jcb
always emerging from hibernation
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Is there power on the train?
Isn't the real question whether the power is German or Austrian?
Is there power on the train?
Starting to think about what to do after our Adventure and we think we might take the train from Munich to Salzberg, Austria.
It's about 90 minutes by train and the rates seem reasonable.
We want to climb every mountain......
Hi everyone! Today at noon the 2012 Wies'n (the local name for the Oktoberfest - it means meadow as it takes place on an area that used to be a meadow outside the city and still is called Theresienwiese - Teresa's meadow - today) started.
Therefore the media here is full with reports about it and I thought since you will be in Munich for Oktoberfest 2013 you might be interested in some links.
The first is an article from the English language section of Germany's largest online news website "Spiegel online":
http://www.spiegel.de/international...re-beer-swilling-at-oktoberfest-a-857213.html
And the second one is a short video (I hope you can access it from the US) of the mayor of Munich tapping the first keg today at 12 noon which marks the official start. No beer is sold before that ritual. The current mayor has been in office for a number of years, so he is already very skilled in the art of keg tapping and he only needed two strikes which is considered an achievement!
http://www.br.de/fernsehen/bayerisches-fernsehen/import/audiovideo/ozapftis-100.html
Oh - and he says "O'zapft is" which is Bavarian for "Angezapft ist es" and that translates into "It is tapped".
Hope you enjoy these!
Starting to think about what to do after our Adventure and we think we might take the train from Munich to Salzberg, Austria.
It's about 90 minutes by train and the rates seem reasonable.
We want to climb every mountain......
Photos from this year's Octoberfest!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/europe/gallery/oktoberfest-beer-festival/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
This looks amazing
There is even a tuba photo.
It looks like Lufthansa's website will allow for booking of flights for our travel dates sometime this week!
Jason
I found this blog entry about German food and just had to share. Hilarious and oh so good.....
http://www.everywhereist.com/7-badass-bavarian-foods-you-must-try/
Might as well get this out of the way now...
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