Made a relatively late decision to head to Oktoberfest for a 4 day weekend... arrived on a Saturday.. left on a Tuesday... Flew Easyjet into Munich (ended up catching up with my cousin Michael in town which was an added bonus) then stayed at Camping Thalkirchen. We had booked through Festival Tours, which is a reasonable deal... £99 each for the 3 nights, camping and included all shuttles to and from the Festival and they ran tours out to Dachau Concentration Camp and to Andechs Monastery.Though it was September, it got very, very cold at night... and that was really the only dampener on the whole weekend!
We did their tour out to Dachau (very moving) and Andechs Monastery (which was more about the beer they brewed there and the Pork Knuckle than the Monastery!) which was a great day out.
So Monday was our first day at the Festival... really enjoyed it actually.... lots of drinking with random people and all in all a really great day out! Spent most of the day in the Lowenbrau tent.. went on a couple of rides... roller coasters and dodgems are way more fun after a couple of steins!
Back into the Festival the next day... tried as many tents as we could [we had our backpacks with us and some of them wouldn't let us in :( ]... and actually managed to venture into 0Munich itself as well...and had a good look around town (including the permanent HB Beer Hall!.All in all a great weekend - to be honest a lot more fun than I had expected!
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