Checked out of the hotel and picked up the Interstate about 5 blocks from the hotel for the trip to Nashville. It was a real easy drive, we had been on this route before some 4 years ago but travelling in the opposite direction. Last time we were heading towards a tornado, not this time though. The weather was really sunny, about 85 degrees.
We had a few stops for natural breaks and some food.
We got to our hotel, it was real easy to find, checked in and went to our room.
Very good size, hotel had a pool so we decided to have a relax before we went out for the evening.
The hotel offered a shuttle service to the downtown area known as Honky Tonk Alley. This is where all the bars and restaurants are. We tried a restaurant called Merchant, it looked real nice but there was a 40 minute wait so we moved on and went to Jimmy Buffet's "Margaritaville".
We sat down and our waiter Ethan came over. He was a really nice guy, found out that we came from London and asked me if I was "red" or "blue". Obviously this was a reference to football, or soccer as the Americans call it. I told him "there is only one team in North London!" and that I was a yiddo.
He was a Man U fan, purely because that was the team he watched when English football was first shown on American TV.
We had a great chat about the season just gone and football in general. We eventually ordered our drinks and food. There was live music playing, 2 guys with acoustic guitars, they were really good, playing all types of music.
Food came up, it was really good so we decided to stay and listen to the music for a bit longer.
Ethan kept us supplied with drinks and we kept chatting each time. We eventually exchanged email addresses as he is hoping to go to England one day and take in a game of football.
Honky Tonk Alley was still buzzing, it goes on till about 3 am every night but we had had a long day so decided we would go back to the hotel. We grabbed a taxi and retired for the night.
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