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<\/a>Not the breakfast of Champions!<\/p><\/div>\n
Saturday<\/strong> \u2013 Breakfast at the Sun Diner<\/strong> where it was confirmed, with menu items like Cr\u00e8me Brulee Cinnamon French Toast<\/strong>\u00a0(which I ordered – photo at left) and Banana Foster Pancakes<\/strong>, that we were not at a health spa eating kale and chia seeds. We also realized that beer for breakfast here is not all that unusual and we certainly didn\u2019t want to draw attention to ourselves by being the only ones not drinking a beer at 9:00 in the morning.<\/p>\n The streets filled quickly with people on this Saturday as we once again found great acoustical music coming from every bar on Broadway<\/strong>, which was virtually every door except those selling cowboy hats and boots. We discovered that Nashville is the Bachelor and Bachelorette Party capital of the world<\/strong>. And most interesting was these partiers’ various modes of transportation up and down Broadway. There was the \u2018Fall Off the Wagon\u2019<\/strong> pulled by a John Deere tractor<\/strong>, there was the \u2018Pedal Tavern\u2019<\/strong>, the \u2018Party Barge\u2019<\/strong> and a couple of other \u2018boat floats\u2019, one called the \u2018Tip Sea\u2019<\/strong> and another called \u2018Ship Faced\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Our fear of not getting enough to drink prompted us to sign up for a late afternoon \u2018Pub As a switch, the bull slings Pam<\/p><\/div>\n Sunday \u2013 <\/strong>Up at the crack of 10:30 \u2013 11:00 and met a friend of Patrick\u2019s and his family for breakfast at the Southern<\/strong>. Yes, Patrick has a friend everywhere; this is the same Patrick who ran into someone he knew when we were in Kathmandu, Nepal<\/strong>! There was a slight sprinkle after breakfast, but not enough to keep Linda and me from doing one last lap around Broadway. We walked up to Printer\u2019s Alley<\/strong>, which at the beginning of the 1900s was home to a thriving printing industry, with two large newspapers, 10 print shops and 13 publishers, and by the \u201840s it was the hub of the nightclub scene in Nashville, but now it\u2019s pretty quiet.<\/p>\n Having finished a big breakfast an hour or so ago, Linda asks if I still want to get some brisket; we agreed that if we could find it somewhere before we leave, we\u2019d have to force it down. She recalled the name of a spot\u00a0 Nashville Travel Recommendations:\u00a0<\/strong>If you’re over 40, absolutely get to the Grand Ole Opry for a radio show, cruise Broadway during the day, forget about the diet you’re on and have brisket early and often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Bob Sparrow Saturday \u2013 Breakfast at the Sun Diner where it was confirmed, with menu items like Cr\u00e8me Brulee Cinnamon French Toast\u00a0(which I ordered – photo at left) and Banana Foster Pancakes, that we were not at a health … read more![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Party-Barge-300x225.jpg\")
<\/a> Crawl\u2019<\/strong>, where we met up with other \u2018crawlers\u2019 from Boston, Michigan<\/strong> and Indiana<\/strong>. Our \u2018Crawl Master\u2019<\/strong> gave us some history of whiskey, Nashville and\u00a0Civil War General Joseph Hooker,<\/strong> where he perpetrated the myth that Hooker\u00a0provided his men with loose women after a hard day on the battlefield and thus the name \u2018hooker\u2019 was coined. Not true, but makes for a good story, especially after a few of beers. Our crawl ended at a karaoke bar called the Wild Beaver Saloon,<\/strong> where Pam rode, but not for very long, the mechanical bull. All our ladies got on stage and sang Don\u2019t Stop<\/em> Believing\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>– you won’t hear that rendition at the next Grammy’s ceremony.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>We then\u00a0decided we needed to get something in our stomach besides alcohol and found a place, don\u2019t ask me the name of it, at that point I could barely remember my own name, but it had a great upstairs patio that overlooked the Cumberland River and Nissan Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans. Most of us ordered brisket, which we still hadn\u2019t had yet.\u00a0 Shortly after we ordered our server returned and told us they were out of brisket. Out of brisket!! That should be a felony in Nashville. We ordered something else, I don\u2019t remember what, I do remember that it wasn\u2019t brisket. After dinner we hit Margaritaville<\/strong> and a few more bars on Broadway<\/strong>, because we clearly hadn\u2019t had enough to drink, and finally made it back to the hotel and crashed. No, now I remember we had to have one more drink at the hotel \u2013 thank goodness the bar was still open!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Pam-233x300.jpg\")
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<\/a>that was recommended to her, called Martin\u2019s BBQ Place<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0We find it and there is a long line to get in. We say we are just going in to look around \u2013 which we were, honest, and squeezed by everyone in line and once inside climbed the stair to an upstairs patio and bar, which was not very crowded. We ask the bartender if we could order a brisket here, he says yes, so we waited for our brisket and ordered a beer from their interesting selection – Hog Wash and A Beer Named Sue to name a frew. After a four-day search, we finally got our brisket. It was delicious!!! We saved some and brought it back to Patrick and Pam, with whom we were flying home.<\/p>\n