here's a few more tidbits on what ya'll missed out on.....
http://www.bierfestival-berlin.de/index.php?idcat=24
a video of the only "tent" in the beer fest...I guess they were getting ready for oktoberfest early?
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1) The CROWD...and yes, in certain locations, it was SLOW moving....
2) the beer list....and that's only 1 side...there's another other side to try. it took us about a day and a half to get thru the whole thing
3) beer drinking nuns? arrrooo?
4) HELLO Nurse...
5) What you can get from the nurses...nothing quite like intravenous beer.
6) although there were a ton of portopotties (eeww) and even pay for toilets (.50 cents & nicely cleaned each time), there were some that just thought they'd be warriors.
7) beer, all gone...time to go...peace OUT!
8) should be pic before the beer...but if you want to sober up quickly, you can eat one of these seriously juicy pickles... some beer cheese or brats/currywurst...they had food all over the place.
9) our Plan A & B since getting out of Berlin wasn't working for us. After 2 days of trying to get out of Berlin, we opted to hop the ICE train to AMS...and did get lucky getting out of AMS on the first try...
lesson learned: do not travel standby in August! HAHAHA