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We have done three trips to Nashville in the past three years, all of them in November/December and all of them basically just to see live concerts. I tell people I love Nashville and it’s absolutely true, although it’s basically with the caveat that I’ve seen maybe 5% of Nashville (downtown and the area around Grand Ole Opry. So the tourist parts of Nashville are quite fun. The rest of the city that people actually live in? I have no idea. But that’s not the point. Our first Nashville trip was the result of a couple of things - a variety of people we know saying how much fun they had in Nashville and we should go, and Food Network celebrity chef Maneet Chauhan having restaurants in the city. So we booked ourselves a trip to Nashville, made reservations at The Mockingbird, and I also bought ourselves tickets to a charity dinner that Maneet was holding when we were there in the hopes we would meet her. Which we did. She’s absolutely lovely. We also did our first trip to the Grand Ole Op...