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Gospel, Blues and Southern Fried Chicken
... Beale Street, a tacky mall full of dive bars and eating houses, but very interesting and managed to see a great blues band on a Sunday night.
Today we went to the famous and beautiful Peabody Hotel, they have 5 resident ducks who live on the roof and each day at 11am they are marched into the elevator and over a red carpet into the fountain. They stay here all ...
Day 16 - Memphis - Tennessee
... there and it all grew from there (obviously the original ducks are long gone but there's always a new family ready to spend some time in this luxurious hotel fountain). Last but not least was dinner at King's Palace in Beale Street complete with blues accompaniment and blackened catfish (I don't even know how to start to describe what the catfish was like, it's like nothing I've ever tasted before, but was quite yummy). I am determined to try all the different tastes of the ...
A Night of Music
... We got ready for the evening and headed across the street to the coffee shop. Eclectic is the only word that comes to mind. There was a mixture of poetry and original music, including comedy, love, and politics. Marquise and Denzel both prepared a poem to read. It was fun to experience their open mic debut.
Afterwards we ...
Day 10 - Memphis, Tennessee
... the fish had been jumping on the line earlier in the day, but by now it was mid afternoon and the heat was intense. We only stayed an hour or so before heading back to the hotel.
We grabbed a drink and lunch in the hotel bar and planned our trip to Chattanooga tomorrow; deciding on the scenic route rather than the interstate, although it was only 6 minutes longer...so why wouldn't you! The pulled pork sandwich was way too big ...
Treme, Tennessee and Trees. And Trees. And Trees.
... interesting than trees. The track became a bit more uneven as well, lots of swaying to and fro which is great fun at the top of a double decker train carriage. The scenery is much more of what I expected from this area. Fields which go on to the horizon, lone cars driving down a dirt track kicking up a cloud of dust behind them, and massive crop sprayers.
I have to say, the people who work on the trains in America seem much more cheerful than those in Britain. The seem ...
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