Munich Oktoberfest 2007

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First night we did a little shopping in the main area of Munich and checked out Marienplatz, Glockenspiel and central Munich. We were both fairly impressed with how well organised Munich was, but I guess that's to be expected out of the Germans. For dinner on our first night, we went to a genuine small little beer hall for dinner and damo had bratwurst and sauerkraut and a couple of weißbier. After this we wandered back to our hostel accommodation (AO Hostels) which was brilliant - anyone heading to Munich - this is a GREAT cheap place to stay.



The next day we woke up and headed up to the Glockenspiel to meet up with Mike's Bike Tours to head off for our tour of Munich. There was a heap of people, and we were separated into 2 groups. Nik was clever enough to realise that there was a heap of raucous people all together and going into one group - we joined in with them. The people were a bunch of Texans that had flown over for Oktoberfest, and they were all top shelf people. We went cycling around Munich and were shown many cool things. We went and had lunch in a Chinese Beergarden in the middle of the Englisher Garten Steve-O tour guide getting in fight, checking out the Englisher Garten, Nudist Meadow, Stationary Wave, piss up afterwards with Texans at the Hofbrauhaus Beer Hall til laaaate.


Woke up late, moved accommodation from A&O Hostel to Jaegers. Did a bit of shopping for Lederhosen etc. Can't remember what we did that night. Probably not much as we wanted to get to bed early so we could get up early the next day. Didn't get much sleep at the new hostel, so woke up a bit late, and met up with Jason and Steph and the rest of the fighter pilots at the Hofbrauhaus beer tent at the Oktoberfest. Stayed there til about 10pm, and ran into the Texans again, and also Eion and Paul.



Woke up late. headed back to Oktoberfest later in the day (about 8pm) and met up with the fighter pilots again (less Jason and Steph, and much phone confusion involved). Ended up staying til closing time at the Paulaner tent, and met up with a local and got chatting to him and then headed into central munich to some nightclub that was at a hotel and stayed there until about 2.30am. Walked home, and met up with a bloke from Boston in the lobby of the hotel and we got chatting to him and we ended up making it to bed at about 5am.



Wrecked for all the next day. Woke up about 2pm and went and got food, and made our way back to the O-fest, but this time we were both fairly keen to give the grog a bit of a swerve. We went on a few rides (Ferris Wheel, Hession mat down a slippery slide, Wildemaus Rollercoaster), and bought a few souvenirs and generally just checked out the carnival. This was our last night, but we were both rocking a fairly bad hangover from the night before, so we gave the grog a miss, but still ended up meeting up with Eion and Paul at the Hofbrauhaus tent again. We stayed with them until closing time, made our way home and packed as we were to fly out the next day.