Nashville, Tennessee

To get to Nashville we had a real train run that took two days. On every journey the train stops at regular intervals to see to and water the animals, which is called a water stop. If the journey is over a certain length of time they stop long enough to let the animals off to get some exercise which also means the humans on the train can also get off for a few hours and run around as well. We had one of these water stop at Atlanta. You can't really do much as wandering away from the train too far would make you feel a bit nervous of being left behind, which has happened. For people on private cars it is nice to get off and see a different face and wander down to the pie car and stock up on snacks and things which we can't do normally.

Once again we were lucky and the arena was right downtown and downtown Nashville was pretty good. They call it the Music City and it is true music is everywhere in this place. You hear it from restaurants, bars, shops and even electricity boxes on the side of the street. You also see it everywhere even on the pavement. Tweedy went out one night with a friend who lives here whom he worked with in the UK. He isn't really into country music so had intentions of finding some blue grass to experience the Nashville thing but he ended up in an Irish Bar with an Irish band playing Celtic music. Once the band realised he came from Scotland there was even some Proclaimers thrown into the mix. Maybe not experiencing stereotypical Nashville but he had a good night and yes I was at home with Willow.





One day while Willow was at school and Tweedy was busy doing shows I walked to the Nashville Farmers Market which is close to The State Capitol. Considering it is January it wasn't bad there at all and I'm sure when more things are in season it would be a really nice big bustling farmers market. Right beside it there is also a flea market and an indoor market with places to eat and a couple of deli type things. I was quite excited to find an Indian/Asian supermarket there and stocked up on a few things that I haven't been able to find here.



Our last day was Sunday which is the norm here, though sometimes we stay somewhere a day extra. I went to the shops to pick up a few things before we left but Nashville seems to be closed on a Sunday during the day. I guess most people are recovering from Saturday night.

As we left Nashville there was a little flurry of snow, and even though we were leaving I don't think where we are heading is any warmer.