Friends Without Borders

Munich ! I'm here with jp for the oktoberfest for the next couple of days. Checked into Wombats hostel, rather pricey cos its the tourist season.... Shared a room with 3 american chicks and 2 aussie guys. a few of them were wasted already, abt abt 5pm in the afternoon. hah. jp and me didn't waste much time, and we headed down to the fest which was abt 10 mins away

oktoberfest runs from 10am to 10pm last order, and there were about 14 huge tentages setup for the event. It had already one on for 2 weeks, and we already missed the best part of the parades and festivities. still, there was more to catch. Each tentage could hold up to 7000 pple, and I think that at night more are actually packed in heh. So, bring a drinking festival, each of the tents were serving some specialty german beer. and they came in 1 litre jugs. yep 1 litre. thats 3 cans. brands like paulaner, hofbrau, ratzinger etc... and food. wow yummy. All the food was meat meat meat. chicken, lamb, pork, fish ,beef whatever you want its there.

the best part of oktoberfest are the singalong at night. every tentage is beautifully laced with traditional bavarian decorations, while at least 50% of the pple attending the oktoberfest wore the traditional bavarian dresses.... guys with suspenders, shorts, long socks and girls who wore super low cut dresses and killer ponytails heh. then every tent has a big band setup which plays many german folk songs and even contemporary classics like beatles, robbie williams, queen (!!!), AC/DC and what not. and everyone, from 8 to 80 yrs old would be standing on their benches, singing along, cheering every 10 mins to a beer song. and most importantly, it was truly friends without borders. I made friends with americans, aussies, south africans, swedes, germans, indians, italians, dutch... just not much asians, tho we kept getting mistaken for japs. I even met James Gomez's nephew at oktoberfest. Like, what are the chances of that? he's a nice chap heh. So everyone just drank and cheered, regardless of where you came from. Its really chaotic yet somehow everyone is like connected at the same time. haha.

oh and I swore I saw a mum fed her 3yr old kid beer. and the kid was walking drunkedly haha. The germans really train from young.

ok enough of talk here are the pics n vids

Welcome to oktoberfest

Outside a tent


the 1 litre jugs of bavarian brew


dinner time @ hippodrom. we sat outside cos inside was packed.

german sausages


amazing crowd during dinner


one of the brauhaus at 9am


3 hrs later


the craziest beer gorging bunch. See if you can pick out Gomez heh


the ships a stage


one of the many deco


random guy on the pee queue, from ireland


my fav meal. lamb fillet with superb potatoes and soup tt tastes like tomyam with apple strudel

some of the mates


drink until some started stripping. I can't put on the other photos haha.

we literally cheered till the glass broke

Hah. It was really really great.

This is a clip of the band playing We Are the Champions. Pls pardon my half high state and singing haha. And its kinda shaky cos the bench I was on also got other pple jumping on it hah.





Anyways on the last day we went walking around Munich and checked out the musuem, which was gigantic and was having some da vinci gallery. rather cheap to go into musuems esp for students. Also, we checked out the Glockenspiel, which is nothing more than a life sized music box up on some cathedral at Marienplatz.

Some pics of Munich. This is the Glockenspiel, where the bell tolls all around the churches in munich at noon
Architecture in Munich. The Roman influence is very obvious.

Went to Salzburg for a day after Munich. Small town, but the countryside is absolutely beautiful. Shot from a train... wouldn't this be a nice place to retire? heh

Back in London now !