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Our crew in Munich: Elizabeth, Alice, Roger, and me (james is in the picture below)

Because of a Czech holiday, my friends and I found ourselves with a long weekend at the end of September. So what did we do? We headed off to Munich to experience the world famous "Oktoberfest" for ourselves. We stayed with my friend Roger, an American who I met during our CELTA training in Prague.

It was a great weekend. Oktoberfest is basically an enourmous fair. There are tons of booths set up selling all kinds of food-- sausage, cheeses, breads, chocolate covered fruit, nuts, etc. There's also tons of rides-- rollercoasters, log rides, carousels, etc. And of course, there is the beer. All the big German brewers are represented, each one having it's own tent. You basically pick the tent you want to get in, (hopefully) find a seat and have one of the German ladies bring you a beer.

As you can see by the pictures, we had a great time experiencing the German culture, both and Oktoberfest and in Munich.


The front of the Spaten beer "tent."

Inside of the Hoffbrau beer tent. Most of these tents hold around 5000 people. Crazy.

I was excited.

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