tja...crazy swissies!

Hi there!
just a short message from Basel, I really have to share this crazy story with you!
After my shock about the Vignette you need on your bike, yesterday this happened; I was biking home from a night in the city when I ran into a police check-point, so I thought everything was ok (traffic lights were off, light on my bike were functioning) but they stopped me.. Asked for my ID, I showed my Dutch ID, was no problem, but the police guy asked whether I live in Switzerland or not, so honest as I am I said yes, then he asked for my Auslanderausweiss, which I ofcourse left at home...so they made some problems about that but in the end that was ok. But now the funny part comes; I had to do a alcohol test!! the Swiss police checks bikers for alcohol use! I actually had to laugh a little about this (what they didn’t like I guess) . But I did the test and fortunately I didn’t drink that much, so my promilage was 0.18 (just under the 2.0 limit!) In the end everything was ok, but they wasted about 15 minutes of my valuable time! I really think it’s ridiculous to check bikers on alcohol, what do they want me to do? Walk home? Before I didn’t realize Switzerland is so cyclist
Unfriendly…or maybe its just because I am an Auslander…
BUT for the rest everything is tiptop here! This weekend we will make a trip to Lugano (a city in the south of Swissieland)
Ciaoo!