Di and Cam

Oktoberfest

Posted by Di and Cam | 18th October 2009

Hello everybody

Oktoberfest was a trip which we were both excited and nervous about. To summarise, it is a large beer festival in Munich which has representation from all the large German and Bavarian breweries. It runs for three weeks and culminates in the first weekend of October. Friends of ours have been before and we've heard all sorts of debaucherous stories of their trips, thus us being slightly nervous about what to expect. Although, there was a group of 13 of us going to share the experience so what could possibly go wrong...?

A brief description:
- each brewery has their own tent where they serve their own beer; these tents are decorated on the inside and are about as big as a medium sized aircraft hangar and have seating for about 6,000 people within each tent
- to get a table and a chance at being served you have to be at a tent at about 10am in the morning
- you buy beer in one litre steins (you can also buy half steins but nobody does)
- each tent has its own ki

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