--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > the joy of drinking... > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Harris.t.html > > Many thanks for this, Bob. Such a funny, well- > written review makes me want to order the book. > > The Bar is certainly a source of fascination.
Nice. One of the coolest, hottest places I remember though I was only there a handful of times was the Hong Kong cafe in Paramaribo, Surinam. A town on the equator carved out of the Amazon jungle, blazing hot. The bar was on the second floor of a building, with a big shaded veranda for sitting and watching the mostly indoors town during the hot afternoon. Used to sit there while drinking ice cold liters of dutch beer, watching the few people on the street braving the sun. Walking in the heat after that was pretty trippy, with heat radiating up off the street and the ground-- palm trees, scrub grass, and the jungle canopy always on any horizon. The colors of everything intensified by the equatorial light, and always feeling submerged in the thickness of the heat.
