit to the Billy Graham Library in North Carolina, which tells the story of the life of the famous evangelist, whose ministry had such a significant impact on the church in Britain.

We hope to blog reports of our visits here so do come back to find out more about what we discover in our travels through the American south.
  

Civil Rights Memorial, Birmingtham, Alabama