Prost!
Wow. This place is crazy good. I went to check out the grounds yesterday and at an outside seating cafe got myself a breakfast of apfelstrudel and coffee. And I watched the show go by. So much lederhosen and different kinds too. And of course the dirndl´s. So many lovely Frauleins. After I got my fill of people-watching, I walked around the grounds of Oktoberfest and at around 12:30 decided to enter the Hofbraeuhaus for my first litre. Maybe 2. I lost count after 4. I sat at a table with 4 lovely German girls and there was lots of good conversation, singing along with the oompah band (everyone loved it when they sang "Be my, be my little baby, be my baby now...!), and mass drunkenness. The Italians sitting next to us were done by 6. And I had read that the Italians were very touchy-feely with the ladies and I can confirm that yes, they certainly are. That would not fly in the States. For snacks I got a bag of chocolate-covered almonds which I shared with the table. For dinner it was a small roasted chicken. Pretty basic but very good and certainly needed. I think today I´ll get one of those giant pretzels. Also, I woke up in my hotel room this morning with a stein in my bag, courtesy of one of my German friends. Hope it doesn´t break over the next 2 weeks!
As far as pictures go I think those will have to wait until I get to La-Chaux-de-Fonds. This computer is embedded in the table with no port access. Right now I am off to the train station to buy my ticket to Salzburg tomorrow. I´ll get some brunch, walk around, and then it´s to the tents!
Tschau!
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Just got back from the Lowenbrau tent and sat with a group of German fellows. I only had one litre this time because I wanted to come back, change and then head out again. At the train station today I sort of figured out how to get my ticket to Salzburg: I can buy it tomorrow and trians to Austria depart every hour or so. The only thing I wasn´t sure of was "Means of Transport: IC, ICE-EC, or no ICE-EC. Ooookay. I´ll ask someone at the Hippodrom tent where I am headed next. On the way back from the train station I stopped at a tiny cafe and had Wurstsemmel and MezzoMix for lunch. Wurstsemmel is sliced meat with cucumber, lettuce, cheddar cheese and butter on a kaiser roll. MezzoMix is like Orange Crush but darker. But then I noticed Leberkassemmel: it´s a loaf of pork in a warming...box...and with spicy mustard again on a kaiser roll I was told "it is a very Bavarian sandwich". I got that to go.
Okay, I´m off to the grounds again. Oh, polizei presence is everywhere: certain roads are blocked off, there´s a cruiser at every corner and the polizei walk around the grounds with an Uzi at their side. It´s good to see.
Prost!
2;00 local time...am
brost, al vetisvein, yah and dah....
okay, I warned you and and here it is! alf verizhein! speckenzien dutch or enlansh, mo fo! foo!
Went to the tent and sat with 2 Germans and 4 (don´t call me Austrians) Austrailians who were very lovely. Ah! We went on a fe rides and yeah ater that, not so much in remembrance.....
Okay to finish up Munich, I had a blast with my new friends, Manuel, Kirsten, Mark, Callie, Joan and Rebecca. They got me on a 'swing ride' where 2 seats are together attched to the center pole by chains and you are lifted up and then it swings you around high in the air. Nice. I refused to go on the freefall though. After all this we went back to the tents. Manuel has yet to email me pictures of our time in the tents so hopefully those will come soon!
