And now some good news

[Mojocvh]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries...

[Shaw Tarse]

[Blib]

Any excuse to post this photo.

[anonymous-user]

My 21 year old son left yesterday for Oktoberfest. I'm nervous.........

[anonymous-user]

Ahhh...such mammeries memories

[williamp]

God I love that traditional costumes the girld wear. After a few beers...

[Fer]

garyhun said:

Ahhh...such mammeries memories

It's like the sixties... If you can remember it, perhaps you weren't there.

[Markytop]

The writer for the Telegraph obviously went to the "Say what you see" school of caption writing with those images.

[s3fella]

.....Meh. Oktoberfest is not like it used to be. It's all corporate tents now, the public stuff is ok, but there is not much of it, and it seems like 75% of the people there are company wkers tbh!

I used to go in the 1990's and it was awesome then!

[Wheelrepairit]

s3fella said:

I used to go in the 1990's and it was awesome then!

Snap, happy happy days.

Ps...nice pic

[dcb]

s3fella said:

I used to go in the 1990's and it was awesome then!

+1

I gave up with the Munich Oktoberfest many years ago.
The place is crawling with foreign tourists for the
two weeks its on.

Even the locals don't bother much. They have to
go on quiet times like Tuesday afternoon, just
to get a seat.

Hotel prices double when it's on and the hotels
are still full. What a bunch of sheep.

Intelligent folks avoid the Munich Oktoberfest and
go to the world's 2nd biggest beer fest in Stuttgart.

No tourists, just tens of thousands of Germans
sinking a few litres. Far more civilised, and you
don't get some drunken Ozzie / Kiwi / Yank throwing
up over your shoes after only two beers.

[hollydog]

Blib said:

Any excuse to post this photo.

nice jugs . it had to be said .

[Mr Subtle]

Ive stared at that photo for a full 5 minutes and i still cant see any beer.

[Mojocvh]

dcb said:

s3fella said:

I used to go in the 1990's and it was awesome then!

+1

I gave up with the Munich Oktoberfest many years ago.
The place is crawling with foreign tourists for the
two weeks its on.

Even the locals don't bother much. They have to
go on quiet times like Tuesday afternoon, just
to get a seat.

Hotel prices double when it's on and the hotels
are still full. What a bunch of sheep.

Intelligent folks avoid the Munich Oktoberfest and
go to the world's 2nd biggest beer fest in Stuttgart.

No tourists, just tens of thousands of Germans
sinking a few litres. Far more civilised, and you
don't get some drunken Ozzie / Kiwi / Yank throwing
up over your shoes after only two beers.

sign of the times I suppose.

I last went when there was a West Germany, I'd hoped it hadn't gone the way it has been portrayed above, Real Germans drink slowly but keep on going, rose coloured glasses etc.

[Pesty]

dcb said:

+1

I gave up with the Munich Oktoberfest many years ago.
The place is crawling with foreign tourists for the
two weeks its on.

Those foreingers are very good then. I went three years ago and eveybody on the tents knew all the words to the German drinking songs.

Great atmosphere. Prefer the hoffbrau*(spelling) house personally. I could live in that place

[shirt]

^^yeah, but remember which website you're on

[obob]

A German website obviously, all these bloody foreigners coming to our festivals. Grrrrrrr

[krallicious]

dcb said:

+1

I gave up with the Munich Oktoberfest many years ago.
The place is crawling with foreign tourists for the
two weeks its on.

Even the locals don't bother much. They have to
go on quiet times like Tuesday afternoon, just
to get a seat.

Hotel prices double when it's on and the hotels
are still full. What a bunch of sheep.

Intelligent folks avoid the Munich Oktoberfest and go to Rosenheim or a smaller town in Bayern

No tourists, just tens of thousands of Germans
sinking a few litres. Far more civilised, and you
don't get some drunken Ozzie / Kiwi / Yank throwing
up over your shoes after only two beers.

[anonymous-user]

s3fella said:

I used to go in the 1990's and it was awesome then!

Me too! Great fun.

[dcb]

Pesty said:

Those foreingers are very good then. I went three years ago and eveybody on the tents knew all the words to the German drinking songs.

Wot - all two words ?

Ein Prosit etc

Pesty said:

Great atmosphere. Prefer the hoffbrau*(spelling) house personally. I could live in that place

Hofbrauhaus - quite possibly the world's most famous pub.

I like it that much, I've had a couple of goes at transferring
my residency papers to there, but the locals won't have it ;->

Mind you, I tried out the Hirschgarten the other
week, for the first time in a long time.

Seating for 8,000. 'Nuff said.