1. The trains there are on the honor system. The process involves buying a ticket from a kiosk, getting it stamped with the current day's date, and making your way onto the train. Not once did I have a single person look at my train ticket, but apparently if you get caught without one there is a huge fine. I don't really like this system, I want to be recognized for the effort (aka money) I put into things.
2. This will probably be the first and last time I will ever go to Oktoberfest. I knew going into it that you have to be a beer drinker, one of which I am not. The first night in Munich we went to Hofbrauhaus, knowing we wouldn't be able to get into a tent at Oktoberfest. The loud music, yelling, and beermaidens carrying up to 5 liters of beer in each hand was pretty impressive (trust me...just one of them is really heavy). Also, you wouldn't believe how I excited I was when I saw someone wearing an Oakland A's hat, only to find out that they had no idea who the A's were. The next day we got up at 7 to line up early to attempt to get a space in a tent at Oktoberfest. After waiting for about an hour we found seats outside at the Schottenhamel tent. It was cold and rainy, but the heat lamps provided some warmth. Once sitting down, we were served our first beer before 10 AM. It didn't help that I woke up with a sore throat, so that kind of put a damper on the day. I ended up leaving around one to go back to hotel, because I really was not feeling well. Ultimately, that was my Oktoberfest experience and although I didn't get the whole entire "drunk" experience, it was still fun
3. Munich has the best chocolate croissants EVER
Click here for the link to my album from Oktoberfest (I'm sorry about the lack of pictures of me, but there were plenty of them taken by others so I will add those eventually)
3 things I learned while in Germany
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Posted by Rachel at 9:32 AM
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2 comments:
chocolate croissants..yummmy!!!
did you say guten tag, auf wiedersehen & guten morgen ??
haha nope, I had people speaking german to me and all I could come up with was "Sorry, I'm American!"
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