Munich: Oktoberfest Photo Diary

29/9/2015

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Drinking beer without a care. - Tily Travels.

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.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Crowds of people inside the Lowenbrau tent.

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!

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Beer in one hand, Umbrella in the other.

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

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Image of me in my dirndl drinking Lowenbrau.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Elise in her dirndl drinking beer at Lowenbrau.

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.

- Note to self: a demure, knee-length dress is appropriate for next time.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - The guys in their lederhosen.

The Lads.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Trying to eat the stalest pretzel in the world.

One very stale pretzel.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - The lad's get their faces painted.

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

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Tily Travels at the Lowenbrau tent.

The Pschorr-Bräurosl tent.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Te Lowenbrau tent.

The Lowenbrau tent/ festhalle.

Augustiner festhalle.

Spatenbrau haus.

The Hippodrom.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Oktoberfest souvenirs.

Oktoberfest gingerbreads.

Gingerbreads.

Chocolates & keychains.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Oktoberfest crowds on opening day.

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.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - German food.

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

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Eating the german food.

Sooooo good!!

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Giving a thumbs up outside the Lowenbrau tent.

Fairground.

DAY 3

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Underneath the Welcome to Oktoberfest sign.

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

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Elise eating a bratwurst.

Bratwurst pitstop.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - The Lowenbrau lion.

The Löwenbräu lion.

Oktoberfest Munich Photo Diary - Jägerbombs with Elise.

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.