Munich, Germany

Lessons learned, our first stop was breakfast at Ida's Milchladen. Ida's restaurant was like a warm hug and she was so hospitable to us in our weakened states. We had eggs, muesli, coffee and fruit. The food was very cheap and service was wonderful. We walked around Marienplatz, Glockenspiel, Frauenkirch (which still had scaffolding just like it did in 2009 when we came to Munich) and Karlsplatz.

We came back to the hotel to change into our trachten and went over to Oktoberfest at noon. We met up with a group from "Oktoberfest in Munich" Facebook group: Alex (Ukraine), Tracey and Tom (UK), Tom (Scotland), Eric (Michigan) and Ken (Kansas). We were in the Schutzen tent. We had a great time, stayed from 12 to 3:30 when we were rudely asked to leave :) We both drank 2 radlers and ate plenty: 1/2 chicken with potato salad for me and venison with butter spaetzle for Myron. By the end of the day we were standing on the benches and singing and dancing. However because of the food and radlers, we were not drunk at all! After security booted us from our table, we bought some warm nuts from a vendor and poked our heads in a few other tents to see the decorations.

Next, we sat down in the Fischer Vroni tent which serves Augustiner beer and smoked fish. We found two new friends: Sani and Alex from Germany who both were excited to practice their English and we were excited to make German friends! This was a much quieter tent but still a lot of fun and started to get rowdy around 7pm. We shared a fish dish since we were still full from lunch, and each had a liter of Augustiner beer (not a radler this time...Augustiner is too good to water down!). By the end, we were getting too full to consume much more so we decided to leave around 7pm and say goodbye to our new friends. We also didn't want to be hungover for our flight home.

Back at the hotel, we quickly packed and went to Royal Kebabhaus for dinner, which was actually a vegan donor kebab. It was pretty tasty!Read more