In Nashville, Tennessee we met our friends Toni and Margitta Kahler who came all the way down from Illinois (north of Chicago). They lived near Heidelberg for many years. Since all four of us like Country Music, we picked Nashville for our reunion, so that we could visit the Grand Ole Opry together.

The Grand Ole Opry is a live radio show of Country Music. It is the longest-running continuous radio program in the US and has not missed a broadcast (every Friday and Saturday) since its beginning in 1925. The shows are normally performed in the Grand Ole Opry House (4400 seats).
Opryland is a big complex which incorporates the Grand Ole Opry House, a museum, Opryland Hotel, a shopping mall Opry Mills and more.
Opryland Hotel features three interior garden spaces under glass roofs with more than 10000 tropical plants, a waterfall and a river and lake system. Integrated into these gardens are 5 lovely restaurants, in one of which the four of us had lunch.

Grand Ole Opry Opry Mills Opryland Hotel Inside Opryland Hotel

Downtown Nashville

Tennessee State Capitol Bicentennial Park The Parthenon Ryman Auditorium

The Parthenon is the only full size replica of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens in the world. It is the home of Nashville’s permanent art collections. Ryman Auditorium (2100 seats) was originally built in 1892 as a church. It later became a theater and the original home of the Grand Ole Opry.

Belle Meade Plantation, located 7 miles (11 km) southwest from downtown Nashville, was originally the centerpiece of a 5400-acre (22 km²)working plantation and Thoroughbred (horse breeding) farm.

Belle Meade Mansion (1853) Carriage House

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