Catch the yellow midnight beer bus

Evenings ending up in friends+beer: episode 27364. The open-topped bus and free Corona one.

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I've not really drunk very much Corona before. If at all. But this was a bit different. Last week, during a night at Jim Morrisson's final pub, the Mazet, the usual suspects had blagged us onto a list of invitésto catch a yellow open-topped bus at mindight and drive around the sights of Paris while consuming free beer and generally making a noise. As if a ludicrous yellow open-topped bus with "Corona" written down the side going up the Champs-Elysées wasn't going to grab enough attention on its own.

I can thoroughly recommend this as a highly profitable way of spending an evening. You can meet friendly randoms with similar interests (largely limited admittedly to beer and, er, free nonsense), get drunk with them while trying to stand up on the top deck of a moving bus (which is a stupid idea even before you involve alcohol, and banned in most countries including funnily enough France) and, for extra points, avoid getting hit on any of Paris' numerous tree-lined avenues. The potential for spillage and indeed minor injury is frankly huge. Even better, you can wave at the people paying 5€ for an espresso in a horrific tourist café, raise a bottle to them, and feel smugly superior despite the fact that you look completely daft.