Oompah!

This year it was time for the Oktoberfest at Munich. I haven't been there before. As Sabine has a friend who lives in Munich we had free lodging. We went there from Thursday to Tuesday.

The first days we did some sighseeing as well as shopping. Munich is really beautiful. On Monday we've been to the Oktoberfest. Sabine's friend checked a box in a tent. You have to buy a lot of vouchers to get a place in a box. Therefore we started with a Bavarian 'Brotzeit' and during the evening I had to drink 6 jugs of beer (because of the vouchers :-) ). Luckily the tents had to close at 11 pm and after a ride with a rollercoaster it was time to go to bed (because of the beers).

The Oktoberfest is really funny but not every year.

circus, circus

My firm offered a tent show for free. They call it family day.

The big top was set at the premises and in-house catering was offered at an extra tent. Three shows were offered on Friday and Saturday. Therefore I catched Sabine and we spent the afternoon with clowns, artists and delicious food.

We did not visit the petting zoo (we felt a little bit to old). It was a nice show but not worldshaking.

potato festival

Is it worth to do a trip to the potatoe festival at Stockerau? It definitely is. We headed there by train and the weather conditions weren't that bad. At the pavilion we met with Doris and KW but not for long, as KW wasn't in good conditions (due to his birthday celebration the night before :-) ). A wide culinary range was offered and we stayed at the so-called 'wine quarter' for a long time. Unfortunately we only saw the rear lights of the last train back to Vienna. #!?+$ For that reason we had to spend a night at the tower lodge. Overall a nice festival.

Waldviertel pur

Monday to Wednesday the 'Waldviertel pur' festival took place at the Viennese Heldenplatz. Due to the bad weather conditions we went there only on Wednesday afternoon. As always the culinary range was quite good and we tried a lot of different meals. Also hemp products were offered. At 10 pm the booths closed and we changed our location to a small pub in the first district. Nice evening.