Once again I packed my bags for Oktoberfest, Europe's Premier Beer Festival in Munich, Germany. I had learnt my lesson after last year's adventure and flew direct to Munich, as enticing as it sounds I did not want to endure another 16 hour bus ride from Londontown. As my travel companions for this trip and I are high rollers now we also decided to stay in a hostel instead of camping this time round, so that when it rained our possessions stayed nice and dry. I ...

Guten tag to Oktoberfest Munich & to Europe's Premier Beer Festival! 17 days, 6.5 million litres of beer, nearly 7 million visitors. If you do the maths you'll see that this year, 2011, is the 201st year since it all began. During that time, the event has only been cancelled 24 times. The Bavarian beer is brewed especially for Oktoberfest and has no perservatives, the word on the street is that you do not get hangovers from it but I can well and truely confir...