The Australian Embassy Recreational Club is a handsome, French colonial-era building with a swimming pool, manicured garden and extensive space for entertaining, sited on the banks of the Mekong, in Vientiane, Laos.
It’s owned and maintained and used for entertaining by members of the Australian embassy in Vientiane (the embassy is sited elsewhere, in equally salubrious surrounds) and is strictly for the use of Australian passport holders and their invited guests (a recent Facebook page shows happy young Laotian students enjoying a function at the Club).
The Australian Embassy Recreational Club, like the equally well-sited ‘end-of-empire’ clubs left behind by the British,...
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