Road Trip part 3 Nashville to Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge

Day 4 - Can't even remember what the hotel was like.... After breakfast we headed into Nashville and specifically, to Broadway the main street. Lots of colourful shops, sculptures, people....it was buzzing with music coming from the bars and restaurants even at 11:00 in the morning (and soooo hot)! I was amazed at how cosmopolitan it was, I wasn't expecting highrise glass towers (of which there were loads)......

The final visit in Nashville was the shop for the TV series "American Pickers" who travel the US buying antiques.....

We drove on to Gatlinburg which was the biggest suprise of the trip.  It is home to Dolly Parton's theme park and water park granted (actually just a short trip off the main drag), but what I wasn't expecting was a full on tourist destination at the bottom of the Blue Ridge mountains!  It had 365 days a year christmas shops, crazy/mini golf, restaurants galore, gift shops, ball parks and much more besides. And, we were passing through to the next town of Pigeon Forge, which is exactly the same as Gatlinburg!!!!

Last two pictures are Pigeon Forge and the hotel we stayed in. Pigeon Forge is a real tourist attraction, buzzing, restaurants, bars, shops, cable car, walking to be done etc. etc. and I bet a fab place to be come winter!

Day 5 was spent in Dollywood water park, ALL day in the sun, sweating, burning....... etc., etc. Until it was time to get back in the air-conditioned car (yaaaaaaaay) and set sail for our log cabin in the Blue Ridge mountains. http://nomadicfridays.blogspot.com/2016/07/road-trip-blue-ridge-mountains.html