Oktoberfest in Munich
Well blow me sideways and cover me in beer.
Imagine Hobart show, remove the animals and craft stuff, times the rides by 3, and add about 16 huge beer 'tents' (these are actually massive halls). Add to those tents a progressively inebriated audience to some crazy german band and a whole bunch of beer wenches....... Beer heaven I say. The crowd just gets louder and louder, more beer gets spilled on the ground than actually gets drunk due to all the 'prosting'... Unbelievable atmosphere!!! Can't explain it well enough, you just need to be there.
I'll write a separate post later regarding the shit that happened on Tuesday night, but let's just say I lost EVERYTHING (passport, tickets, Visa.. the works), and spent hours looking for my bag.... Several really lucky things happened the next day which ended up with me having my bag back with everything. The only outstanding issues was the cancelled Visa card = no cash... Luckily I was meeting Craig Wednesday night and he loaned me some to get me through to when my replacement card would arrive.
Wednesday night: met up with Craig and went to meet the Contiki group he was with. Damn, some of those guys were WASTED!!!! They were prosting with all their might... Imagine a Mohammed Ali left hook, add a 1 litre stein of beer and 5 really pissed guys.... there were broken glasses every 5 minutes, and heaps of spilt beer. Janine ended up wearing over a litre for the night!! Hit some of the rollercoasters after a few steins and have them both on movie with my camera... what a scream!!
It was totally awesome to meet up with someone I actually knew... you really appreciate it after being on your own for almost a month. Although I am never really alone as it's so easy to meet people and just hook up for a couple of days, but a real piece of home in flesh and blood is PRICELESS.
Anyways - more info later, hitting the town in Prague now.
Imagine Hobart show, remove the animals and craft stuff, times the rides by 3, and add about 16 huge beer 'tents' (these are actually massive halls). Add to those tents a progressively inebriated audience to some crazy german band and a whole bunch of beer wenches....... Beer heaven I say. The crowd just gets louder and louder, more beer gets spilled on the ground than actually gets drunk due to all the 'prosting'... Unbelievable atmosphere!!! Can't explain it well enough, you just need to be there.
I'll write a separate post later regarding the shit that happened on Tuesday night, but let's just say I lost EVERYTHING (passport, tickets, Visa.. the works), and spent hours looking for my bag.... Several really lucky things happened the next day which ended up with me having my bag back with everything. The only outstanding issues was the cancelled Visa card = no cash... Luckily I was meeting Craig Wednesday night and he loaned me some to get me through to when my replacement card would arrive.
Wednesday night: met up with Craig and went to meet the Contiki group he was with. Damn, some of those guys were WASTED!!!! They were prosting with all their might... Imagine a Mohammed Ali left hook, add a 1 litre stein of beer and 5 really pissed guys.... there were broken glasses every 5 minutes, and heaps of spilt beer. Janine ended up wearing over a litre for the night!! Hit some of the rollercoasters after a few steins and have them both on movie with my camera... what a scream!!
It was totally awesome to meet up with someone I actually knew... you really appreciate it after being on your own for almost a month. Although I am never really alone as it's so easy to meet people and just hook up for a couple of days, but a real piece of home in flesh and blood is PRICELESS.
Anyways - more info later, hitting the town in Prague now.
posted by Yoda at 23:13
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Beeeeeeeeeeeer...... mmmmm.
*hiccup*
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