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Munich Oktoberfest 2017

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The Munich Oktoberfest 2017 has started

Munich Oktoberfest 2017 logo

 

On a cold and wet Saturday the 184th Oktoberfest started at 12.00 promptly. This year is the longest Oktoberfest, as it finishes on Tuesday 3rd October due to a public holiday. See live video from the Oktoberfest.

Here are some images from the first week-end if you missed them. Many traditions stretching back to early days have made the modern Oktoberfest a must visit spectacle. There is must more than just drinking beer, the many souvenir stalls, grilled Steckelfisch, grilled chicken, and then there all the fun of the fair.

 

Munich Burgermeister taps the first beer, O'zapft is!
Munich Burgermeister taps the first beer, O'zapft is!
Start of the Munich Oktoberfest 2017
Beer time at the Oktoberfest
Trachtenzug 2017
Trachtenzug 2017
Trachtenzug 2017
Trachtenzug 2017
Trachtenzug 2017
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Hope you enjoy these images and will consider visiting or maybe book for next year. Maybe you would like to see the Hofbräu Tent during opening times

 

Visiting Munich for the 2016 Oktoberfest?

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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 LogoEach 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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