OKTOBERFEST

Well the stories about this place don´t lie. During Oktoberfest Munich is jammed packed with english speaking people ready to get as much beer in them as humanly possible. Perfect time for some adventures...

What I first thought about Oktoberfest was you´d pay to get in the grounds...they´d sit you at a table, and then they just bring you as much beer as you want. Turns out I was waaaaay out in left field. Here´s a picture for you...I meet up with some others who´ve never been to Oktoberfest and we commence down to the grounds. I´m thinking there´s going to be an orderly fashion about this...woah momma...nope.

If you´re lucky enough to find a spot, flag down a person to bring you a beer and have enough for an 8.25 beer, then you´re well on your way to the glory of Oktoberfest. Now don´t get me wrong, the glasses are the biggest things I´ve seen in my life...you could lose small children inside them. Also the beers pretty good too.
Oktoberfest is absolutely massive...people everywhere, the smells of food floating inside your nostrils, the sounds and lights going off everywhere. It´s baseically an enormous adult carnival...even though there´s lots of kids there too.
I tried everything from giant winiersnitzles to candied almonds...by far some of the most fun I´ve had at a carnival in a long time...actually just walking around watching people can be pretty amusing as well.

Still one of my craziest experiences thus far had nothing to do with Oktoberfest...it had to do with getting back to my hostel.

Walking back to my hostel after closing at Oktoberfest I get turned around in the barrage of people pilling out of the grounds...as I end up walking in the wrong direction I pass some guy staring me down with the ugliest look on his face. As I walk past I give him a what´s your problem type look...thinking nothing of it, just that it was weird. A little later on I have this strange inclination that Im being followed...I casually turn around and sure enough, its this guy on his bike. Now I wasn´t going to freak out at this...I just thought, maybe this was his way home. Except to make sure...I take a turn, the guy follows, another corner, he follows. I decide to stop at a convinient store just to see if the people will scare him off. Yup...he´s waiting outside...acting like he´s looking at the tree´s. So now I´m thinking...does this guy want to rob me...or turn me into a lampshade. Ya I´m not going to keep up with this game, so I head out of the store and quickly cut around a corner...soon enough I hear the guy peddling fast to catch up. But I´m waiting there right around the corner. The guy see´s me and stops, I then yell at the guy asking him what´s his problem and to get the hell away from me(of course it was a little harsher then this, but you get the idea) I then turn around and walk away...and that as they say is how you proffesionally handle a German Stalker.

Unfortunately for me after trying to ditch that loser I end up getting lost myself...cool...I guess I´ll keep walking this way...I´m bouuuund to find something I know....uh ya nothing of the sorts. I did manage to snap a picture of the streets I was at when I was completely and utterly lost. Looking back I still laugh to myself because I´ve been in Lisbon, Madrid and now Munich around midnight...walking around...lost.

Finally I broke down and did something I hate...take a cab. When I tell the driver where I need to go he looks at me and asks...what are you doing over here, you´re hostle is like a 10 minute walk from Oktoberfest. Ya...thanks there Sherlock...guess I was just out for an evening stroll and lost track of time.


The next day was my day to walk around the city of Munich and see some sights, buuuut I think I saw enough of the city the night before that I´ll stick to some Oktoberfest shopping...I buy a stein and t-shirt as I go about my way to find a unique little museum. Turns out the museum has been closed for a year...oh well it was a good little hike. Again Munich is another great European city...very pricy, but I want to head back at a time other then Oktoberfest. If I had bugeted properly during my stay it may have been possible to go on the third reich tour. Also I never got to see the Olympic grounds or the BMW building...saw pictures, the places looks crazy, but never saw it face to face.

Still I had a great time at Oktoberfest...met tons and tons of people...drank beer out of amazing cups, went on carnival rides, ate some tasty local German food and got stalked for the first time...ahhh the experiences.