Oktoberfest 2009 day 12: tent hopping

A new set of visitors, a new introductory tour of the Wiesn. We went around noon on Wednesday and poked our heads into several of the tents. Most of them were pretty quiet, and all of them had free tables. Only the Hofbräu tent was full of rowdy drunks at this hour.

We decided to lunch at the Augustiner tent. The service was pretty bad but the food was decent (including my veggie ravioli). The tent’s most striking feature was its forest green canvas roof.

Fake lederhosen at the beery-go-round. You can’t buy Oktoberfest beer unless you’re in a tent or on its patio, but there are a few places around the wiesn where you can get wießbier. One of those places is this slowly rotating platform (actually there are a couple of these).

I get the feeling that this ride would not meet US safety standards.

This sign struck me as an interesting example of Denglish, advertising a little temporary cafe outside of the Oktoberfest grounds. Wiesn is the place where Oktoberfest is held; Treff is a German word meaning ‘get-together’. Obviously the After part is supposed to be understood as the English meaning of the word, and the sign is trying to say ‘hey, here’s a place where you can hang out with your friends after Oktoberfest’. At least I hope that’s what they’re going for, since the alternative would mean using the German meaning of After, which is, ehem, anus.

And on that note, we’re off to the last day of Oktoberfest. Ein Prosit!