At the parade |
Entering the wiesen |
At the wiesen by the brewery horses |
Magdalena and Johanna with the horses |
Johanna with brewery wagon |
brewery horseman |
brewery horses |
brewery horse and finery |
Statute Bavaria |
dirndl wearer |
first beer at the Wiesen |
Pretzel vender |
pretzel eater |
another pretzel eater |
maidens wearing their dirndls |
Susanne and Christoph |
Magdalena and Mac |
The gang |
Diana and Susanne showing their dirndls |
At the Augustiner biergarten off the Oktoberfest venue |
Puke meadows at the wiesen. Where people that ate too drunk can come and sleep it off. |
More beer |
Tourists with maidkins |
Dirndl maidkins |
More beer and a 2 half chickens |
Enjoying a beer |
Tourists enjoying biergarten |
Magdalena and Heini |
End of the evening catching the ubahn |
The oktoberfest is the worlds largest beer fest. The 16 day event has 6,000,000 visitors and they consume 1.5 million gallons of beer. It was started in 1810 to celebrate the Oct 12th marriage of Ludwig I to Saxon-hildburghausen princess Therse. It was moved to Sept. later to have better weather. This year they broke the 9 euro cost for a litre of beer. It's expensive but everybody seems to have a good time.
After the parade we walked toward the wiesen and heard the cannons go off opening the fest. The Mayor of Munich taps the first keg and they shoot a cannon and people start running to the beer tents to get a seat. I wouldn't doubt that there was 500,000 people visit the place today.
We walked thru the wiesen to a "traditional beer tent" which is supposedly more sedate then the 11 other tents. More family oriented but it looked like they took their drinking just as seriously as everywhere else. There were 4 of us to start, but later 3 more showed up. We stayed there till about 4 and then went to an off site beergarden called Augustiner, met Heini and proceded to drink more beer and eat more chickens. At dark we headed to Christoph and Susanne house for a little wine to top off the evening. After that we got on the ubahn and headed home about midnite.
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