Oktoberfest! Wow it was one of the
Most incredible experiences! It was beyond what I expected, I met some amazing people, drank way too much beer, ate too much meat and made some memories I'll never forget.

So Oktoberfest is set in a massive park, made up of 14 beer hall tents that house up to ten thousand people in the biggest, there are roller coaster rides, carnival stalls, food venders and tens of thousands of people spread out over the park. The beer halls are huge and it's an incredible sight to walk into one. The hall is lined with big wooden tables and a stage with a traditional German band in the centre, the tables are lined with locals and tourists so many of them that you can hardly move. Everyone is eating plates of meat and every single person has a liter of beer in hand. To get a beer you have to be seated and wait for a beer wench to serve you. Beers cost roughly 9 euro but you have to tip if you want your wench returning!

The atmosphere is insane, everyone sings and sways, there are people standing on tables and the band plays loudly in the back round. The band often plays the cheers anthem, it's a song in German which all of the tourists just try to sing along with, we raise our steins in the air screaming the wrong lyrics and then cheers any one in reaching distance splashing beer all over our selves and everyone else. A few times our cheering ended in smashed steins or soaking wet dirndls.

There is a tent where most Australians head, it's the most roudy and traditionally gets really messy. It defiantly delivered this year! By about 2 pm everyone is standing on tables and chairs, singing along with the band, skulling and drinking way to fast. Every now and then someone will jump up on the table and capture crowds attention and then skull a full liter with thousands of people cheering and clapping! Girls got the loudest applause, I saw one guy down two liters one after the other and then throw it straight back up! Things defiantly get messy in that tent.

I had my friend Joel with me that I met working in Rimini! I'm so glad I had such a good friend with me, we had an awsome time together along with lots of people I'd met along the way and just in the tents at the festival. The first two nights I had organize some last minute accommodation a t a temporary hostel! It just consisted of a few Marques packed with beds, a little bar and some portable toilets! It was cold but a cheap alternative to the ridiculous amount you'd pay for last minute hostels.

After the first two nights we headed out to the busabout camp site that we had organized, Joel and I had a tent to ourselves out there and we stole some little blankets from the first hostel to keep us warm. It was still freezing and we slept in every price of clothing we owned and at one stage even slept on one blow up matress and under the other!

I got dressed up in a purple dirndl that maddie a girl I met in Switzerland gave to me! She saved me more than 80 euros and I was stoked that I got to get in the spirit of the festival, everyone looks so great dressed up!

One of the days I took Joel, Megan (a girl I met in San seb) and Emily (Joel's girl of the moment) to the Augustine beer restaurant, I had been taken there last time I was in Munich with the busabout group. It was one of my favorite nights in Europe and I had loved the traditional atmosphere and food there. They got to try the famous pork knuckle that I had been craving ever since my first visit and soak up some more German culture away from the tourists at Oktoberfest.

I loved it at the festival I would easily go back again! Now I sit on a bus heading to Paris. I'm looking forward to a real bed and a good shower! Camping was fun, but I'm in need of some creature comforts!