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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| Last orders, please (Norks to close last expat club) |
| 2005-10-03 |
| As a huge fan of bizarre places to have a drink ( Proud owner of bizar souvenirs as: "Area 51: Been there, done that" Beer-mug and: "Hurj Al Arab", imitation cristal model of the hotel (it gets even better, the model stands on little rotating pedestal lit from below by leds, I swear, only someone from Saudi-Arabia could have the audacity to call this beautifull, but I digress) botlle-opener (I shit you not)) it saddens me to the core that yet another bar that I should have had a beer at before reaching my current age, seems to be consigned to the dustbin of historie. "Of all the bars in all the world, there is probably none as exclusive, surreal or intriguing as the Random Access Club in Pyongyang. There are also few institutions that are quite so necessary to the mental well-being of the customers. Open for business only on Friday nights, the RAC is a watering hole for North Korea's tiny expatriate community; the 300 foreign residents allowed to live among the 22 million population of the planet's most reclusive nation." Favorit part: "To find a place like the RAC in the midst of this is like seeing a tiny postcard of Brighton beach stuck on Picasso's Guernica, or having the latest Peter Greenaway film interrupted by a few seconds of Neighbours" Anyone here know some good pubs in Teheran, or say, the Falklands? |
| Posted by:Evert V. in NL |