Oktoberfest is here...

[vbhoutex]

No recent updates from Bunkertor...

Has anyone looked under those tables at the cam sites above? J/K

Bunkertor where are you?

[Bunkertor]

He there, i´m alive and well. Unfortunately Oktoberfest happens 1000 km away from my hometown so i can´t take part in celebrating Bacchus and enrich tentowners ( Wiesenwirte ).
But, it´s sad anyhow

[WmE]

:D

He there, i´m alive and well. Unfortunately Oktoberfest happens 1000 km away from my hometown so i can´t take part in celebrating Bacchus and enrich tentowners ( Wiesenwirte ).
But, it´s sad anyhow

Approx. 300km away and I'm considering going there. My brother in law was there yesterday.

[CajunMama]

Go wme! And we want pics of you, your beer and your women!

[Bunkertor]

When Ed openend the thread here, i thought we should have one at my basketball-site either. A colleague from München, posted some facts for the guys there. So, i c&p them in here for your information and to keep the thread alive.

Prosit !

Oktoberfest (Wiesn) is the biggest folk (beer) festival in the world. It´s in Munich.

Some facts:

- 12.000 people (thereof 1.200 waiters) work at the Oktoberfest
- there are tents with a seating capacity of 100.000
- the area of the Oktoberfest is 40 hectare (1 hectare = 10.000 square metres)
- the biggest tent has a capacity of 10.000 seats
- it needs about 1 month to build the "tents" which are build out of wood and steel...
- the cost of half a roasted chicken is 8.90 Euro
- the cost for a beer (you only get 1 liter = 1 Maass ) is 8.20-8,40 Euro

Some records of last year:

- 6.2 million visitors in 16 days
- they drank 6.7 million liters beer (= 11 million pints)
- there is one tent called "Ochsenbraterei" where you can eat ox from a skewer (the guests ate 104 oxen there)
- beer consumption at one day: 419,000 liters

Here some photos:

http://www.travelpav.com/flash_pages...oberfest_1.htm
http://www.molon.de/galleries/German...fest/index.php

Here the official site: http://www.oktoberfest.de/

[Bunkertor]

Yumm

[Bunkertor]

2008 boxscore

Beer consumption declined by 300,000 litres to 6.6 million
The number of visitors fell by 200,000 to 6 million.
--> bad weather

Staff found lost items:

680 identity cards and passports
410 wallets
360 keys
265 spectacles
280 mobile phones
80 cameras
one set of diving goggles
one set of angel's wings
a superman costume
four wedding rings
and a dog.

104 oxen were eaten up - stable.

200,000 empty Mass, that are clipped by visitors as mementoes, could be recovered.