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Monday, Oct 02, 2006

Oktoberfest the Ninth

David Murray
2007-03-04 10:12:15

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Sometimes a roll of a dice takes us places that we never expect to go. Back in March, while recovering in Australia, I never thought that I would be sitting here now writing this story. As we all know, or the one's who follow the career of the Uncle, he was offered a job back in the UK working for his former employer. Maybe it was the sickness at the time that made him say yes, maybe it was the lure of being back where his heart belongs, Europe, but as soon as I said yes, arrangements were made to attend the glamorous 2006 Oktoberfest. Hotels and flights were booked and the countdown started. I had 15 weeks to get into form, so I grabbed some training partners, Al the King of Cool, Paul and Big Al and every Friday we would have a lunchtime session. Things were looking good. My liver was coping well, and I was coming along fine. A couple of weeks before the big event, I moved into some extra training. The local Thai supermarket sold Beer Lao. Having had a nice time on it in Laos, I bought up big time, and started drinking this fine beverage quite regularly. My immunity was growing, and the day before we left, I toasted my good health with another couple of Beer Laos.

The flight was a flight, nothing uneventful. I had a couple of warm up beers, but seeing we were flying BA, they were only Carlsberg and Heineken. Once on the ground, we jumped on a train and made our way in. Bavarians were getting on at the stops, loads of Lederhosen and Dirndls. Dressed in their local traditional clothes. Kind of cool, but kind of 80's !!! We jumped out and went to the hotel. Our station is the closest to the ground, so it was packed. Our hotel by the way is only 200 metres from the grounds so we dumped our bags and got ourselves ready. The drinking time was upon us

The sun was shining so we knew we would have trouble finding a seat. The majority of the tents were not letting people in, and it was full of sleazy fucking Italians, who were groping ...