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By LaurenItaly
October 9th 2008

Prost! OKTOBERFEST!

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Inside Lowenbrau Tent
PARTY!

What a weekend, took a night train up to Munich with my roommate and that was an experience in itself. We arrived in Munich at 8am and we beyond excited to see a Starbucks for the first time in over a month! (these are the little things you miss from America) So of course we loaded up on lattes and cream cheese bagels. We met up with some of our friends from our language class in Florence that are in Mexico and arrived in Germany a day earlier, put our bags in a train locker, brushed our teeth in the station [View Full Entry]

By Jengonda
October 8th 2008

Oktoberfest Preview

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Internet access and spare time have proven difficult to come by over the past week. Now that I am reconnected, many posts will be forthcoming. Since I know you are anxiously awaiting to hear about Oktoberfest. Here is a little preview!! [View Full Entry]

By Jade00
October 8th 2008

Prost, Prost, Prost!

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money exchanging on the border of the Czech Republic and Germany
Changing czech krowns back to euros

So after getting on the bus at 8am Sunday morning, we stopped off in Munich for OKTOBERFEST! It was AMAZING! I have never been at a bigger fair, I will certainly say that. I could not believe how many people were there. All the Germans were dressed in their traditional clothes (which was wildly entertaining) and there was just food and drinks eeeverywhere! We got there and just went to get bratwurst and drink some beers in the Hofbrau tent. It was a little overwhelming at first when you walked into the tent because there were just so many people there [View Full Entry]

I am definitely missing the fall foliage

By Wkndtraveler
October 8th 2008

Oktoberfest and of course the beer!

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Waitress
She could have carried more that 4 steins to us!

I hope to capture all of the exciting things and sites of my experience at the 2008 Oktoberfest in Germany. It is one of the best festivals - hands down. There is nothing like it in the States to compare, but hopefully for my family and friends reading this you will gain some additional insight. The "Oktoberfest" occurs for 16 days every year in Munich, Germany. It starts out on the third to last Saturday of the month of September and finishes on the first Sunday in October. Several years ago, the organizers moved it up to start in September for [View Full Entry]

By Emily Utschig
October 7th 2008

OKTOBERFEST 2008

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I´m going to start writing the Oktoberfest blog whenever I get a chance. SO, it started off with getting everything together Thursday morning, skipping classes for my 110 PM flight. I thought I was supposed to leave my house at 11, but apparently I misheard and was supposed to be at the airport around 11... oh well! So i took a cab for 20 euros but it was better in the long run cause I was carrying 2 carryons, a big sleeping back and a 15 pound tent. ole! Got to the airpot and waited for my flight for about an [View Full Entry]

By Mitch and Dorina
October 7th 2008

Bier ist gut ja!

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New Town Hall
at night

Munich. We took a night train from Berlin to Munich and arrived at the main train station a little after six in the morning. We had our own sleeper cabin with a shower and toilet, but the rocking and swaying of the train wasn’t much comfort and we ended up with very little sleep again. The night before we were graced with the presence of one stringy, hairy Italian man named Roberto during our last night in Berlin, who had two distinct characteristics - the first being that he would casually drop down to his under dacks or birthday suit in [View Full Entry]

Frauenkirche (Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady)

By Mitch and Dorina
October 7th 2008

The Terrible Tradegy that is 'NO CAMERA' at Oktoberfest

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Much to our and i am sure everybody elses dismay we did not take a camera to Oktoberfest. We did have our phone camera and are still trying to get the pictures of the memory card onto the PC. This blog is coming a little out of order in our travels (i.e after Austrian blogs) but is coming non the less. A sneak peak - Dorina drank a whole stein [View Full Entry]

By a10scourt
October 6th 2008

Munich

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I need to find my Oktoberfest photos still [View Full Entry]

By alia142
October 6th 2008

A few days in Munich

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The one on the left is my Israeli friend; the one on the right is my German friend.

Munich was great. As soon as I stepped off the plane and felt the fall air that I’m so accustomed to in mid-September, I was smiling pretty much non-stop. I was only there for a weekend. It might sound crazy that I would fly to Germany just for two and a half days, but honestly, I don’t know if I would have stayed sane if I didn’t have that weekend away. September was a rough month getting adjusted here, and going to a place where I understood people and where I was more familiar with was much-needed. There were two people [View Full Entry]

By Bentrider
October 6th 2008

Well Into Germany

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Our humble home

Sunday, October 05, 2008 We have had only spotty internet access because of all the low bridges we have to go under. They have to clear the top deck of everything and lower all the antennas. Since the internet connection to the ship is wireless, we have no connection when the antennas are down. This will go out sometime. The ship is very comfortable and brand new. It entered service April of this year. Almost all cabins have large sliding glass doors that let in lots of air and frame the passing countryside. Forward are the lounge on the top deck [View Full Entry]

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