Oktoberfest!

Finally, with a one year delay, we went to the Oktoberfest!!!
TBBE won this trip as a reward for the best poster on one of the conferences :-)
Our visit to Munich started with a visit to the St. Paul's Church tower that has an amazing view on the Theresienwiese where Oktoberfest takes place.

Being encouraged by the delivery of fresh beer...

... we explored many types of German entertainment, like:

or:

and my favourite:

 and finally joined the largest beer drinking society that we have ever seen:

The tent was full of partying (standing - not enough space for seating), drinking (or drunk already), singing (or shouting) German (!!!!!) schlagers and absolutely happy people!!! 

After the first Mass we started to feel and enjoy the atmosphere much more and in the end we liked it a lot!!!! So much that we were tempted to cure the hangover with... sour cucumbers :-)

On the way back to our flat we discovered how friendly German Police can be! They were watching people accessing the metro station and playing very positive tunes (peace, love and Bob Marley ;-) from their car. I guess that the music was played in order to relax people while the policemen were recovering the smuggled beer glasses from their hands :-)

To summarize:

If you are a beer lover and you do not mind crowds - visiting Oktoberfest is something to try once. If you additionally know German schlagers and you have a group of friends who will join you - you will probably visit it even more than once! We enjoyed the historical background of the event highlighted (read more about the history) because of its 200. anniversary - very interesting! And finally we enjoyed all the time in Munich: sightseeing, drinking and eating with our guide and our good old friends!

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