22nd
July
2007
A little bit of down time this morning before we head off for lunch at the Rainforest Cafe and a walk through the big shopping mall here in Nashville (which includes the Gibson store!) so I thought I’d upload a few of our photos from our time in the UK…
(1) Owen & Luke by the Thames
(2) The Tower of London
(3) A Tower Guard
(4) Return of the Jedi
(5) Parliament Square - Big Ben - Looks like rain?
(6) Picadilly Circus with Uncle Matt
(7) On Blackpool beach
Categories : Family, Travel, photos |
22nd
July
2007
Today was perhaps the best of our trip thus far. We drove over to our friends’ house in Nashville, where we spent a pleasant morning and had lunch. It was great to see how quickly our kids bonded with their two, who are of very similar ages.
After lunch we drove into the city and had a look around the centre of Nashville. Even early on a Saturday afternoon this city has a great atmosphere. Live country music being played in a number of venues along the street, buskers on the street, horse drawn carriages everywhere. We checked out a guitar shop (made me wish I was able to bring home 3 or 4 - the prices and range here are awesome), had some ice-cream, and then went down to the Cumberland river. After that we took a drive through “Music row” which is the epicentre of the music industry here, where big record labels, famous studios and tons of other related businesses all mingle in the setting of a couple of leafy suburban streets. Although there’s a few large office buildings, most of these studios and business are in old houses and even a church. If there’s one thing you can say about Nashville it’s that the place has character. The city centre has a great atmosphere, and the green, spacious suburbs have the feel of a big country town. It’s terrific.
We finished the day with a visit to a local park, where the kids enjoyed playing in the playground. By the end of it Owen had a following of about 6 kids leading them in some sort of time travel game.
So as I said before, this was one of the best days of our trip so far - in part because we are in a great city, but mostly because we spent it in the company of good friends. Looks like this is going to be a really nice week here in Tennessee.
Categories : Family, Travel |
