Week 100: Oktoberfest in Austria
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For our 100th week, we have added a new section to our site. In the top navigation section, you will find a new area called “The Best of Austria”. As we reminisced on our favorite Austrian memories, we identified our best hikes, views, climbs, ski resorts, mountain huts, and towns. We will be adding more to each list, but these are the ones we have highlighted for now.
We were also supposed to celebrate our 100th week in Austria by checking off another mountain hut this weekend. Unfortunately, the snow sitting high up in the mountains forced us to cancel our overnight stay. So, instead, we enjoyed a weekend at home before our upcoming travels and visitors arrive in the weeks ahead.
This weekend, we managed to step out to attend a small Oktoberfest event happening in the town next to ours. Oktoberfest is the world's largest German-speaking festival featuring beer and a traveling carnival originally celebrated to honor Prince Ludwig's marriage to Princess Therese.
It is an event welcoming around 6 million guests each year and serves seven million liters of beer, one hundred thousand roast chickens, and sixty thousand pork knuckles under thirty-two large tents. While the main event takes place in Munich, which we attended in 2018, it was cool to be a part of the celebrations in Austria.
Oktoberfest 2018
Oktoberfest 2018
Just picture a large white tent in the middle of a field, men and women dressed up in their best Austrian attire, large banners dangling from the tent room, and folk singers encouraging attendees to stand up on the tables and sing their hearts out to whatever tunes were being played. It was quite loud and a little intimidating by ourselves, so we didn’t last long in the tent, but it was fun for a little while.
The crowd inside the tent
Dancing to the music
The tent entrance
The beer and the people
