Honky Tonk City

Well it's about time I got around to posting something I suppose so here goes.

We stopped over in Nashville for a night and took the opportunity to do some sightseeing and visit some of the Honky-Tonks.

Oh but before I start on that, did you know that Nashville has a full sized replica of the Parthenon? Seriously. They use it as an art gallery. It was built for some Tennessee Centennial Exhibition in 1897. The locals liked it so it stayed, cool huh?

This is a local specialty called Honky-Tonk Lemonade. It's basically a Long Island Iced teas, minus the tequila but with blue curcao and maybe some vodka or something.

Anyways, the reason I've put up a photo of a cocktail is that it was they way we started off our night in Nashville. We decided a tour was the way to go. A bus and driver picked us up from the hotel, drove us past a few historic sites and down the main drag, bought us a drink, gave us a dinner voucher and let us loose until pick-up time. Fun, fun, fun!!

The next place we stopped in was the Wild Horse Saloon. it just so happpened that the night we were there was the night a reaity TV show called 'Can you Duet' was being filmed. Think of it as Australian Idol, but with two country singers. It was pretty cool to watch an act or two and see behind the scenes of a show taping.

We also got dinner at the saloon. I went for some Southern soul food: Catfish with coleslaw, fries and hush-puppies. Hush-puppies are like deep fried dumpling: delicious!!

Well, that's enough of the photos. After dinner we went to a bar across the street with some terrible karaoke, and then Coyote Ugly which was a cheesy movie cash in, but somewhat amusing.

The night ticks on and I must away.

N