Picture left: Though low season is allready hitting Patong full in everybodies face, we at J&B's didn't complain about the amount of people who joined us in celebrating Queensnight on the eve of Queensday in The Netherlands...
But first a few words about
Black Queensday
Read entry in www.mpgsadventures.blogspot.com about Black Queensday.
A foul exception of what has allways been such a happy and unity bringing day for our Dutch people and whomever took the trouble celebrating it with, on this day, happy crazy Dutch people will know what I mean when saying these words!
Read my little entry on my other weblog if you like. Much appreciated though!!
Queensnight at J&B bar
At J&B's we decided to celebrate not only the Dutch Queensnight but same time the end of the High Season here in Phuket Thailand and........ yea yea, as some of you heard allready from me earlier while visiting our bar, the closing of J&B at its present location for the low season and using this period the find and create a new and better J&B!! Ready latest to open its doors well before the start of the next High Season.... whatever that might hold for all of us here in Phuket!
And we would not be J&B if we wouldn't close our season with a cool and pleasing party for all who enjoyed participating in it!
The Queensnight celebration started at 2300 hours and lasted till well after 2 am this time, but by then it had also turned into a small wake because J&B was, after al, closing its doors at its present location so some tears were spend on that as well. As it should be! We have a lot of god memories attached to J&B of which Cid and Kik hold the most and lucky me had the opportunity to share many of those these last 6 months! Ofcourse we also hope that most or all of you readers will share same sentiments.
Because our celebration was more or less a "3 in 1" party, we served typical Dutch snacks like "bitterballen" and "vlammetjes", "frites" or french fries as they are called all over the world, and for a toast on the Dutch Queen we used "jenever", a typical Dutch drink which one can not get in Thailand and as such one is not allowed to sell. Instead we gave a glass to every customer and friend who came to J&B's after midnight to toast with me/us on the good health HM Queen Beatrix. It was funny though how in general the Thai reacted on tasting jenever, even when receiving just one little glass of the stuff, haha... and to think they are used to drink (Thai) whiskey, tequila and all that stuff combined in one evening of regular drinking. jenever proved to be somewhat different for them and we all had the more fun because of that ;-)
After the last performance I, Rob, announced that we woulkd shut down J&B latest 1st of May on its present location and were looking forward to move to a better location within paradise Complex before latest september or as soon as we can manage to secure the right place for J&B to continue better then it had till now. I was happy that this announcement was greeted by chears and applause by our customers and friends.
We wil keep you all informed via this weblog about our progress in this repect and we all hope we can me good on our promiss to return better then we have ben sofar!!
Next to updates about the search for a new location I will also enter little reviews of new places (re)opening in Paradise, some restaurants nearby etc.!
I hereby like to thank not only our staff for all their loyalty to J&B, but specially also to Cid and Kik. Cid as the previous owner of J&B who stayed very much involved with J&B and Kik who helped him these past years and who managed J&B after we took over last November. But most of all we like to thank our customers who made it all so worthwhile and fun to do.
I am still surprised of all these interesting people I had the honor of talking too while they visited J&B.. may htye be farang/tourists or Thai...I thak you all for a wonderfull experience and look forward to welcome you with Kik and our staff at our new location, where ever that might be, latest sometime september!
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