Breakfast beers are a great way to start the day. We've done it in every country we've visited. Here are a few of the pictures:
In the US Virgin Islands, it is okay to walk around outside with a beer without fear!
A breakfast beer in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands. 9:45am... at the Hooters.
Matt and Mike enjoying a Breakfast Beer in Olympos, Turkey. 11:15am, in front of a giant cactus.
Lauren having a breakfast beer in Safranbolu, Turkey.... which led to us getting nearly kicked out of our hotel for drinking.... (a hotel which was ironically named The Efe Backpacker's Pension).
Efes is the Turkish beer of choice, and this was our first breakfast beer in Sinop, a bit of a party town on the Black Sea Coast in Northern Turkey.
Mike having a hearty breakfast of beer and bread before jumping on the three hour bus from Tbilisi to Kazbegi, on the Russian border. 9:45am, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
Above, an image of Mike pouring his first breakfast beer in Tbilisi. 9:45am, Republic of Georgia.
Lauren having a breakfast beer in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. 10:00am after a tour of the Push-Push Bazaar.
Mike having a breakfast beer, our earliest yet, as we got of the ship from Turkmenbashi and headed into Baku, Azerbaijan to wait for morning. 5:00am, Baku, Azerbaijan.
Mike having a nice breakfast beer in huohai before we set off to watch the US battle Cuba in the Olympic baseball semifinals (also where we met Vince Vaughn who had been drinking breakfast beers since the night before it seemed.) 10:00am, Beijing, China.
Mike transporting our breakfast beers to the base of the Shanghai TV tower. It was easier than you think getting on the subway loaded down with breakfast beers. 9:00am, Shanghai, China.
Ami and Lauren have breakfast beers over the holidays before touring around the bund, causing quite a bit of confusion to the Chinese who don't celebrate Christmas. "Hey, why are those chicks dressed as creepy old men?) 11:00am, Shanghai, China.
A random guy we don't know carrying two bags of breakfast beers to his friends doing graffiti. Our hero. 11:30am, Shanghai, China.
During the election, the only place in Shanghai with cable was the pub. We arrived at 8am, (with time difference to USA, it was PM back home) had a breakfast beer, and watched history unfold. 8:00am, Shanghai, China.
On the railway to Kashgar, we had our breakfast beers as a carry-on, which might have caused an international incident, were it not so strange. 10:30am, Kashgar, China.
Our breakfast beer on the train, the Tian Shan beer, with the Tian Shan mountains in the background ("hey, that calls for a breakfast beer!") 11:00am, Border crossing, Kazakhstan.
Lauren protects her breakfast beer from thirsty stray kitty at Lyabi Hauz, 10:30am, Bukhara, Uzbekistan.