Blogging about Munich Beer Festival from Hotel
What would one do a day after being drowned in beer for seventeen days. Well I am blogging about Munich beer festival from a Munich hotel not far away from where the festivities are taking place. Yeah I am talking about the famed October fest or "Oktoberfest" as it is called in Munich.
I know you must be thinking I am a nerd, more interested in hammering away at a laptop than really joining the fun. Not true, my counter argument is that if I hadn’t been having fun in the beer fest, then there wouldn’t be any reason to be sitting in this Munich hotel to yak. So you see my friends I was there literally all the days 17 to be exact before I typed even a single word.
The reason I am blogging about the Munich beer festival from a hotel (Hotel München) is because that’s all I can do with the energy left in me at the moment. If it wasn’t for the great experience of the "Oktoberfest" and the memories that needs to be shared with all you folks, I would be tightly asleep. But as much as I would like to sleep, I also want to be the one to record a blow by blow account of the festivities at the Theresienwiese festival grounds. The last seventeen days has been a rush and a stroll kind of affair.
Well there is no one place I can start narrating my experience, blogging about Munich beer festival from a Munich hotel after the over load of seventeen days is a bit daunting. The first thing that comes to mind is the awesomely huge number of people .This wave of people of hundreds of nationalities, sizes , attires and all there with only one single purpose is truly great.
I can still see that crowd in my mind’s eye sitting in this Munich hotel, not far away from the actual beer festival. All that sea of people headed towards the 13 or so large tents allocated to the famous breweries and caterers who supply all the beer, wine, sausage ox, fish, cheese noodle, local favourites Sauerkraut and apple pancakes.
When I started blogging about Munich beer fest from my Munich hotel, one of the things that constantly came to mind is the mammoth scale of the "Oktoberfest”. A number of records get broken constantly which I will not go into much, but imagine what it would take to drown and feed six million people. With its inception in 1810, it has been at the centre of Bavarian culture and the flag bearer of its traditions.
In the present times the Munich beer festival has become a world event .It is tradition for the mayor of Munich to be the first to tap a keg of beer at the most important of the tents, the Schottenhamel. This is the tap that six million visitor wait for every year, a tap I can still hear as I am blogging about the Munich beer festival from my Munich hotel.