Nashville

Today we descended upon Nashville to taste the musical delights of the area.
Oh! We couldn't find anywhere to park easily.
Once we had found a parking meter, we went to the visitors center to find out what we could see. After talking to four different Visitor Center staff, we eventually were told that handicapped do not need to pay on parking meters.
The attractions seemed to be quite pricey and fairly well spaced.
So we looked at the musical attractions and found that there are a lot of music venues, each with their own schedule.
We eventually worked out that there was actually nothing we wanted to see, though David Peterson was on in one venue it was not until 9.00 at night, too late for us old fogies.
So we settled on taking a trolley ride round the city, that was very interesting, taking us through the government district, then the Music Square, where all the record companies are, then down Broadway, where all the cafes are. It was very interesting to get some of the history.
After the trolley we had a meal at Demos, (Italian) then strolled up Broadway, going into Hard Rock Cafe, The Bluegrass Cafe and Tootsie's, to see the bands playing. Also went into Gursche's the guitar shop and looked at all the very expensive guitars. Looked being the operative word.

After that, we fought the traffic to get back to our campsite, built a fire and considered our plans for the weekend.
On reflection, I don't think I was over impressed with Nashville, though it was nice to see a whole lot of live music, you could also see a lot of no hopers trying very hard. Nashville may be well known, but it has had its five minutes of fame with us.
So we are packing up this morning and going off to a small bluegrass festival at Brimstock, about 80 miles north east of here.