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Now You Have Me Jealous
Here I am trying to maintain my focus on building, digging and becoming more responsible and you sneak up with a great post on the Oktoberfest. Ruined I am. Thanks for this one. We will have to make sure we get to Germany at the appropriate time one day.

What fun! Glad you guys got in despite not having reservations. All the Germans I know are super-friendly and know how to have a good time, sounds like you met more like them. p.s. great Cheers quote at the end. ;]

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Germany
Such fun reading about your Germany visit. I lived in Germany (Bavaria) for 2 years in the sixties and was there for 2 Oktoberfests. Your descriptions and pictures brought back many memories. Oktoberfest is all about FUN! I lived in a town named Bad Windsheim which is about 20 kilometers from Rothenberg aub der Tauber and during the two years visited many Bavarian towns so I knew that area pretty well. Scott and I visited there about 10 years ago and found changes, of course, but not the drastic changes you found in Berlin. Looking forward to your next blog. We just got back from Sicily night before last and had a wonderful visit. The Roman and Greek ruins there are amazingly well preserved, as good as many we've seen in Greece and other parts of Italy and the people were wonderful. An added bonus which we hadn't planned on in Palermo... we had a chance to see the opera Madam Butterfly on it's last performance in the Palermo Opera House, Teatro Massimo (built in 1897ish)on the night before we left. Neither of us is an opera buff but couldn't pass up the chance to see one in one of the grand old european opera houses. I strongly recommend Sicily....we saw all the expected things, Taormina, Siracusa, Segesta etc. but also stayed in a town named Cefalu which isn't on the tourist radar in a big way (hotels and restaurants are fine but no hoards of cruisers) which I would suggest going to when you do Sicily. Too many things to go into now but when you get Sicily on an itinerary I'll make other suggestions.

Ohh you lucky, lucky things....
Now I am seriously suffering from pangs of jealousy! The Oktoberfest always serves up my absolute favourite tipple, Spaten Munchen! What I'd do for a few bottles now. Looks like you had an absolute blast :D

Potsdamn? Come on, Potsdam isn't that bad. Gotta keep that one in mind, though... ;) Nice to read how much you enjoyed Berlin. To me, it's the centre of the universe, and probably the only city in Germany I'd want to live in. It's also pretty much the cheapest city in Germany, although times are changing and prices are skyrocketing, especially for accomodation. Cheers, Jens

Fabulous
we always wanted to do this and even though we have family in Bavaria we never have;-( looks like a blast!!! enjoy, B&T

DRINKING IN THE VIEW
Visiting beautiful cities & towns, serene views...yet other places that remind one that only 60 years ago...it was a very very different. Now seems a great time to visit.

tea house
The tea house was destroyed and the Berghof (his main house) .You meant the Kehlsteinhaus (referred by GIs as eagles nest). Hitler attended the eagles nest only one time (for marriage of eva braun's sister) because of vertigo.