eurovision

Hello, I'm Row and I'm one of the People's Champions here at innocent. I'm here to look after all of our drinkers, and be their voice inside Fruit Towers.  I recently went on a little journey to visit my European counterparts and here are some of the highlights, largely of the culinary variety, from my trip.

First stop was Amsterdam, where after a day imparting great wisdom and British colloquialisms, Ine and Jeroen took me out for a traditional Dutch meal.  I'm the sort of girl who gets nervous when the word 'surprise' is used around food, and even more so when it's followed by a vague description of 'meat mousse.'  Whatever that mousse was, it was good.

Ine, me, Jeroen and a strategically placed lampshade in The Blue Dutchman

Disaster struck, as the annual event of me losing my voice began.  My fears were compounded when my taxi driver choose the classical channel playing "The Funeral March" over Bruce Springsteen as I was about to leave.

extended vowels to reflect my northern accent

Next up was Hamburg, where I was off to see Brigitte.  After narrowly missing out on becoming a silhouette model (darn those clouds), she took me to Fillet of Soul, where no meat mousses were offered.  Instead, I decided to plump for elsässer flammkuchen mit speck, zwiebellauch, creme fraiche, rucola und balsamico.  No surprises there then.

In Copenhagen, the lovely Emile made sure I had copious amounts of warm drinks and chocolate, the two things a girl needs when she's feeling under the weather.

Naturally this wasn't just a feed-Row-up trip, I should stress that copious amounts of training and divulging of great knowledge went on.  If ever you pop into any of our European offices, the lovely Carlien, Brigitte and Emilie will make you feel very welcome, as they did me.  A big dank u, danke and tak to all of them for looking after me so well.

now available in german

The innocent wee-o-meter has been translated.

karma in a bottle

A few days ago we met lots of friendly Buddhist monks in Hamburg. Simon, Estelle, Annemarie, Katie, Marcel and Roshan from our German office nipped down to see the monks on the occasion of the Dalai Lama visiting Hamburg.

And our Tibetan friends were very happy to have a drink on us, as you can see.

"I'll give you 5 Euros and the key to everlasting contentment if I can have that yellow one."

the great bottle hunt is over

Our friends in Germany have closed the competition to find all of the hidden bottles in the picture shown below.

For the record, the bottles were hidden in the following places:

* in the fruit bowl
* on the sofa
* in the plant pot
* on the bike's chainguard
* and there are a couple on Insa's desk in the background

Six bottles in total. Estelle (in the red jumper) tells me that they've been swamped with entries, so no more, please.

Wilkommen in Deutschland

It's official - innocent is launching in Germany today . Our drinks are going to be available in cities all over Germany.

Here are our bottles, with their new German labels:

But not only do we have new drinks. We also have new vans, pictured below with a few of our German folks (more on them soon).

So, that's drinks and a couple of grassy vans. But we thought we'd also get ourselves a place to work too. And a couple of months ago we found the perfect spot for Fruit Towers Germany – the Fruchthof in Hamburg, which spookily enough is the old fruit wholesale area near the harbour, next to the Deichtorhallen. It needed a bit of work...

But it's better now.

(We've hidden a few smoothie bottles in the picture. Send an email to hallo@innocentdrinks.de to tell us how many there are and if you find them all we'll send you a little Easter gift.)

***UPDATE - the great bottle hunt is over - answers here.***

The new place also has some very attractive nighttime views.

Now the only thing we are waiting for are some people to drink our smoothies. So if you happen to buy one of our drinks over Easter in Germany, send us a picture of yourself with the bottle and we'll make you famous (or at least post the picture on this blog).

Tschüss und bis bald

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(more German stuff here)