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To the world of America's South...and the three cities that create a golden triangle of idyllic proportions. Old world sophistication with a modern touch, this is a land full of warmth and romance, of music, food and tradition...and then more music and food.
Atlanta, the peach of Georgia, is dubbed the Capital of the New South. It's where the nostalgia of Gone With the Wind envelops the gleaming skyscrapers and all the trappings that hosting the 1996 Olympic Games has brought. Atlanta is the shopping mecca of the South, a place of quaint neighbourhoods home to a dizzying array of galleries, museums and parks.
Nashville, capital of Tennessee, to the northwest of Atlanta, is home not only to country music but to a much broader spectrum of rootsy, rocking sounds christened Americana...music for everyone. Yet there's much more to the place than simply its music. Nashville has long been known as the Athens of the South for it's style and sophistication, but even so the life-size replica of Greece's Parthenon still comes as a striking surprise. There are brand new sports venues and sophisticated restaurants, rubbing shoulders with historic music bars on the banks of the Cumberland River.
New Orleans, at the end of a breath-taking road trip to the South in deepest Louisiana, is the old world personified but with an irrepressible passion for life. The ornate, iron-balconied architecture of the French Quarter, stretching down to the mighty Mississippi, is alive 24 hours a day with the sounds of traditional New Orleans jazz and the rich dance rhythms of Cajun and Zydeco music. The Cajun and Creole cuisine is as rich as the musical backdrop. And the downtown shopping malls are enough to warm the heart too.
All three cities are united by the sultry heat of the South, by a reflection of things past and a romance of things to be. Take in all of them and see the Southern states as they were meant to be...
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Atlanta
Visit the Sweet Auburn Curb Market for local farmers' organic produce, Italian and Caribbean specialities and the Planet Bombay Indian restaurant.
Nashville
Take the dinner cruise from Gaylord Opryland...sip Jack Daniel's at the deck bars and marvel at the city lights as you turn around at the end of Lower Broadway.
New Orleans
Look out for fab acts such as the Subdudes, Alex Chilton, Dash Rip Rock and Sonny Landreth for the New Orleans crossover sound, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys for modern Cajun/zydeco and Geno Delafose and Joe Walker for zydeco.
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