Munich, Germany
Took a posh overnight train to Munich and met Ruan at the station. Such a happy reunion! The first day at Oktoberfest we drank at the Lowenbrau tent. We started at 11am and by 4pm (3 beers and a lot of pretzels later) I was being led back to the hostel. The second day Ruan and I went by ourselves and didn’t start drinking until 4pm. We managed to hold out until 8pm. It was a fun festive atmosphere—we ate pretzels and sausages (with the skins on at first, until some laughing Germans pointed out we were doing it wrong), chicken, sauerkraut. We met lots of locals and talked and made friends and had numerous opportunities to yell “PROST!”