Oktoberfest!

Now some people think it is just a bunch of tents where people induce vomiting but I feel that in a decently large enough group, say 4 or 5 people at least, you could have so much fun totally ignoring the crowd of drunken people. Also not everyone is going to be that way. Now the Germans have great beer and on top of that, Oktoberfest is supplied with special Oktoberfest beer! A liter cost 7.80 to 8.30 Euros this year, which is expensive BUT the beauty is that if you stay for much of the whole thing, just relaxing, drinking 2 beers a night or something, you totally don't have to have a Eurail pass going at that time. So maybe go traveling for 3 months, and end your trip in Munich, then of course fly or train back to the city you are flying out of. (The reason why you wouldn't fly out of Germany would be the prices induced by the festival.) So anyway, after the story was told by two good friends in college of how they had such a great time over at Oktoberfest (they of course told it differently than what I heard), I decided along with a roommate of mine, that it would be oh so fun to go and it became one of my life's goals.

I don't have many goals in life, when I was in 7Th grade I saw a picture of Mont Saint-Michel and said "I want to go there!" I did go there when I studied abroad in Austria, on my 18 day trip after school ended, I saw it on the schedule and it cost me 36 Euro round trip and it was worth every penny. I would also be willing to go back there. I felt the strongest winds in my life when I was there! I could hardly stand, this decently athletic man (mostly because I had been walking miles and miles every day).

Costs of Munich and Oktoberfest would probably be a bit higher than normal, BUT if you have used up your Eurail, which for a 3 month pass is like 10.22 Euro a day, you are certainly going to offset the cost a little with that. It would also extend a trip by up to 16 days and who knows what kind of fun you could have. One of the problems is housing which will probably cost a fortune unless we find some random people to stay with. Or we could just plan a day or two along the trip to relax here in Munich and then move on if we wanted to make it in the middle of the trip. Also, even though I would like to go to Oktoberfest, I personally don't mind the idea of me being forced to travel to Europe for a 4Th time and going at a later date. Things of note would be that 2010 is the 200Th Anniversary of the Oktoberfest, although only the 177Th festival. So possibly expensive, maybe not in the budget.