Mayhem in Munich
I've just been on a trip, and what a fine journey it has been. I'm in the mood to start with the last place I visited, which was Munich. In Italy last year I made friends with a lovely German called Mel who I then got fake-engaged to. A year later, we needed an engagement party. By no coincidence, when I visited her in Munich it was the time of the Oktoberfest. What could I expect? I had heard it was the largest beer festival in the world, and that, in all likelihood, it would get out of hand. It sounded great, so I slipped into some Lederhosen and we headed to Theresienwiese to find out. Like a pair of happy Bavarians As we entered, I could see that the rumours about the size are true- the area that holds the festival is 420,000 sq. meters. The Hacker Brewery tent we were headed for could contain 6,900 people inside and 2,400 outside. Needless to say that tent was just one of many huge placed to hang...