i liked Nashville but not the broadway area. I was there on a Friday night and holy shit that is something.
Yeah it's a scene. We enjoyed it on Monday, but just walking by on Saturday was enough to realize that we didn't want to hang out in those bars that night. At one point on Sunday maybe, we went into Johnny Cash's bar (which is attached to the Johnny Cash Museum like 1-2 blocks off Broadway IIRC). My wife remarked that we had wandered into "the old people bar" and it was easily my favorite bar we went to.
I think we ate at the pizza/italian place across the street from there. Because when you're in Nashville, you gotta get pizza.
We also ate at the giant food court place and I agree with your assessment.
We were there on a 1) weekend 2) of a holiday (NYE) 3) with an event going on (bowl game) and 4) we had our kids with us. Related, I did not enjoy the Broadway area at all.
Yeah it's a scene. We enjoyed it on Monday, but just walking by on Saturday was enough to realize that we didn't want to hang out in those bars that night. At one point on Sunday maybe, we went into Johnny Cash's bar (which is attached to the Johnny Cash Museum like 1-2 blocks off Broadway IIRC). My wife remarked that we had wandered into "the old people bar" and it was easily my favorite bar we went to.
I think we ate at the pizza/italian place across the street from there. Because when you're in Nashville, you gotta get pizza.
We also ate at the giant food court place and I agree with your assessment.
We were there on a 1) weekend 2) of a holiday (NYE) 3) with an event going on (bowl game) and 4) we had our kids with us. Related, I did not enjoy the Broadway area at all.
Yeah that sounds like the worst possible place to be with those 4 things going on.
We got pizza for lunch once too. The farmers' market has a smaller food court place next to it, and we shared a personal pizza from the wood-fired pizza jawn in there. We weren't that hungry but were about to depart on a 30-minute walk and then hit the HOF so we felt we needed something. It was pizza. Cool story.
I think we ate at the pizza/italian place across the street from there. Because when you're in Nashville, you gotta get pizza.
We also ate at the giant food court place and I agree with your assessment.
We were there on a 1) weekend 2) of a holiday (NYE) 3) with an event going on (bowl game) and 4) we had our kids with us. Related, I did not enjoy the Broadway area at all.
Yeah that sounds like the worst possible place to be with those 4 things going on.
We got pizza for lunch once too. The farmers' market has a smaller food court place next to it, and we shared a personal pizza from the wood-fired pizza jawn in there. We weren't that hungry but were about to depart on a 30-minute walk and then hit the HOF so we felt we needed something. It was pizza. Cool story.
id imagine next year I’ll be back in Nashville for another two weeks. I’ll bring hot Tracey
Yeah that sounds like the worst possible place to be with those 4 things going on.
We got pizza for lunch once too. The farmers' market has a smaller food court place next to it, and we shared a personal pizza from the wood-fired pizza jawn in there. We weren't that hungry but were about to depart on a 30-minute walk and then hit the HOF so we felt we needed something. It was pizza. Cool story.
id imagine next year I’ll be back in Nashville for another two weeks. I’ll bring hot Tracey
I spent 9 days in the Dominican Republic. My wife hadn't been back there since she was a teenager, her dad lives there now, along with a bunch of other family members, so we definitely got the less "touristy" version of the country. Flew into Santo Domingo and stayed there only one day, thank God. Crazy traffic, there are basically no rules to driving there, other than "just go". No yielding, no stopping at stop signs/lights....it's utter chaos. The whole country is like this, but it was far worse in the capital city. Oddly enough though, there was really no road rage incidents that I saw. The other thing I noticed was how disorganized the power grid is. Just nests of wires on every telephone/power pole, I think they just run new wire every time there's a problem and leave the old wire up there. Unsurprisingly, there's frequent short power outages all over the country. I'm not one to go to another culture and tell them how to do things better, but these two issues need to be cleaned up, IMO.
In the Santo Domingo we ate at a couple local places that were very good, obviously a lot of rice, beans, and plantains were eaten on this trip. Any chance I could get to have tre gulpe (a Dominican breakfast) I had that. It's fried eggs, mashed plantains with onions, fried up salami and fried Dominican cheese. Very good, very filling.
We ended the trip on the north coast of the island at a town called Las Terranes. It's an up and coming tourist spot, where two of my wife's cousins that live here in the States have AirBNB's. Spent 4 days on the beach there drinking Presidentes and snorkelling all day. I finally got a meal that didn't agreee with me on my last meal there on Friday night, which made for a queasy flight home. All in all it was a good time, I'll definitely be going back often. Just wish they'd stop driving like morons there.
I spent 9 days in the Dominican Republic. My wife hadn't been back there since she was a teenager, her dad lives there now, along with a bunch of other family members, so we definitely got the less "touristy" version of the country. Flew into Santo Domingo and stayed there only one day, thank God. Crazy traffic, there are basically no rules to driving there, other than "just go". No yielding, no stopping at stop signs/lights....it's utter chaos. The whole country is like this, but it was far worse in the capital city. Oddly enough though, there was really no road rage incidents that I saw. The other thing I noticed was how disorganized the power grid is. Just nests of wires on every telephone/power pole, I think they just run new wire every time there's a problem and leave the old wire up there. Unsurprisingly, there's frequent short power outages all over the country. I'm not one to go to another culture and tell them how to do things better, but these two issues need to be cleaned up, IMO.
In the Santo Domingo we ate at a couple local places that were very good, obviously a lot of rice, beans, and plantains were eaten on this trip. Any chance I could get to have tre gulpe (a Dominican breakfast) I had that. It's fried eggs, mashed plantains with onions, fried up salami and fried Dominican cheese. Very good, very filling.
We ended the trip on the north coast of the island at a town called Las Terranes. It's an up and coming tourist spot, where two of my wife's cousins that live here in the States have AirBNB's. Spent 4 days on the beach there drinking Presidentes and snorkelling all day. I finally got a meal that didn't agreee with me on my last meal there on Friday night, which made for a queasy flight home. All in all it was a good time, I'll definitely be going back often. Just wish they'd stop driving like morons there.
That sounds fantastic!
What was your Street Dominos record for the trip?
Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? - Joy Behar
I spent 9 days in the Dominican Republic. My wife hadn't been back there since she was a teenager, her dad lives there now, along with a bunch of other family members, so we definitely got the less "touristy" version of the country. Flew into Santo Domingo and stayed there only one day, thank God. Crazy traffic, there are basically no rules to driving there, other than "just go". No yielding, no stopping at stop signs/lights....it's utter chaos. The whole country is like this, but it was far worse in the capital city. Oddly enough though, there was really no road rage incidents that I saw. The other thing I noticed was how disorganized the power grid is. Just nests of wires on every telephone/power pole, I think they just run new wire every time there's a problem and leave the old wire up there. Unsurprisingly, there's frequent short power outages all over the country. I'm not one to go to another culture and tell them how to do things better, but these two issues need to be cleaned up, IMO.
In the Santo Domingo we ate at a couple local places that were very good, obviously a lot of rice, beans, and plantains were eaten on this trip. Any chance I could get to have tre gulpe (a Dominican breakfast) I had that. It's fried eggs, mashed plantains with onions, fried up salami and fried Dominican cheese. Very good, very filling.
We ended the trip on the north coast of the island at a town called Las Terranes. It's an up and coming tourist spot, where two of my wife's cousins that live here in the States have AirBNB's. Spent 4 days on the beach there drinking Presidentes and snorkelling all day. I finally got a meal that didn't agreee with me on my last meal there on Friday night, which made for a queasy flight home. All in all it was a good time, I'll definitely be going back often. Just wish they'd stop driving like morons there.
Did you have the ribs at that restaurant? From the reviews that seems to be the specialty.
I spent 9 days in the Dominican Republic. My wife hadn't been back there since she was a teenager, her dad lives there now, along with a bunch of other family members, so we definitely got the less "touristy" version of the country. Flew into Santo Domingo and stayed there only one day, thank God. Crazy traffic, there are basically no rules to driving there, other than "just go". No yielding, no stopping at stop signs/lights....it's utter chaos. The whole country is like this, but it was far worse in the capital city. Oddly enough though, there was really no road rage incidents that I saw. The other thing I noticed was how disorganized the power grid is. Just nests of wires on every telephone/power pole, I think they just run new wire every time there's a problem and leave the old wire up there. Unsurprisingly, there's frequent short power outages all over the country. I'm not one to go to another culture and tell them how to do things better, but these two issues need to be cleaned up, IMO.
In the Santo Domingo we ate at a couple local places that were very good, obviously a lot of rice, beans, and plantains were eaten on this trip. Any chance I could get to have tre gulpe (a Dominican breakfast) I had that. It's fried eggs, mashed plantains with onions, fried up salami and fried Dominican cheese. Very good, very filling.
We ended the trip on the north coast of the island at a town called Las Terranes. It's an up and coming tourist spot, where two of my wife's cousins that live here in the States have AirBNB's. Spent 4 days on the beach there drinking Presidentes and snorkelling all day. I finally got a meal that didn't agreee with me on my last meal there on Friday night, which made for a queasy flight home. All in all it was a good time, I'll definitely be going back often. Just wish they'd stop driving like morons there.
Did you have the ribs at that restaurant? From the reviews that seems to be the specialty.
Sounds like a good time.
I did have the ribs! My FIL tried to talk me into ordering the guinea fowl, thankfully I passed on that.
UEM, we played a lot of dominoes at the AirBNB, taught my youngest daughter how to play.
Sounds like a really good trip. I've never been anywhere in the Caribbean outside of resorts/cruise ship ports, so I have no experience with the "real" countries, but I bet it's awesome. And best of all: Hardly any white guys!
Guinea fowl is what UEM calls chicken parm.
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Sounds like a really good trip. I've never been anywhere in the Caribbean outside of resorts/cruise ship ports, so I have no experience with the "real" countries, but I bet it's awesome. And best of all: Hardly any white guys!
Guinea fowl is what UEM calls chicken parm.
I am pretty much the same. One day in the Bahamas I went to a locals restaurant away from the tourist areas and it was one of the most fun experiences I have had in the Caribbean.
Sounds like a really good trip. I've never been anywhere in the Caribbean outside of resorts/cruise ship ports, so I have no experience with the "real" countries, but I bet it's awesome. And best of all: Hardly any white guys!
Guinea fowl is what UEM calls chicken parm.
I am pretty much the same. One day in the Bahamas I went to a locals restaurant away from the tourist areas and it was one of the most fun experiences I have had in the Caribbean.
That reminds me, I was having a mild argument with my wife about what classifies as being in the Caribbean. I don't think of the Bahamas as being Caribbean mainly because the main island is like right across from Stuart, but the there's a bunch of Bahamain islands to the south that I guess you could call them Caribbean even though they're in the Atlantic. My wife also tried lumping Bermuda into a Caribbean island, which I can't even....I just let that one go. Pick your battles, sons.
I am pretty much the same. One day in the Bahamas I went to a locals restaurant away from the tourist areas and it was one of the most fun experiences I have had in the Caribbean.
That reminds me, I was having a mild argument with my wife about what classifies as being in the Caribbean. I don't think of the Bahamas as being Caribbean mainly because the main island is like right across from Stuart, but the there's a bunch of Bahamain islands to the south that I guess you could call them Caribbean even though they're in the Atlantic. My wife also tried lumping Bermuda into a Caribbean island, which I can't even....I just let that one go. Pick your battles, sons.
