Oktoberfest!!!!! Two days takes ten years off your life!!!
For my whole life I wanted to attend Oktoberfest in Munich. Little did I know that with the combination of camping and being in the huge tents all day, would definitely take years off my life.
I was with six friends that I teach with (all couples). We left out of Cairo in the afternoon, and barely made our connection from Frankfurt to Munich. We arrived in at night and took a bus to the central train station. We then jumped on one train, then another train finally arriving in a quiet part of Munich, where we walked almost an hour to find the campground (all of us ignoring signs along the way). We finally arrived at the campsite, had a beer, then languidly went off to bed and proceeded to freeze our butts off.
We woke up the next day and went into 3 tents. I can honestly say that by five o clock we were all finished with (keep in mind they serve liter beers and the alcohol content is over 5 percent. We lost one of our friends who got separated from us and went back to camp and proceeded to have more to drink at the camp bar…..After that….the haze hits until we woke up the next morning.
We went back to Oktoberfest and proceeded to have more to drink and eat and had a blast meeting and talking with people as everyone is so friendly. Mind you that I stuck out like a sore thumb as I was the only person wearing a baseball cap. We went to a couple different tents and proceeded to drink and drink and drink. We finally got back to the campsite and proceeded to drink more and I actually ended up dancing. The end of the night would prove to be disastrous as while I was sleeping in my tent, I had my D7100 camera stolen from my tent (they didn’t take my other one or my iphones). I went around the next morning looking for it, but to no avail…….I call it collateral damage, but lost most of my good photos from the trip, luckily I had some friends there with their photos!!!!!……now it was time to jump on a train for a couple of nights in Salzburg……..
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One response to “Off the Beaten Path-Munich, Germany (Oktoberfest)”
My freshman year of college was at a branch of the Univ. of Md. on the army base in Munich. It was quite the learning experience, but I think my education was more about college life in Munich than it was about my courses. My first Octoberfest was incredible! Could not get over the size of the tents, the size of the beers, the alcoholic content, or the amount one could consume. So much fun–even now, some 50 years later, I still have vivid memories. Glad you got to do this.