Prost!!!!!!

I SURVIVED OKTOBERFEST 2006

What a fun fun fun time. Before I got to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany I was not a beer drinker. Well I could do it if I had to but never really enjoyed it. Well I am converted after drinking many many steins of beer (1 L each)! German beer is awesome. Yum!!!

We got to Munich onThurday night after a 12 hour train trip from Warsaw, Poland. Not much to say about Warsaw really, was not particularly impressed. The city was basically flattened after WWII and so all the old buildings have been rebuilt. Good on them for that but when walking around the old town it just felt like a movie set really. It was very grey there and no one smiled. I obviously did not fit in.

Our first day in the beer halls was Friday and we went into the Augistina tent (I think thats how you spell it). We were reccomended it by germans and it was great, loads of germans and good beer!! I cant really paint a picture of the halls, you kind of have to go and see for yourself.

But imagine... a huge, huge hall, an oompah band playing traditional german songs and tacky english 80s love ballads, bavarians dressed up in the lauderhousen (sorry for the spelling!!) traditional get up and everyone dancing on the tables after a few too many steins. The steins are 1 litre each and huge!!! The beer wenches can carry like 12 at a time. Crazy!!!!

You drink from 10 am in the morning until 10 pm at night when they stop serving beer. As you might imagine it gets a little messy!

We had saturday off and had a look around munich at another church, another amazing old building (im not over europe at all!!). No, Munich is actually really nice and the bavarian people here are loively and very chilled out.

We had another big day in the tents yesterday and did basically the same thing but tried a few different tents which was good!! Were off to Fussen today to see the castle that inspired the disney castle. And then Dresden and Berlin. Cant wait for Berlin should be great!

Ciao for now and Prost (Cheers!)

xoxoxoxo