well well well. its been a while since i've done any sort of up date so I guess I'll do it place by place starting with oktoberfest in munich about a month ago.
"ze fest" Munich 17th - 24th sep
How can you go wrong with a beer and food festival?? Exactly, you can't! For those who haven't been, picture the Melbourne show but bigger and replace the showbags stands with beer and the animal halls with beer halls full of people drinking themselves into oblivion while dancing and singing and just getting involved in blatant debauchery! Grega and I got to Munich on the wednesday before it all started and had the pleasure of taking part in free beer tasting at our hostel while being lectured by a big and I mean big german girl on how to say cheers in german (proost) and that if we didn't look each other in the eye when saying proost we'd have 10 years of bad sex! Good enough reason for me...
On the Thursday we met up with a Tony B and co at the camp grounds and it was great to see that we had the biggest tent in the whole grounds- a giant teepea. We also caught up with Will Dunn who happened to have the worst tent in all of the fest which you can check in some photos that i'll eventually get up. On the Friday most of our crew went to watch the afl prelim but for once in my life I put footy second and went along with some perth boys to watch the infamous 100 club at another camp ground. Basically its a massive group of people who have been touring right through the european summer and they all meet up at the fest to do the 100 club which is 100 shots in 100 minutes with a MASSIVE TWIST! There were about 80 people doing the 100 and at least 1500 people there watching these blokes and 1 disgraceful chick drink whatever was put in front of them by the judges in the middle. Once it starts the bake beans chillis eggs etc start coming out which doesn't seem too bad but then when people start spewing they don't just spew on the ground, no they're made to spew into a beer bong (funnel with a hose coming out of) then someone else doing the 100 would be made to scull it. yes scull someone elses spew. so wrong! But it got worse! I seriously couldn't believe what I was seeing, next thing you know the judges and other randoms are pissing into peoples buckets and also into the beer bongs so the people still in were literally drinking other peoples piss.... Once it finished the whole place just erupted with people smashing bottles, eskies, tables and whatever else you could get your hands on. It was definitely one the more bizar displays I'd seen!
The Saturday- finally it was time for ze fest! And boy it didn't disappoint! We had a mini reunion catching up with people who we hadn't seen in ages which was awesome! We just stood on tables smashing down litre steins and eating whole chickens! What more could anyone want! The atmosphere was amazing and everyone was there with same intentions of having as much fun as they possibly could! One of the boys, Andy Kav arrived in munich at about midday on the saturday and by 6pm he was in the medical tent on a drip, we got a call from a nurse saying that he couldn't speak english, it was hilarious! Its really hard to explain how much fun it is to someone that hasn't been. But its definitely somewhere that everyone has to go and experience!
I'll do an update on London, Amsterdam and Berlin shortly. I'm currently living in Dublin and my new number is +353 85 2854030
Hope you are all well!
bren / chick
