OKTOBERFEST-ING IN SEPTEMBER
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I know, I know, it's a little confusing, but I have my facts straight. Oktoberfest does not actually take place in October. It is in September. Every year. It has something to do with wanting to drink up all the stocks of old beer to make room for the new brew to be made after the harvest. How they got any harvesting done with all that beer in their bellies, well who knows...and why don't they just make less beer next time? Oh wait, silly question.
Anywhooo, another restful bus ride, we arrive in Munich for a day and a half of exploration. Munich offers an unusual mix of the sombre and playful and it's an emotional up and down for us here. We tour the Dachau Concentration Camp and hit up a beer hall. When my body starts playing tricks with a little mid-trip laryngitis, I stay back at the hotel and Jason heads off to make some friends in a beer tour ending at the Oktoberfest grounds. There's gotta be some libation around here to cure what ails me. |