Dinner in Ashdod

A few guys from my old group working at F28 in Israel wanted to get together for some beers and chose to meet in Ashdod. Now Ashdod is not far from Gaza and it recently received 2 rocket attacks as reported by my coworker. His kids play soccer and went to play in Ashdod for a match. These rockets landed not too far from the field they were at.

Now that someone pushed the pause button on the war I'm OK with getting a little closer to Gaza.

We meet at a Czech/Irish pub (strange combination) in downtown Ashdod. It's funny because it took us some time to find the place using GPS because there is this roundabout which has all the streets leaving it as the same name. So the GPS was all screwed up and we had to ask a local walking the streets where the pub was.

My mistake at the bar:
So there wasn't an English menu and now came the time to order beers. So I asked for a Chimay which is the name of a beer that I saw on the wall walking in and was recommended by a friend. They didn't have it. So I looked around and saw one of Russian AMAT workers beer and said I'll have what he's drinking. He said something but I didn't understand anything other than "Belgium". Sure give me a liter. They come in halves or liters.

So the beers come and I have the largest beer mug because I wasn't eating dinner like everyone else...just drinking. A liter is a huge mug! The color was nice. The mug was nice and frosty. Then I sniffed it and it smelled like cherry. I looked around and asked the other guy if his smelled like cherry and he said "yes I told you it was cherry". I don't speak Hebrew or Russian.

It tasted like cough syrup or maybe sangria like but it was beer. Now some of you girls may have gotten a kick out of this but I didn't care for it.

I manned up and drank it all. Now I won't need cough drops for a while.