Memphis, Tennessee.

The home of the blues and of the King of rock and roll...... Elvis! This place is boiling with culture and there is heaps to see and do here. There is a really calming atmosphere in the city centre and there is blues music playing everywhere around you as you walk down the street drinking your beer that you can buy from any number of bars open along the sidewalks. It is a relaxing city and the food here is quite nice and there is no shortage of restaurants each with there own bubbling ambiance.

There are quite a few homeless people here and the crime rate is quite high, it is advisable to never take out your wallet in front of people in the street. Also, don't be blinded or tricked into things by the witty scavengers trying to guilt you into giving them something for a service that they have rendered unbeknown to you such as a shoe clean or a joke. The best thing to do is politely tell them that you are not interested and walk away.

We were standing in a park next to the Fedex stadium which is at one end of the city centre waiting for a bus to take us to our hotel and we were being stalked by a police officer in a highway patrol vehicle for the best part of half an hour. Not long after we were approached by a much less than credible individual asking us for some money for someting to eat and I politely told him no and he walked away sreaming at someone across the road that I assume he knew, when out of the blue two police officers on motorized two wheeled scooters pulled up behind us and told us that we were in a very bad spot and advised us to leave. They rang there base and confirmed our bus times for us and eventually we decided to catch a taxi rather than wait any longer and the police waited with us until we left.

The area down by the Mississippi river is really picturesque and there is a tram, actually there is a couple, which conduct set routes in a circle around the town for a dollar each time you hop on (no tickets) and this is a great way to see the city, and it's cheap!