Beer, beer and more beer

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We have busy for the last two days drinking beer! Largely due to Oktoberfest.

Munich is a great city with a lot of interesting places and a very efficient, clean subway system. It has taken us only a few minutes to get to a beer garden or Oktoberfest. The beer is amazingly good, cold and cheap!

Buffie has an alergic reaction to some bug bite and the only thing that is helping the pain is beer, so we are drinking and siteseeing!

We visited at least 3 beer gardens and as two cute girls we were constantly being offered drinks or to show our chest! Yes, as many of the folks are drinking and they want to see women's breasts. There are lots of international folks and a fair number of Americans.

Hofrahaus was our first beer garden and it was a roudy, drinking festival at 3 in the afternoon. The food is great, but the beer is even better. The funny thing is that the crowd was singing the song, YMCA, but with German words instead of the English. Very interesting.

After our first litre of beer it was off to walk around again or more likely...to sober up, then head out again.

On Friday, we started drinking about 10AM and then decided to see more of the city. We went to the BMW factory tour, which was really interesting and makes me want to buy a BMW. Now, we are heading out with some cute, British guys we met in the lobby for more festivities at Oktoberfest.

Tomorrow, we decided to give our liver a break and we are heading off to Austria for the day. I wish the US had a train system as efficient and great as the Europeans do. This side trip is not planned, but thought since it is an hour and a half away, we should get another stamp in our passports.

I am sure I will write more later...

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Photos

Oktoberfest Welcome
Opening gate of Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest Welcome Signage
Welcome to 2008 Oktoberfest

Beer Tent 1
The first of many beer tents we visited on Thursday

Another beer tent
At this point, not sure which beer tent this was...

Hofprahaus
Our first of many, many litres of beer on our trip!

Paulsner house
The Paulsner house stop on our beer tour of Munich

Comments

[Shelly]

Love it
Trisha, Love that you are going to get to Austria. Hope you get to see Saltzberg..truely amazing ..Vienna train system is great as well. Hyatt there has excellent service and is right across the street from a lovely park. Hope you are having fun. Missing talking with you. Lots has happened. But not as much as to you. Love ya and miss ya. Shelly

[Aunt Janet]

Enjoying your pictures
Just a note to let you know we are enjoying you pictures of your trip. Looks like your having a great time.Oktoberfest looks fun and beautiful. Keep checking out all the new site and guys. Enjoy be careful and send more when you get a chance. Love Aunt Janet and Uncle Tom