Soo I'm just back from another exciting weekend of travling! This time it was my frist trip out of the coutry and it was off to Munich for the world famous Oktoberfest! And let me tell you that I can barely describe the place! We got to munich on Friday (after having to sleep in the airport - my first experience with that and take a 645 AM flight haha) and checked into our hotel and things and then it was off to the fairgrounds. I walked around for the first like 20 minutes with my mouth like wide open - I've never seen anthing like it before! It was an enormous fair grounds (much like an annual fair near my hometown, the Topsfield fair, but on steroids) it was covered in people, crazy carnival rides, games, and foooooood! And of course 8-10 beer tents that had beer gardens outside which were insane! Each beer tent can hold between 8500 and 10000 people! and then the gardens, which is the outdoor section is full of
benches and can prob hold another like 600-2000 people as well! People drink these ridiculous huge beers called steins and eat some of the weirdest foods! I got to the festival and first it was time for a sausage! Delicious! And then, I had to get my first stein! The first beer we tried was by far the best, from the beer house Augstiner. My group was not pushing our luck with multiple steins, so we just walked around through the tents we could get into, trying different sausages and roasted nuts! We stayed until closing, at about 11 or so then it was home to sleep and prepare for the Saturday! We had to be up early because we wanted to get into a beer tent and unless you make a reservation you have to be in line super early or you wont get it. So we had to be to the fair grounds by 8AM and then we had to stand in line -in front of the Hoffbrau house becuase we were told it was the best and one of the biggest - literally pressed up against people and everytime the door even remotely opened you'd get surged forward
and it was basically like a panic attack waiting to happen. We've basically equated it to getting to see a favorite rockstar or waiting in line at like the door the the Tweeter Center if you have lawn seats.
German oom - pa -pa band as they call them starts playing and the crowd is cheering and cheers-ing and everyone starts to get a bit loosened up and its just literally madness the rest of the day! The band even played some american tunes like Sweet Home Alabama, New York New York, the twist and this one they loved that goes like "heyyyy hey baby oo ahh i wanna knoooooowwww if youll be my girl" unfortunately that the ONLY line they know so they repeat it the whole time! It was fun though! The beer maids carry anywhere from like 4-10 steins at a time and literally people keep blowing right through them! It's insane! I myself was not that quick with them, they're huge mugs! And I wanted to stay in the tent as long as I could, because they're so popular once you leave, you can't get back in. And two of the people I met were in authentic German costumes of leiderhosen and a drindl, the outfits that most natives were also wearing! We met alot of people this weekend beyond our little group because most people are really nice (though it might be the beer talking!) and a lot of people speak english. Also at our table was a group of 3 men from Denmark, Mikel, Mes and Alexander who are currently interning in Germany and we spent the day with them too. They were alot of fun, and very good dancers! It really is just a very happy place! I mean everyone is in such a good mood and the tradition of the festival is almost 200 years old! So its a really fun celebration! On Sunday we got to do a bit of sightseeing in Munich. Which is a beautiful city! My Grampy told me to go see the glockenspeil so i couldnt dissapoint him! So we walked around and I ate more sausage and some potato salad which was delicious! And then beore I know it, it was back on the plane home! Though things got a little confusing and I got off the train from rome to my town and I ended up having to wait an hour then take another train and wait another hour and take
a bus back to Perugia and then a taxi home! So it was a long trek home but well worth it for my fabulous
weekend!
It was so fun to see another country other than Italy and it makes me excited for my fall break coming up! Things are a little frustrating travel wise, but ALWAYS worth the hassel! I love Europe and I love traveling and I can't wait to do it again next weekend!
benches and can prob hold another like 600-2000 people as well! People drink these ridiculous huge beers called steins and eat some of the weirdest foods! I got to the festival and first it was time for a sausage! Delicious! And then, I had to get my first stein! The first beer we tried was by far the best, from the beer house Augstiner. My group was not pushing our luck with multiple steins, so we just walked around through the tents we could get into, trying different sausages and roasted nuts! We stayed until closing, at about 11 or so then it was home to sleep and prepare for the Saturday! We had to be up early because we wanted to get into a beer tent and unless you make a reservation you have to be in line super early or you wont get it. So we had to be to the fair grounds by 8AM and then we had to stand in line -in front of the Hoffbrau house becuase we were told it was the best and one of the biggest - literally pressed up against people and everytime the door even remotely opened you'd get surged forward
and it was basically like a panic attack waiting to happen. We've basically equated it to getting to see a favorite rockstar or waiting in line at like the door the the Tweeter Center if you have lawn seats.
German oom - pa -pa band as they call them starts playing and the crowd is cheering and cheers-ing and everyone starts to get a bit loosened up and its just literally madness the rest of the day! The band even played some american tunes like Sweet Home Alabama, New York New York, the twist and this one they loved that goes like "heyyyy hey baby oo ahh i wanna knoooooowwww if youll be my girl" unfortunately that the ONLY line they know so they repeat it the whole time! It was fun though! The beer maids carry anywhere from like 4-10 steins at a time and literally people keep blowing right through them! It's insane! I myself was not that quick with them, they're huge mugs! And I wanted to stay in the tent as long as I could, because they're so popular once you leave, you can't get back in. And two of the people I met were in authentic German costumes of leiderhosen and a drindl, the outfits that most natives were also wearing! We met alot of people this weekend beyond our little group because most people are really nice (though it might be the beer talking!) and a lot of people speak english. Also at our table was a group of 3 men from Denmark, Mikel, Mes and Alexander who are currently interning in Germany and we spent the day with them too. They were alot of fun, and very good dancers! It really is just a very happy place! I mean everyone is in such a good mood and the tradition of the festival is almost 200 years old! So its a really fun celebration! On Sunday we got to do a bit of sightseeing in Munich. Which is a beautiful city! My Grampy told me to go see the glockenspeil so i couldnt dissapoint him! So we walked around and I ate more sausage and some potato salad which was delicious! And then beore I know it, it was back on the plane home! Though things got a little confusing and I got off the train from rome to my town and I ended up having to wait an hour then take another train and wait another hour and take
a bus back to Perugia and then a taxi home! So it was a long trek home but well worth it for my fabulous
weekend!
It was so fun to see another country other than Italy and it makes me excited for my fall break coming up! Things are a little frustrating travel wise, but ALWAYS worth the hassel! I love Europe and I love traveling and I can't wait to do it again next weekend!
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