The home we stayed in was incredible, we pulled up in front of a gorgeous lifestyle magazine looking house to be greeted by our hosts and friendly cat. We couldn't have stayed with lovelier people and their home just leaves me gushing... I would also quite happily pilfer the entire kitchen if I had the chance. After settling in we wandered down the road to grab some dinner and then eat some scone and peach jam flavoured ice cream.
Over the next few days our time was spent between eating, music, more eating, drinking and then a little bit of walking followed by even more eating.
I got to wander around and see and eat at some of the spots that filming was done in one of tv shows I watch. Then we headed to Downtown nashville, exploring the honkey tonk bars. It is incredible to watch all the people making their way down a street lined with country music bars. The men dress the part as cowboys or the stereotype jock and the women (who seem to all be gorgeous in the south) wander around in denim shorts and cowboy boots. We stopped in at a few bars and they were a lot of fun, I even got asked by one lady if I was that heroin dealer gal from the tv. Safe to say I'm not but it was flattering considering how pretty the gal she was talking about is.
We ate a tone (or close to it) of great food from bbq to Mexican but a few places really stood out. One was Monells, you get seated at a large family dining table with strangers and they just bring out platter upon platter of southern comfort food that all gets passed to the left, the food was really good but the best part was getting to chat to everyone there. We met a couple of ladies from Kansas that made the meal a lot of fun, especially when they seemed to decide that they would force feed Alex as much as possible, he would have made NZ proud with what he managed to put away.
The other place was a little dive just up the road from us thats sells Nashville hot chicken, Janet our host had warned us it was hot and to just get the mil and medium if we really like HOT food. I think we could have got the mild and extra mild. It was succulent amazing chicken but I really thought my face was suffering acid burns from all the cayenne pepper that was only better when washed down with lots of wine... we may or may not have both thrown up the next morning.
We also managed to go to a college football game (the band is the best part of that) while we were there. It was so much fun to see all the pageantry that went on and to appreciate the fact that they had 60,000 people there for a uni grade game. It took about 20mins to play 1 min of game time due to stoppages etc so I don't think I would go again but it was really great to chat to the older couple next to us and see the band doing it's thing.
I find it hard to break down what it was about Nashville but I would love to go back and spend a lot more time there... who knows maybe it was the cosby show themed jello shots?
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