Not hugely impressed with St Louis – a car orientated urban sprawl – but it has a stunning “Gateway Arch”, as below, overlooking the Mississippi, our first viewing of our travel companion. Except we’re veering eastward for a couple of days to visit Country Music city.
Our first experience of Nashville Broadway is of an astonishing array of music, of many genres, in many many properties, some with three bands playing on three different levels, all at the same time. Musical extravaganza or overload, it’s certainly colourful.
Day Two in Nashville
Tennessee Brewhouse provided great live music & indie beer, hell, we’re in the brewery. Peg Leg Porker bbq restaurant provided an ultimate pig consumption barbecue, followed by a Bluegrass Band in Station House: Borrowed Mules playing – impressive, even to a non-believer history. The locals tell us Broadway’s output is for the tourists, locals look elsewhere – we now have a list for our last day.
Day Three in Nashville
A long walk to the city’s Parthenon. Yep, you heard right, an exact replica of the original one in Athens. Well you judge how lookalike it is?
So the next question is why? Something to do with Athens of the south, it was built as the centerpiece of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, commemorating Tennessee’s 100th anniversary. Last night in Nashville – impressed with huge number of bars, many of which serve food, ace craft beers & live music. Never seen so many music venues, like a perpetual music festival. Got caught in a downpour – seems when it rains it goes for it.
The statues in the foreground are the local suffragettes, one of whose Congressman son was told by her to vote for ladies’ right to vote. Transpired that was the deciding vote. In 1920.
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