MUNICH (19th - 23rd)
Our first night was very timid. Spent a little time searching for fealmarkets & bike shops so we could ride on the Vennbahn Trail from Luxembourg to Germany. Google lied to us about where one was located and the second shot was closed until the day before we left Munich. After the search we settled on a doner for afternoon tea and a farmers plate of olives, cheese, dip, breat & crackers for dinner in our hotel room.
Ibis Hotel was great! Cheaper than Joe & Aime's hostel and they supplied breakfast too!
Day 2: Involved meeting up with everyone at 9.30am. Joe, Amie, Brendan & Andy all looked a bit seedy but they soldiered on & led the way to the massive Hofbrauhaus tent in Oktoberfest. By 10.30am the tent was already full and roudy with person after person standing up on the benches & skulling entire steins! There was a loud american bloke on our table that got kicked out by 11am coz he was (a fuckwit) too drunk. A chick on the table next to us who decided it would be a good idea to skull two steins before 11.30am. She followed that up by promptly spewing back up into the glass and spending the next 4 hours with her head in her hands.
We started putting bets on when she would recover with the longest bet being 4pm. We all lost.
Brendan managed to pick up twice. By the end of the night while they were engaged they toppled off the chairs onto the floor, an action shot which I missed on the camera by about 0.25 seconds.
Any stuck with pretzels all dayto save cash on food until he realised that he'd spent 15E on pretzels & could have purchased half a chicken for that price! We ended up being in the tent for 12 hours and left in darkness back to our hotel :S
Day 3: Met everyone at the more respectable time of 11.30am at the Oktoberfest gate. Today was Tom's first day so we all had to back up yesterdays effort! Went to the Paulaner tent this time & sat on a table with this old swiss bloke in a fluro shirt named Roberto. He started off being a bit of a drain on the table but managed to join us dancing on the benches by the end of the night. I kept managing to order crappy sausages off the menus somehow. At about 6pm I left the tent to go pick up this crappy bike I found on a trade website. The tent was prett ycalm when I left so it was a suprise to return at 7.30pm to see the whole tent up on chairs raucously cheersing & dancing to the band! Left tent at night and bought a massive pizza which we devoured on the bed back at our hotel.
Day 4: Each day our meeting times became later & later! Today we met at 12.30pm and graced the Lowenbrau tent with our presence. Best beer at the festival was here in my opinion. Light, fruity & went down easy after two full days of drinking.
Laura & I had a prett ysuccessful morning though, buying a bike for her at a shop for 75E. The bike ended up being a piece of rubbish, but more on that later. We had a stein in the tent and left to organise bike tickets for our train ride to Trier. It ended up costing us another 70E to get the bikes to Trier because we had to buy tickets to a different train that initially purchased. Lesson here is always buy your bike tickets at the same time as your train tickets. And if you are travelling near Oktoberfest, book them in advance!!
We returned to the tent and partied on with some older German women before Brendan got grumpy because a group of women jumped on our table & they weren't drinking! They weren't enough fun for him so we moved & then hugged everyone goodbye.
Our first night was very timid. Spent a little time searching for fealmarkets & bike shops so we could ride on the Vennbahn Trail from Luxembourg to Germany. Google lied to us about where one was located and the second shot was closed until the day before we left Munich. After the search we settled on a doner for afternoon tea and a farmers plate of olives, cheese, dip, breat & crackers for dinner in our hotel room.
Ibis Hotel was great! Cheaper than Joe & Aime's hostel and they supplied breakfast too!
Day 2: Involved meeting up with everyone at 9.30am. Joe, Amie, Brendan & Andy all looked a bit seedy but they soldiered on & led the way to the massive Hofbrauhaus tent in Oktoberfest. By 10.30am the tent was already full and roudy with person after person standing up on the benches & skulling entire steins! There was a loud american bloke on our table that got kicked out by 11am coz he was (a fuckwit) too drunk. A chick on the table next to us who decided it would be a good idea to skull two steins before 11.30am. She followed that up by promptly spewing back up into the glass and spending the next 4 hours with her head in her hands.
We started putting bets on when she would recover with the longest bet being 4pm. We all lost.
Brendan managed to pick up twice. By the end of the night while they were engaged they toppled off the chairs onto the floor, an action shot which I missed on the camera by about 0.25 seconds.
Any stuck with pretzels all dayto save cash on food until he realised that he'd spent 15E on pretzels & could have purchased half a chicken for that price! We ended up being in the tent for 12 hours and left in darkness back to our hotel :S
Day 3: Met everyone at the more respectable time of 11.30am at the Oktoberfest gate. Today was Tom's first day so we all had to back up yesterdays effort! Went to the Paulaner tent this time & sat on a table with this old swiss bloke in a fluro shirt named Roberto. He started off being a bit of a drain on the table but managed to join us dancing on the benches by the end of the night. I kept managing to order crappy sausages off the menus somehow. At about 6pm I left the tent to go pick up this crappy bike I found on a trade website. The tent was prett ycalm when I left so it was a suprise to return at 7.30pm to see the whole tent up on chairs raucously cheersing & dancing to the band! Left tent at night and bought a massive pizza which we devoured on the bed back at our hotel.
Day 4: Each day our meeting times became later & later! Today we met at 12.30pm and graced the Lowenbrau tent with our presence. Best beer at the festival was here in my opinion. Light, fruity & went down easy after two full days of drinking.
Laura & I had a prett ysuccessful morning though, buying a bike for her at a shop for 75E. The bike ended up being a piece of rubbish, but more on that later. We had a stein in the tent and left to organise bike tickets for our train ride to Trier. It ended up costing us another 70E to get the bikes to Trier because we had to buy tickets to a different train that initially purchased. Lesson here is always buy your bike tickets at the same time as your train tickets. And if you are travelling near Oktoberfest, book them in advance!!
We returned to the tent and partied on with some older German women before Brendan got grumpy because a group of women jumped on our table & they weren't drinking! They weren't enough fun for him so we moved & then hugged everyone goodbye.
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