Fri. 24 Jun. - Evening, Marietta Square ...

The hotel runs afree  shuttle bus which we used to transport us down to the town (they call it a City!) square. Certainly it saved our leg muscles.

The square was really buzzing, thousands of people were crammed in there, but it wasn't claustraphobic at all. Lots of the eateries were full, even with waiting lists for tables..

We did find an Irish bar (http://www.johnniemaccrackens.com) just off the square and got a atable outside

this place has a list of beers thas spans several A4 pages, both draught and bottled beers from around the world. I was very adveturous and ordered a pint of draught Guiness (I know what I like!)

above: 3 Harleys parked next to our pavement table.

As we were waiting for food service, the band started their 3 hours set on the main stage.

As wet sat there there was a constand stream of people walking in carrying deck chair , huge coolboxes and the like.


We finished our meal and set off towards the main square.

It was packed but not so you couldn't walk around.

So we wandered, around and about, in and out...

tried some "Snowball" - not what you might think of as a Snowball, this was non alcoholic, made of shaved Ice, our choice of flavor being Georgia peach. Thats that one ticked off then!.

by about 10 oclock, with band still having an hour to play, we decided to return to the hotel, so summoned the shuttle to pick us up, and he was there in a few minutes.

Back at the hotel, we met up with several of the others on our tour, and the tour leaders Jan and Nig from HVT. We had a nightcap with them before retiring for the night at about midnight.

To be continued ....