Thursday, 21 April 2011
These feet were made for walking.....
We saw Newport at its best today, walking miles on a glorious sunny spring day. Setting out from the town centre, we walked between the waterfront piers that provide moorings for pleasure craft and are home to slick shops, bars, and great sea-food.
A quick 'diner' breakfast and we homed-in on the 'Mansion District' and the Cliff-top Walk, one of the most beautiful treks in the USA. The path follows the cliffs alongside the Atlantic and backs-on to countless mansions, each one unique and reminiscent of 'Mandalay'.
Once built by some of America's greatest entrepreneurs, each was designed to get-one-over on the neighbours.......they have to be seen to be believed! It was interesting to discover that the 'Astor Mansion' (which we toured on an earlier visit) has just been taken into private ownership again by a modern-day entrepreneur....the CEO and founder of 'Oracle'!!
Mid-afternoon and we wandered back into the Historic Downtown District and then drove along Ocean Drive, watching the surfers and taking-in the stunning views. 
Early evening and it was time to head for the Atlantic Beach Club for their 'Early Bird Special' and another look at the sun setting over the ocean. I picked the following music link today, simply because it played whilst I drove along the Ocean Drive and it just seemed 'right'!
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Great pics guys, perfect weather for walking the Atlantic coastline, and an excellent choice of music. There’s so many things to say about Green Onions. The walking bass line from Donald Duck Dunn, Steve Cropper’s Telecaster chops, Al Jackson Jnr’s wonderful light touch drumming that was to help make Al Green a star, but that was silenced in 1975 when he was shot dead in a ‘bungled burglary’ which was probably a means of ending a dispute about unpaid royalties, and Booker T Jones’ classic Hammond B3. What we hear on the record may not be played by Booker T at all, because on the night it was recorded, it’s said he was too busy studying for his High School exams, so Isaac Hayes stepped and recorded it for him. I saw Booker T and the MGs at the Manchester Odeon on the Stax-Volt Tour of 1967, along with Otis Redding, Carla Thomas, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave and the Bar Keys as well. Now, about the sea-food …
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