My friend James came up with a great idea- not only go to Oktoberfest this year but rent an RV and drive there from Sicily. For the last week of the 199th Oktoberfest 5 guys piled into an RV in Catania and headed north to the world’s largest fair. After stopping overnight we arrived at a campground in Munich on Monday afternoon. We quickly cleaned up and headed downtown to the beer tents. 
Over the course of the week we would hit up most of the major tents at the fair. In the beer tents we met people from all over the world. There was a really positive spirit in the air, everyone was very friendly and excited to meet new people. The tents would close at 11pm and most of the time we would head out to a bar afterwards with our new friends. 
We also toured the city a bit and tried out some of the famous beer halls such as the Hofbrau House and the Augustiner House. We also found some beer gardens in the main central park of Munich. 
We met lots of nice people and we would sometimes go to the bars until very late with our new friends. On our last day my friend Sara and her friend Sarah came to Oktoberfest on part of their epic European tour so I got to hang out with one of my good friends from home at the festival too.
Munich is a really nice city, everything is clean and organized. They have very good public transportation that runs until very late. Our campground was actually in the city and we could take the subway from our campground to anywhere in the city we wanted to go.
We stayed for 5 days and it’s a good thing we didn’t stay longer because we were a mess by the end. We were exhausted and all of our voices were raspy from trying to talk in the loud beer tents. We had a joke going that when you met someone you could tell how many days they had been at the festival based on how their voice sounded. (It is not me in the picture below)
