Beyond Bourbon Street: Angela & Mark's New Orleans Secrets Tours

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Their website: https://nosecretstours.com/
Their book: Secret New Orleans: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
Inside this episode:

• How Angela Papke Aspiazu made the seamless move to New Orleans
• Early childhood foreshadowing of Mark's current business
• Cocktails that were born in NOLA
• The World Tour Culinary influences idea
• New Orleans magic & serendipities
• Celebs you might spot on one of their tours
• The Speediest Saint in all of New Orleans

ABOUT:
New Orleans Secret Tours is an Award-Winning and #1-Ranked Tour Company. They've been featured on the Travel Channel and National Geographic. You can also find them in Frommer’s, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Business Traveller, U.S. News & World Report, Luxe Life, and more. Their guides have also consulted for such TV shows as NCIS: New Orleans (CBS), Mysteries of Genius (Discovery Channel), and Animal Secrets (Animal Planet).
Mark, GUIDE

Mark Aspiazu was born and raised in New Orleans. He graduated from Jesuit High school and then got his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of New Orleans. It was there that he realized that the for-profit education industry just wasn’t for him. His passion was New Orleans history, food, and cocktails. Mark spent his weekends showing people around the city wishing he could do it full-time. So he did. In 2014 he got his tour guide license and in December of 2015 he decided to make the leap from Campus President to full-time New Orleans tour guide and he hasn’t looked back since.

Angela, GUIDE

Angela might be from the Midwest originally, but she never felt truly at home until moving to New Orleans. Always ready to see performing arts and eat delicious food, this former creative director cared little about history…until New Orleans. Now she has a voracious appetite for anything that relates to the city–historical or otherwise. When not on a tour, you’re likely to find her with her fiancé, Mark, trying out the latest restaurants, discussing New Orleans history and culture over cocktails, singing along at Fritzel’s on Bourbon, watching the Disney Channel, attempting to dance, acting on a TV/movie set, or indulging in her favorite activity: traveling.

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