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Pam wipes out Ronnie’s legendary kava bar :(

TheKavaSociety

TheKavaSociety

New Zealand
Kava Vendor
"RONNIE’S Nakamal, the famous Vanuatu kava bar, is finished, its owner says.
For 28 years, Ronnie Watson has been running the Port Vila drinking venue, which has been frequented nightly by dozens of locals, tourists and expats.
But the ferocious winds of Cyclone Pam lifted up the thatched shelters and bar in the popular venue and dropped them like decks of cards.
The only thing left standing is a big, white freezer with a drum of kava inside that had been mixed the night before."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...gendary-kava-bar/story-e6frg6so-1227267042047
 
TheKavaSociety

TheKavaSociety

New Zealand
Kava Vendor
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For 28 years, Ronnie Watson has been running the Port Vila drinking venue, which has been frequented nightly by dozens of locals, tourists and expats.
But the ferocious winds of Cyclone Pam lifted up the thatched shelters and bar in the popular venue and dropped them like decks of cards.
The only thing left standing is a big, white freezer with a drum of kava inside that had been mixed the night before.

“It’s finished — Ronnie’s is gone, nothing’s left,” Mr Watson said.
“We don’t know if we’ll keep going, or if it’s time to do something else.”

Kava, a bitter, mildly intoxicating drink made from the ground root of the kava plant, is a national institution and a serious cash crop in Vanuatu.
It’s drunk daily by the vast majority of the population and there are more than 100 kava bars in Port Vila alone. After the cyclone passed, everyone wanted a cup of kava and when they realised he had a drum left, “the line went back so, so far”, Mr Watson said.
Many kava bars, or nakamals, are still standing and Mr Watson is thinking about moving on, rather than rebuilding.

Luckily, he has a day job — he runs the bar because his family grows kava plants on the northwest island of Malekula. Mr Watson has heard nothing from any of them yet, or anyone else on the outer islands.
He fears the cyclone may have devastated the country’s kava farms.

AAP"
 
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