Oktoberfest

Last weekend I went to Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany with a bunch of colleagues. From what I can tell, Oktoberfest is the celebration of beer and that's what we did - celebrate beer. On Friday night, after checking into the hotel, we went to the Hofbrau house to kick off the celebration. We enjoyed some liter beers and some traditional German food (I had a big pretzel). After the Hofbrau house we went to a club to meet up with the rest of the group. It was a great deal, 10 euro cover with 1 euro drinks.

The next day was the first day of Oktoberfest, so we headed down to the fair grounds. We had a table reserved in one of the tents from noon to three. We had a really nice big meal and liter beers and then headed off to the party in one of the larger tents. We had our fair share of beer by about seven or eight o'clock and headed back to the hotel but not to our rooms... the hotel bar was as far as we made it. We stayed drinking in the hotel bar until about midnight and then called it quits.

On Sunday, we took it a bit easier, checked out of the hotel, and walked around Munich. We had lunch in a very nice old German restaurant and then continued to roam the streets of the city centre. After seeing a couple cathedrals and squares we decided to have a walk through the park. Along our way through the park, we saw some surfers and naked people to wrap up a very productive day. Then it was back to the beautiful weather Leeds had to offer (65 degrees for the high of the week, cloudy and rainy).

Pictures of the whole weekend are available here. I'm in the U.S. this weekend and then on to Rome!