Visiting Munich for the 2016 Oktoberfest?

2016 Oktoberfest

This year the 2016 Oktoberfest festival starts on September 17th at 12:00am until October 3rd and started in 1810 for the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig.

If you are planning on visiting the Munich 2016 Oktoberfest, pleased be aware that there will be extra strong security on all visitors. This could include banning all rucksacks and bag searches and spot checks on personal identity. In today’s world of people wishing to do harm to others for a range of reasons, this is understandable. For more information, see the Oktoberfest Insider website.

What to expect is sometimes based on what you know and have knowledge of. The Oktoberfest is the biggest peoples festival in the world serving a lot of beer. Many cities around the world have created their own Oktoberfest, but there is nothing like the original.

2016 Oktoberfest Logo Each year Munich holds a competition to select the design for the Oktoberfest. This year it was won by Linda Sophie Schultheis & Susanna Schneide.

Bierkrugs, t-shirts and many other articles are using the logo to identified this years “Wiesn”. It is now 50 years since the idea for a logo or icon first started.

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Since the beginning of the year we have been having many problems with the existing home hosting company. The final straw was in February, when the server this website was hosted on was hacked. We managed to get it working again and then 3 days later, down again.

Opened tickets concerning the problem went un-answered, live Chat sessions produce promises which never happen. So the decision was made to final a new hosting company, with the type of hosting we required, the excellent WordPress platform and great support staff. Eventually we think we have found one and will be test the installation live over the coming weeks.

Since moving to the new hosting company we are happy to report that uptime has been excellent.

Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible

We apologise for being off-line

The Munich City Guide was off line for 6 days due to the web server at the hosting company being hacked. We take pride in offering a guide to Munich for English speaking visitors and depend on the services provided by a hosting company. Over the last 20 years the Guide has been operating this has happened a few times, mainly due to technical problems. Hacking is the latest challenge facing website owners and service providers. Our site was not hacked and regular checks are made to prevent any malware being distributed.

Were does the title come from?

In the early days of television in the UK, the BBC had a test card displayed when technical problems happened. The words ” Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible ” are part of British television history. There is an article about the very first video recorder used by the BBC, and when this stopped working for any reason, then the message ” Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible” was displayed.

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Normal Service will be resumed as soon as possible BBC2 Testcard

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