Oktoberfest ist Wunderbar!
So here we sit in a München internet cafe, while it is pouring rain outside, and we wait for our train to Geneva. We can now say that we have experienced Oktoberfest in all its glory. We arrived in town and were sheparded into our 40 bed dorm room. Oktoberfest and the city of München are WUNDERBAR!!
The first day we arrived, we rambled down to the Augusteiner Beer Tent. We proceeded to sit with Richol, Enrichol, Nicole, Sigrid, and a few other of their friends, and had a blast trying to speak to each other in a mix of German and English. Apparently they are comming to visit us for four weeks next year. We then stumbled back to the hostel and managed to get a few good hours of sleep. After the afternoon nap, we woke up and met up with Cory, a fellow canuck from Winnipeg, and went to the Augusteiner Brewhouse for a night cap of a maß or two. I picked up a couple of giant beer steins (don’t ask how) and now I have to figure out how to get them home.
That night we tried to sleep, which was not all that successful, since it was full of intoxicated travellers. This was due to people shouting, arguing, puking, fighting, using fire extinguishers on other hostelers, among other things. The next day we decided to take a walking tour of München’s old town. It has an interesting city story, a much less interesting clock/glockenspiel with life-sized figures in it. The town mascot is an child sized monk guy apparently ordering a beer. We went and checked out a ton of stuff in the town, and then afterwards, our tour guide, Travis (who has a cool Salvador Dali mustache) lead us around the Oktoberfest grounds. After walking a bit through the grounds, we were parched, and went to the Paulander and Hofbrauhaus beer tents, to quench our thirst. He soon had to take off to do some work. Sarah and I then meandered around the grounds trying to find a tent to eat food at the Hacker-Pschorr. We had a delicious 1/2 roast chicken, wurst, and saurkraut. It was delicious
We then spent a few hours trying to find a table to order a beer at the Lowenbrau tent. At oktoberfest, you must be at a table to order anything, and in the evenings, most tables are reservered or quite difficult to get a seat at. Unfortunately we didn’t find this out until we were there, and it took us quite a while. But this took us most of the night, we met and spoke with many friendly germans, south africans, and a few aussies. We ended up going on a huge swing ride that towered over oktoberfest and saw what the festivities look like from 200 feet high, and kinda blurry (from etither the spinning or the beer). Again we made it home and tried to get some sleep despite the tons of noise by people (and pointless discussions of american politics at 3AM). Now its raining and we are waiting for our all day trip through Switzerland to Tignes, France for some glacial skiing!
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