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I spent a few days in Munich for Oktoberfest. I’m not entirely sure I would recommend it - especially to someone traveling alone on a budget - but I did enjoy walking around the fairground at night taking pictures and dodging all the drunken people. The grounds containing the large brewing tents (where beer and traditional German food are served) is also filled with rides, games, stands selling sausages and souvenirs, and gingerbread stands! The gingerbread looked delicious, thick and brown with cute German sayings frosted on (my favorite was “My Frog.”)
Oktoberfest Beer
Oktoberfest Tent
Oktoberfest Horses
posting from United StatesNovember 5th, 2008 8:54 am
Holy, holy, holy… will you look at those beer mugs! I can imagine myself at the table with you in front of a deliciouse dark beer. Ahhhh….
posting from United StatesNovember 5th, 2008 8:55 am
correction…delicious…
posting from United StatesNovember 5th, 2008 5:17 pm
Maybe after a few giant steins of beer, the gingerbread will taste better : )
posting from United StatesNovember 5th, 2008 8:13 pm
omg!!! i never cared for the “Real German!” gingerbread (Lebkuchen?) that we got in my family when i was little (my grandparents used to live there, etc.) — I always thought it was because it was dried out from the trip across the Atlantic! 
btw, your Muenchen photos look *exactly* as I remember things from… omg, 16 years ago now…!! thank you, thank you for all your amazing stories!! now, get drinkin’! jk!
posting from LebanonNovember 6th, 2008 2:55 am
Mom: It had a different feel from Mardi Gras - for one thing, it was kind of hard to find alcohol, as you needed to get tent reservations to drink! - but I’d say the costumes, the crowds, the camaraderie, and the alcohol were all pretty similar 
Quita: The beer was a little much I think, looking back… LOL.
Lissa: That is true! I should have had the gingerbread AFTER drinking…
Maggie: Glad you liked the Oktoberfest stories! I actually gave up on beer for a month after Oktoberfest… the hangover was so brutal! Fortunately, it’s November now so I’m back in the action Middle Eastern “beer” (around 3-4%) just isn’t the same though…
posting from United StatesNovember 7th, 2008 8:02 am
oh man, I had to go to Dachau the day after I spent an extended evening at the Haufbrau House… painful. so painful. That Bavarian beer will put a hurtin on you!
p.s. Even fresh Lebkuken is nasty.
posting from United StatesNovember 12th, 2008 9:42 am
I loved Lebkuchen in Germany. WE went to a factory and got to taste test. They had so many varieties. Maybe it is fresher at Christmas time. WE would go have it at the little Christkindle markts and it was yummy, warm and soft!
November 5th, 2008 8:20 am
How can gingerbread be gross–especially in Germany? Everyone in the pictures appear to be having lots of fun. It must be much like Mardi Gras?
Love,
Mom