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Around a 4 hour drive down to Atlanta from Nashville (a bit longer with loo stops and lunch at the famous Buc-ee’s with the largest gas station we have ever seen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armed with a massive cooler full of iced beers we battled the traffic and arrived at our 72 storey hotel – and then straight out on the beers to the nearest dive bar with great live music and lots of Oasis once again…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around a 4 hour drive down to Atlanta from Nashville (a bit longer with loo stops and lunch at the famous Buc-ee’s with the largest gas station we have ever seen). Armed with a massive cooler full of iced beers we battled the traffic and arrived at our 72 storey hotel – and then straight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2212,"url":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/FOOTBALL\/2026\/07\/england-v-dr-congo-atlanta\/","url_meta":{"origin":2171,"position":0},"title":"England v DR Congo, Atlanta","date":"2 July 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Stifling heat and humidity so the covered Atlanta Stadium was very welcome. 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