Day 2

We checked out of the tent at 10am or so after a decent feed for breakfast and headed into the city to find our new accommodation and have a look around. The city has a lot of new buildings because the whole place was nearly destroyed during the second world war. The remaining old buildings are very nice especially in an area called marianplatz. Eventually we found our way around the city with some help from fruit and a map and a stop off for a quick drink in marianplatz. It was time to go to the hotel and wait for the others so we could check in. Just down the road from the hotel was a very nice pizza place where you could buy a whole variety of different slices...very good. The rest of the evening was spent doing some catching up in the downstairs bar and munching on more pizza. Stu and myself managed to catch up with a contiki group and go out into the party area of munich. The nightclub we were in was a little strange...in one room there was up to date dance music sounding pretty good and getting the crowd involved, then if you took a little walk down the hall it was went back in time to the 50's, 60's and 70's, apparently the Germans lve this style of music, it was a good time though.

So arriving back at the hotel at 8 in the morning it was time to get ready for our first day at the festival grounds and the tents of Oktoberfest!!

Stu taking a picture of a very large chuch from the top of some watery mushrooms

From the centre of Marianplatz

The left of the previous picure

Some of the contiki crew