Sadly Nashville has been a bit of a disappointment. Firstly, the hotel we’re staying at is rather Fawlty Towers ish. While it is very close to downtown Nashville it’s also showing signs of its age and overuse plus the staff don’t quite treat you as valued customers – rather just another group of tourists passing through. Andy nearly threw a major paddy last night when he discovered his mattress was covered with a plastic waterproof cover – that rustled. I thought it showed the hotel cared and didn’t want all its guests to share leaking body fluids with each other. In the end we removed it, laughed, and had a good nights sleep. After breakfast we went downtown in the hotel shuttle: well we did after listening to the reception staff discussing the fact it wasn’t running because it was low on gas and they weren’t going to use there own money to gas it. In the end one of them got it and took us downtown. We then decided to tour the city centre in a free shuttle bus. However as it was coming towards us it hit some road signs and the very flustered driver said she couldn’t carry on until her boss had seen the damage. Later another shuttle turned up and we toured round. Not a lot to see we concluded. After a second breakfast in a pleasant little cafe the heavens opened so we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum – which was interesting. Then to a bar with a live group playing before going back to the hotel. Tonight we have, hopefully, found a nice German restaurant nearby. And tomorrow we’ll visit the Grand Ole Opry House which is nearly ten miles from the city centre.
