One Year

It´s been one year since I left Australia the second time. It doesn´t really seem that long ago though...

Oktoberfest

I now this is a bit late but I will write a little about it anyway. Oktoberfest was really cool, I bought Lederhosen (the leather pants) so I could dress up and fit in, at least a bit, with the locals.

 

My brother Tim and one of his friends came for the first weekend. We got up really early and went in so we could line up for a table. We were lucky and got a good table but then we had to wait four hours until the festival started. We were prepared and had brought breakfast with us so we sat at our table, playing games and eating waiting for it to start.

 

I also met up with Nathan, Wog and Tracy who are the people I went to Oktoberfest with last year. They were driving around Europe for 3 months and it was good to see them again.

 

We spent all day at the Löwenbräu tent (same as the pub in the Rocks in Sydney) because Mona and Mary know the waitress there. Once the tent closed we went on a few rides at the site, the dodgem cars were really fun!

 

The next day we went into town to see the opening parade (which is on the second day for some reason). And then we went back to Wiesn (what the locals call Oktoberfest). This time we spent a bit of time outside looking around at the different tents and stalls that were there.

 

Later in the week, after Tim had left I met up with Bernadette (from Sydney Water) and Steve. We caught up on all the stuff that happened at Sydney Water since I left and had a good afternoon in one of the tents.

 

I went once more in the last week of the festival (it goes over three weekends), by then the place was a bit dirty and smelly but it was still good fun. I was with Mona and Mary and we went to some of the more German tents where there weren´t so many tourists.

Photos

I´ve just put up a whole heap of photos. There are four new albums and I also added new photos to the album called "München, yet again".

 

I hope you enjoy them!