*rubbing sleep out of my eyes*

It’s 4.52am.

The house is quiet. Everyone’s asleep. Ahead of me is an 8-hour  1,000 km journey involving taxis, planes, airport lounges, fast food, security checks, a bus and finally a train before I arrive in Örebro for the beer festival.

Time to make sure I’ve got everything:

Suitcase (that’s unfeasibly large for a two day trip so that I can fill it with bottles of beer for the journey back) – check.

Camera (so I can take dozens of pictures of beer/bottles of beer/glasses/glasses with beer in them/people pouring beer into glasses, which I will eventually only use two of) – check.

Clean pants, socks, a trendy shirt and a toothbrush – check

Lack of a Geeky Beer T-shirt (point six) – check

Sense of humour – far too early for that.

I’ll be posting live from the festival this afternoon so check back if you can for updates.

Let the madness begin……

UPDATE: 13.28:

1,000 km later I’ve just arrived. Checked in and reeved up. Thinking of going straight for the Kaggens Stormaktsporter and Swedish Oak on the Närkes stand and then it’s free-wheeling from then on. Feeling the beer geek in me bursting to get out……