Subject: Post: The words Jerusalem and good nightlife usually are not the ones you would expect to hear together. Jerusalem actually has surprisingly vivid and lively nightlife. Yesterday we were slightly unlucky with that, as the Jewish festival kept all the bars closed, but today we went out for a couple of hours before we start our trip towards the airport.<p>The most active nightlife area of the city was totally full of young people, partying on the street and on the terraces of the bars. We stopped by a cafe playing nice rock music, and were about to go somewhere else as the place was slightly empty.. The bartenders persuaded us to stay, and promised to offer us free tequila shots, free narquila and some metal music. Well, that offer couldn't be resisted and we had beers in there :)<p>After that, we headed down to an alternative music bar, where artistic-looking people were mostly sitting on the street enjoying their beers. Not a bad place either. It's really shame we had no more time for this city, as it both has really a lot of historical daytime sights and seems to have a great nightlife also :)<p>It's sometimes funny to notice how divided the city is. There is a Palestinian beer named Taybeh, which we were enjoying last night in one of the alternative places here. Today we were asking for Taybeh in many places, and getting answers like "It's an Arab beer, you are in Israel, get a Jewish one" and "I haven't seen it around here in 15 years".. And still the place right next door was happily selling it. The another alternative place we went today had it on tap, without a name tag :)<p>I forgot to mention it earlier, but there are really a lot of people on the street wearing the traditional Jewish costumes, mostly (or only) men. Too bad I don't have any photos of them...<p>Now it's time to move to the airport after packing up our stuff and enjoy a few more hours of strict Israeli security checks and possible interrogations with our passport stamps. The plane will take off at 05.15, and we should be in Riga at 09.45 in the morning, probably closely resembling zombies at that point. Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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