Day 20 Brannenburg
Where: Brannenburg, Germany
When: Friday, Sept. 23, 2005
Oktoberfest!!!!!!!!!
Today was all about Oktoberfest. Throughout our travels all week. We’ve seen people dressed in their traditional brindl (sp) for women and lederhosen for men. The lederhosen I found are leather and cost a great deal of money in the tune of about 55€. The type of lederhosen and designs in the ledehosen depends on the region you’Re from on maybe from the town you’re from.
Anyway, today the weather is perfect for festing. On the train groups of festers are already drinking and singing. They do this on those cars that holds the bikes as to not upset the more gentile passengers. How about that, responsible drinkers. The Munich train station is just full of fest goers.
We first went to Marienplatz to do some shopping. This is a pedestrian only shopping street, reminiscent of State st. in Madison except wider boulevard and more trendy big shops. People wathching is great here as Kevin almost broke his neck looking at every beautifull girl and asking them to marry him! j-k, on the marrying thing.
We then took the subway to the Oktoberfest grounds and the cars were packed. The exit leads right to the Oktoberfest grounds beer tents. How’s that for efficiency. No need for a button. No rip-offs here except if you buy a souvineer.
We went to the first 6 tents and they were full. They closed the doors and only let people in that had reservations on when people left. We went in on about 3 of them just to see the crowd. Wonderfull scene. hard to describe. Take the LaX Oktoberfest and multiply that by 10 and repeat that 8 times for each tent. We finally got seats outside of tent 7. But the scene is just as great as two rival Munich soccer team are close by and singing their team songs and taunting the other team and vice versa. There were a few shouting match, but it was all in fun.
Finished 2liters of beer and 2 huge pretzels. Great time at THE fest.
We had to go back early as they have to leave at 3 in the morning for their fllight home.
Auf wiedersehen!
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