Today was a holiday in Germany--Reunification Day. 25 years ago the Berlin Wall came down. It does not seem that long ago. We spent the day in Munich--in the morning at Oktoberfest and the afternoon, just wandering through downtown.
Oktoberfest reminded me of the State Fair with HUGE beer gardens, and many more people. It seems traditional to dress in drindel skirts and leiderhosen. So cool, to see whole families dressed in that garb. By noon the number of people got to be a bit too much. We did make it into the Old part of Oktoberfest-with the history, and types of rides from the past. It was interesting. A mug is designed each year--and it was just fun to look and people watch.
Downtown was also celebrating - we found enough to keep us busy, just roaming around. The other stores that we found open were the touristy kind of things...a bonus, while waiting for the bus, was the guy in the Boston Red Sox cap rallying a bunch of young men. Turns out that he was from Maine, and he moved to Munich to open a bike shop. He does "beer tours" on weekends. This happened to be a stage party of about 10 guys from UK. They were headed to a rollicking good time.
Wonderful dinner tonight. Tomorrow-we get a bigger look at Innsbruck with a tour in the morning, then we plan to ride up the funiculla to get the mountain view (the one in yesterday's pic) of the city. Tomorrow night several of us are going to see Hansel and Gretl at the Opera House-it is the premier of the production. Kind of exciting.
Pics will be added...so hang in there.
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