Oktoberfest

On Friday (okay, Freitag) I went back to the school to talk to an English class (of ~16 year olds) about Australia and myself. They asked me questions, such as “do you go surfing?” which seems to be the stereotypical image in Germany of what young people do in Australia. Of course the answer was no, which surprised them all a little. Someone also asked if a snake had ever bitten me. :)

On the way home from school with Daniel’s sister Lisa, we visited a Bäckerei (bakery) at a monastery. That was also quite interesting.

In the afternoon we left for Munich to do some geocaching. We ran into some other geocahers at one of the first caches we did. Then of course we went off to Oktoberfest. I had heard that Australians weren’t too welcome there due to roudy drunken behaviour, though even if the police man checking my bag (there had been heightened security alerts this year) was pleased to be talking to an Australian. We had a large mug of beer and had a bit of conversation with other people at our table, mostly germans. We were even given a free chicken (from a voucher) from some other people at our table). Later on I tried out some rides, though not cheap, they were probably than any ride I’ve done in Australia. By that time we were running short on time and I had just about blown my budget for the night!

Later on I decided to buy a tshirt. Though first of all we stopped at a dodgy unofficial merchandise stand. The woman told me that the tshirt on display was the last one they had of that style. When I offered her half the price tag amount. She just about had a fit and told us she’d go find some others. We walked away because she had obviously been lying to us. I was able to get an official tshirt anyway.

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