Munich: Oktoberfest Photo Diary

with Elise, the birthday girl.

Bucket list fulfilling at Oktoberfest, München.
​A collection of photos taken over 3 days at the festival.

DAY 1

The majority of the day was a washout with the rain beginning to pour down not long after the parade ended. Finding a table became impossible as people crammed inside the halls and as there is a rule, no seat, no service we were pretty keen to find somewhere to park and begin Elise's birthday celebrations. 

Inside the Lowenbrau tent just after the opening ceremony.

Deciding on the Lowenbrau tent we waited inside for the rain to subside, stalking tables and using terrible German to try and order drinks - unsuccessful as we still did not have a table. I managed to spot a tour manager from a previous tour among the crowd, huzzah! Our search was over. Stein time! 

A group of Lads wearing lederhosen from our tour walked in, we all gave up trying for a table inside, decided to brave the rain and cold (buying souvenir jumpers and umbrellas of course), and we went and grabbed a saturated table outside. In hindsight, we should have done this a lot sooner, although, close to soaked, because there was no one outside at first the barmaid arrived within seconds. Round 2!

Happy - with a beer (finally) in hand and an umbrella in the other.

Our outfits were a little short. However, I at least found some comfort in the fact that a lot of other Aussie girls had also done little to no research and gone the same route. It was easy to play 'spot the Australian'. Our choice of attire had us accost by a German TV crew earlier in the day during the opening parade, I have no idea who they were or what they were saying, but as the camera panned up and down, the crowd collectively gasped "ooh", and we were left red-faced.
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- Note to self: a demure, knee-length dress is appropriate for next time.

The Lads.

One very stale pretzel.

Random face-painting hilarity. It didn't last long but it was pretty funny watching them try to remove it.

The Pschorr-Bräurosl tent.

The Lowenbrau tent/ festhalle.

Augustiner festhalle.

Spatenbrau haus.

The Hippodrom.

Oktoberfest gingerbreads.

Gingerbreads.

Chocolates & keychains.

The crowd on Opending Day.

DAY 2

A stop off at the beer halls on our way back from an amazing dinner at the Munich Hoffbrauhaus.

The fairground ferris wheel.

I don't know what this is (a donut?) but it tasted AMAZING!!

Sooooo good!!

Fairground.

Fairground.

DAY 3

Our last day in Munich - Walking through the festival on our way to catch a train into Munich for lunch.

Bratwurst pitstop.

The Löwenbräu lion.

Jägerbombsss.

When you have 30 minutes before your bus leaves to take you back to London, and there's no way you're going to get a table in a beer hall, where else do you head for final drinks but the kiosk bars serving liquor in the centre of the family fairground. If only we knew these magical and oddly located, little bars existed on day 1. It pays to walk around a festival instead of just heading straight for the beer halls. 

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