Can't Say Strawberry

My my, do I have an awful lot to update on… And with only four days before I’m flying back home!! I can’t even begin to describe how excited I am for Christmas!

But in this post we’re going back to late November ‘09… If asked to name two of the most popular things in Germany, beer and bikes would probably be among some of them, along with bread, staring and waiting at lights (heeheehee). So what do you get when you combine the two?

YOU GET A BIERBIKE THAT’S WHAT!! A bar on wheels! What an EPIC idea! It only needs 6 people to pedal, but you can have up to 16 on one Bierbike. If you check out Bierbike.de then you can see which cities it’s available in (Dortmund in March!!). We did ours in Muenster, capital city of the world if you were to believe Beef, definitely a good choice! We had the bike for two fun-filled hours, in which we (kind of) saw Muenster, albeit through beer goggles, shouted PEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL a lo, particularly when the lights turned green so as to not get caught by another red, and pestered whoever was on bar duty at that point!

I got to play barkeep! I wasn’t very good at it though. Someone asked if I’d done barwork before and I pulled a half pint of froth as an answer. Also did the whole ‘barkeep tells a story about the area’ game, in which I told too many people about the cages at St. Lamberts (see the first Muenster post!), which, as you’ll know from that post, creep me out to no end!

Other fun things that happened on Bierbike:

We got serenaded! TWICE.

Once by some angels and devils who assumed we’d want an English song, being English speakers, until I DEMANDED a German one…

  And once by some dude who sang Country Roads and didn’t understand why no one knew every damn word to the song like he did.

We also picked up some hitchhikers on the way :

Lazy bastards! Let this be their wall of shame…

So all in all Bierbike = SPASS