Wow I am so excited!!!! After delicious dinner at home (made by our dear cook Kingsley), we decided to go out.
First destination was the Jazz concert in a place called Jazz Hole (it was a real hole from the outside :)) in Ikoyi. When we arrived, I was asking where was the place as from the outside, I would never think that there could be a nice place inside (see below :)).
Contrary to how it looks, Jazz Hole is a book and music store with rich archive. There was a very nice group playing street jazz mixed with soul and r&b. It was like the real jazz experience from New Orleans. The audience was a balanced mix of white and black Lagos residents. We also learned that there was a performance in this hole (!) every Friday! yaaayyy :))) After two hours of delicious music, the concert ended and we decided to continue for the night at expats' usual place: Radisson Blu Hotel's bar in Victoria Island.
While you are going from Ikoyi to VI (short-cut for Victoria Island ;)), you see Radisson Blu's blue lights reflected on the ocean. It was so nice and posh that everybody was chilling while sipping their drinks. The music was lively as it was like we were in a club but everybody was relaxing in their chair rather than dancing like crazy.
It was so crowded but we finally found a table to sip our Mojito and Capirinha. :)) The music was so nice that they were playing all the popular dance hits; even hey hey (dennis ferrer) as my favorite!!! We stayed there until like 12.30 am and it was the time for the crowd to move to the club or their homes (we were on this second camp :)).
As expectedly, there were many security controls on the way back but as we were with our trusted driver, we went through all of them with no issue.
SUMMARY of first night out: delight of jazz, enjoy Radisson's ocean-looking bar and no security issue! I call it a nite out in Lagoss :))
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