I had an awesome time in Amsterdam after WordCamp Europe with Ivelina and some of the other WordPress geeks. We went to Brouwerij”t ij, a small micro brewery with great beers and went out for dinner in a really awesome Chinese place. I didn’t think Europe had any good Chinese restaurants, but it turns out I was wrong 🙂
My lovely friend Nadia (the original English one, not the Norwegian one), decided to try beer for the first time. She however made the n00b mistake of deciding to try cheap nasty Norwegian alcohol free beer. This was never going to go well. I insisted she needed to try proper alcoholic beer, preferably from Germany, Belgium or the Czech republic. I don’t think I’ll ever get her to try alcoholic beer, so since I was in Germany where they seem to serve alcohol free beer in every bar, I decided to have a bash at comparing two supposedly identical beers to see if it were actually possible to get a drinkable alcohol free beer.
I found a bar in Berlin which served one of my favourite brews, Erdinger Weissbier, alongside it’s alcohol free equivalent, Erdinger Weissbier Alkoholfrei. The bar tender served them both up in identical glasses and didn’t tell me which was which. One had a distinct wheaty hoppy taste, the other tasted like Weissbier and got me drunk. Conclusion … even high quality German beer tastes bad when it’s alcohol free.
I visited Susan, an awesome girl I know from Dunedin, in Wuppertal Germany. Wuppertal is a small city near Dusseldorf. It is famous for the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, a very old but unique train system which hangs the trains from above rather than on tracks.
I had my first experience of AirBNB in Leiden in the Netherlands. It was a really nice place at a good price and with a terrific view. I forsee some more AirBNB’ing in my future 🙂
I’m currently sitting in a teeny tiny pub in Bonn (Germany), drinking something called a Kristall weiss, which according to the bar tender is apparently like a regular weissbier, but it’s filtered so it doesn’t have the cloudy weissbier thing going on. Imma starting to feel a little drunk 😉
Ivelina and I went to a Shisha pipe place in Amsterdam. It’s not really my kind of thing. I mostly spluttered and coughed. Ivelina clearly enjoys it a whole lot more than me though 😉
Space cake apparently makes it even more enjoyable 🙂 That’s also not my kind of thing though.
We had a shuffleboard tournament in Dramman for Kiwis. Lots of fun had by all 🙂
Shuffleboard is a rather strange table top sport. It feels like a cross between ten pin bowling, curling and pool.
At 29 years of age, Ross William Ulbricht has been charged with running Silk Road.
What confuses me, is that these are supposedly the ways he got caught. All of which seem like trivial things that he should never have been doing.
Here is a snapshot from his LinkedIn page, in case it is taken down at some point.
Somehow, I have managed to never play the illustrious game of beer pong. Tonight was my lovely flatmate Charlottes birthday party, where I got to break my beer pong duck finally, and we won too, thanks to my kick butt teammates 🙂
