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peteryoung
...the Mars Bars in your hotel mini-bar are cheaper than the Mars Bars at your local supermarket.
It's about fifteen years since I've been to Pakistan and never before to Islamabad, a city designed in the 1960s by a firm of Greek architects. No Doric columns anywhere.
Given that the storming of the Red Mosque happened here just recently (it's a place I would like to see but is probably, at present, best avoided), here's our current list of 'Don'ts', because they're considered too dangerous:
– Don't go to KFC, or Pizza Hut.
– Don't go to any of the local markets, especially the Abpara Market.
– Don't be in the vicinity of mosques at prayer times, especially on Fridays.
– Don't go to Rawalpindi on a Friday.
– Don't go out alone.
– Don't buy DVDs/CDs. "Customs regulations now forbid the purchase of pirate DVDs/CDs to be exported from Pakistan by airline crew."
I can drink alcohol in the hotel, but first I have to sign a form declaring that I'm an alcoholic. A must-do, then.
Addendum 1: Any hotel that has Keith Jarrett as elevator music is fine by me.
Addendum 2: London fandom, have a good time at the BSFA tonight and someone please say hi to Anne Sudworth for me.
It's about fifteen years since I've been to Pakistan and never before to Islamabad, a city designed in the 1960s by a firm of Greek architects. No Doric columns anywhere.
Given that the storming of the Red Mosque happened here just recently (it's a place I would like to see but is probably, at present, best avoided), here's our current list of 'Don'ts', because they're considered too dangerous:
– Don't go to KFC, or Pizza Hut.
– Don't go to any of the local markets, especially the Abpara Market.
– Don't be in the vicinity of mosques at prayer times, especially on Fridays.
– Don't go to Rawalpindi on a Friday.
– Don't go out alone.
– Don't buy DVDs/CDs. "Customs regulations now forbid the purchase of pirate DVDs/CDs to be exported from Pakistan by airline crew."
I can drink alcohol in the hotel, but first I have to sign a form declaring that I'm an alcoholic. A must-do, then.
Addendum 1: Any hotel that has Keith Jarrett as elevator music is fine by me.
Addendum 2: London fandom, have a good time at the BSFA tonight and someone please say hi to Anne Sudworth for me.
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:32 am (UTC)I should hope so! Sort of a reverse-Pledge; how often does such a chance arise? Sign it, copy it, bring it back and frame it...
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Date: 2007-07-25 11:37 am (UTC)– Don't go to KFC, or Pizza Hut.
To be fair, that's good advice in any city.
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Date: 2007-07-25 12:31 pm (UTC)