I'm starting a list of things to do before I die. Here's my first entry: Oktoberfest in Munich. Of all the places I'd visit in Europe, I've always said it's either Ireland or Germany. And if Germany, why not go over my birthday and celebrate Oktoberfest? This article sealed the deal.
Visitors to this year's Munich Oktoberfest ate 11 oxen and drank 500,000 liters of beer (4,260 bbls) in the first two days, the organizers of the world's biggest beer festival said.The city was blessed with glorious sunshine on Saturday and Sunday when it staged two grand processions of decorated beercarts, Oompah bands, folk groups and waitresses in Dirndl dresses to mark the opening of one of the world's most famous festivals
Overall, 6,000,000 liters of beer are consumed over two weeks. One million people partied on opening weekend. However, if you do go, you may want to go easy on the beer before hitting up the haunted house:
And one drunken 22-year-old Swiss man who visited a ghost train, one of the attractions at the Oktoberfest, got so scared by a mechanical ghost that he literally punched its lights out.