Tuesday 18th July 2017 – Nashville TN

We arrived around lunchtime to be stuck in the traffic of Nashville about 6 lanes of standstill.  You’ve gotta love these big cities.  Anyway we got through to the other side of town to a place called Poole Knobs which is on the banks of J. Percy Priest Lake where there is a beautiful campground in the recreation area.  Also the cheapest place we’ve stayed other than the freebies.  Moon got us discount so $11 a night for two campsites with water and electricity.  The water in the lake is warm and we had a couple of swims.

Here’s another only in America, this is a picture of the boat ramp, I wonder where they thought it would end?

In the evening we went into town to Music Row which starts at the end of Broadway and 2^nd Avenue.  This is where they have all the honky tonk bars and all the artists strut their stuff in the hope of fame and fortune one day.  It was back to back bars and bands so quite a lot of noise and energy.  We went into a recommended bar called Roberts Country World and the band there was playing some of the music that we like so we got to have a couple of dances and a bologna sandwich.

                                                  Ooh Elvis careful with those hands

                                            Wasted away again in Margaritaville

                                          And this is at the other end of the block look out

                                                                   

                                                                      Mini Vegas

Wednesday 19^th July – State Capitol Nashville TN

Today we went in to have a look at the state capitol building and whatever else we could find, the parking was almost non exisitent but we eventually managed to find somewhere.

                                                        The State Capitol Building

We found out that Davy Crocket was a representative in the house for Tennessee besides fighting in the Alamo.

                                                  This little girl says hi Tara

We then went in search of the country’s most interesting rest room which is situated in the Hermitage Hotel

This is the bathroom that the men used in their exclusive bar within the hotel.  This is the shoeshine stand

This is great 1930’s art deco and there is a blocked off doorway in here that leads to a tunnel where Al Capone and his cronies used to smuggle the bootleg.

                                  From there we went to the Grand Ole Opry for a look see

            We were a little disappointed with the building as it didn’t seem to have much character.

                                        This is a new version that replaced the old one.

After all the sightseeing we had lunch in another honky tonk bar next to the Dukes of Hazard Museum and the Willie Nelson Museum.  They have a museum for just about everyone in Nashville.  All trying to make a buck or two.