It's Tuesday morning at EPCA in Berlin. Another damp grey morning. Feeling damp and grey yourself? Are you all partied out from three nights in town? Here's the ICIS Chemicals Confidential Top 5 of EPCA Parties 2007:
1 Mitsubishi - great Saturday night start to the event - Ruinart champagne and wall-to-wall sushi
2 Mitsui - caiparinhas and fab sushi, and where in pursuit of my plan to do a "Top 5 Chemical Moustaches", this splendid gentleman agreed to be photographed. 
3 Vopak - bellydancers, breakdancers, champagne and dancefloor packed with 6-foot shipbrokers
4 Gaschem - wonderful night-time view over Berlin from the balcony of the Pan Am lounge, Topfenknoedel and wild entertainment.
5 EPCA Opening Reception and Walking Dinner - hours of pink fizz, patient bus drivers home and, apparently, stacks of famous paintings (somehow I missed them). But walking dinner? Is more time on your feet really what we need?
The Iberica Tanker Chartering party
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120 guests, serenely gliding along the rivers and canals of Berlin on Monday night. Great buffet, and plenty, and I mean plenty of beverages to help conversation flow.
For the more adventurous, after disembarkment it was a short hop to a private club for music and dancing and maybe another small drink. Finding a taxi at 3 am is a bit of a challenge, but the fresh air is a good way to sober up. The rain that fell about then was not so welcome however. All in all, another great party. Thanks go to the lovely ladies and great guys at Iberica Tanker Chartering.