HAPPY OKTOBERFEST EVERYONE!
We were in Munich this time last year and it was so much fun. Germany is a great place to go on holiday. Everyone is really friendly and enthusiastic and they are happy to let you point at things when you're ordering food/tickets. We were in Munich during the beer festival - a coincidence, but a very happy one. I was kind of wrinkling my nose about the beer festival, ready to write it off as something for tourists to throw money at, until I saw that EVERYONE, absolutely everyone you can see, is wearing dirndls and lederhosen, hats with feathers tucked in the band and side-tie leather shoes. (I got quite obsessed with the
feather pins and spent hours trying to find a shop that sold them. I eventually found one in an unlikely U-Bahn station.)
The whole of Munich is pretty festive this time of year, but the beer park is the famous bit of the festival. And it is totally nuts. It is exactly like Disneyland if Mickey Mouse was a stein of beer. There are huge mock castles and mock lodges, decked out in flags and streamers with oompah bands playing and wooden platters the size of logs covered in meat and bread. Astounding.
It is worth seeing at least once and it seems to have a great party atmosphere all day, so if you're looking for a good, not-wild time, lunch is a pretty good bet.
Auf Wiedersehen!
