Devil wears Lederhosen

If you think that getting into a New York club is a pain, try getting into any beer tent on a weekend at Oktoberfest. There is absolutely no way. Nothing works: no bribing, no sweet talking, no crying, not even selling your soul. The only thing that works is getting into a tent at 9am and claiming a table. The beer is served at 11am. You drink a beer stein in app. 30 minutes and you usually cannot drink more than five without some serious consequences. I think we are all smart enough to figure out that by 3pm you are insanely drunk …

This sounds insane, right? It is. Me, Verena and one of my new colleague decided to be sneaky on Sat, Sep 22 and go at 11am which we thought was a reasonable time during Oktoberfest. Guess what, we were totally wrong, and it did not work, tents were too full already. We tried from 11am to 7pm while taking breaks in between and trying again. We could hear and smell and guess how great the party was inside, but we could not convince ANY doorman to get us in. Until some miracle worked... Miracle: some combination of Guenes the pretty Turkish girl in the pictures, her blond smiley co-worker with plunging neck line that already was in the tent and a Turkish bouncer.

The pictures that you see were taking within the following 3.5 hours. Tents close at 10:30pm and we HAD to catch up with other people that were there (since 9am). Amazingly enough, there were still standing.

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