{"id":19026,"date":"2019-08-19T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T09:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=19026"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T14:16:55","slug":"amsterdam-red-light-district-heavy-metal-excalibur-bar-and-the-san-francisco-nightpub-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/amsterdam-red-light-district-heavy-metal-excalibur-bar-and-the-san-francisco-nightpub-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Amsterdam red light district, heavy metal Excalibur bar and the San Francisco nightpub – in photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This set of photos was taken late at night around the Amsterdam red light district, and also in two bars we visited in the area: the Excalibur bar and the San Francisco ‘nightpub.’<\/p>\n

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Walking into the red light district.<\/p>\n

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The red light district is a strange place, with prostitutes pouting and posing behind full length glass doors while hoards of tourists amble by and gawk.<\/p>\n

It’s also in a very pretty part of town.<\/p>\n

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Right in the middle of the red light district is the no-holds-barred Excalibur Bar<\/a>, which pumps out heavy metal whilst dispensing voluminous amounts of Jagermeister and beer.<\/p>\n

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The walls are decorated with motorbikes and suits of armour and it’s a wonderfully rambunctious place to slosh back booze.<\/p>\n

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The bar closes at 1am in the week (3am on Fridays and Saturdays) so we made a short walk up to the San Francisco nightpub, sadly encountering some daft homophobic twat on the way.<\/p>\n

As we walked up to the bar, we encountered a bloke who kept aggressively shouting “flicker” at me. I thought he may have been over enthusiastically promoting his flickr photo account, but in fact he was saying, ‘flikker’ which I later learnt meant ‘faggot’ or ‘queer.’ He was holding a bag of chips at the time, which I was ready to shove in his stupid bigoted face, but wiser council prevailed and I left to attend to another pint.<\/p>\n

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The doorman at the San Francisco<\/a> was a real gent and bought us all drinks.<\/p>\n

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