Between 28th May and 7th of June 2011 we rode from Copenhagen to Berlin with a group of about 80 truly enthusiastic participants from Denmark, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Latvia, France, Canada, USA, Australia, France and Belgium.

There are many stories to be shared and all the participants will have their own stories: we talked, talked, talked about libraries and librarianship (these librarypeople are unstoppable!). We visited local libraries, saw the Danish “open libraries”, ate food by Claus Meyer, had a Skype-lecture from Buffy Hamilton, enjoyed music and drinks, argued about cataloguing rules, made friends, fixed punctured tyres, participated in a singing performance in California, invested about 1.8 million calories in bicycling, experienced the absolutely stunning Danish and German countryside scenery, saw cute baby ponies, swimmed, had the Polizei halt the Autobahn in Rostock for us librarians, made the cover of several newspapers, appeared on radio news and on This Week in Libraries and on many professional library magazines, even watched some powerpoints in auditoriums, talked about management structures of libraries, shared best practices about Open Data, innovated quite a lot, got sunburned, and eventually, after stopping the traffic in downtown Berlin, we merged into 100th Bibliothekartage in Berlin.

Good times…

Don’t believe us? You can Google us, or see our the 30 minute documentary movie

See the nine 3-minute daily videos

See other videos on YouTube.

See the 1700 photos (and counting!) on Flickr (open the group slideshow and sit back)

Et cetera.