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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Hofbrauhaus...You win...You always do

If you’re ever in Munich one thing you have to see is the Hofbrauhaus. It’s a famous beer hall in Germany where everyone sits at picnic-type tables and listens to the German band play German drinking songs. Occasionally a couple guys and girls in Oktoberfest clothes come out and show the patrons how Germans dance to this type of music.

It is a huge place and when you walk through it is kind of intimidating because you need to pick a seat with other people, but the question is what nationality will it be. There were plenty of Asian tables, but we already had the train ride with the Japanese and a German beer hall and Asians weren’t the right mix. We wanted to find some German guys that would be able to teach us German drinking songs, but it seems like these guys come prepared and bring the right amount of people to fill up one table. We actually run into a couple from Boston and we sit down next to them. They wouldn’t be able to teach us any songs but it was nice to speak with Americans for a while.


LA convinces the woman we are sitting with to get up with her to dance near the band. The second they get there some German guys run up there to dance with them. The one that grabbed LA, whom I assume works for the sanitation department based on his smell, teaches her a few Germanic dance moves. After the song we were talking with a group of his friends. They were asking us what we were doing after this and if we wanted to go to a disco or maybe hang out at a hostel bar. At this point it’s midnight, we have been there a couple hours, and I would rather smell like this German than go to this disco. And we are sure as hell not having them come back to our hostel. LA was messing with them, I found out a few moments later, and telling them we were definitely coming. They went to the bathroom and LA said she would watch their beer and the second they turned the corner she said “let’s get out of here” and we made a break for the exit. We ran about a quarter mile until we knew they wouldn’t see our direction.

This is the second time I have been to this Hofbrauhaus and I hate to admit that it beat me again. This time we didn’t get kicked out, though. I learned the last time they don’t seem to like it when you try to play the band’s instruments when they are on break.

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