{"id":493,"date":"2017-01-30T12:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=493"},"modified":"2017-03-16T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:36:01","slug":"erasmus-society-trip-to-oktoberfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/erasmus-society-trip-to-oktoberfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasmus Society: Trip to Oktoberfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lisandra.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-451 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lisandra-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lisandra\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Lissandra Radu<\/p>\n<p>Before Christmas, the Erasmus society organised a trip to OKTOBERFEST!\u00a0Keeping in mind that my only experience with beer is going to the pub\u2019s beer garden, I had absolutely no expectation of what the day would be like. We left Vienna on the Thursday evening, taking a night party train to Munich where the festival takes places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/oktoberfest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-496 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/oktoberfest-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"oktoberfest\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/oktoberfest-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/oktoberfest.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tip no. 1: Do NOT get *too* drunk on the train as you will have to nurse your hangover for 14 hours at a beer festival.<\/p>\n<p>Tip no. 2: Invest in traditional dress, a dirndl for girls or lederhosen for boys, although I wore an adaptation of the male outfit. The whole dressing up process puts you in the mood for partying and you really feel as part of the event!<\/p>\n<p>The festival itself can only be described as an adult Disneyland, where instead of princess houses you have massive beer tents where a band plays traditional German songs and people bang their 1 litre jugs of beer in tune. It was fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>The first part of the day we spent in a tent where we had booked tables, drinking beer (or if you do not like beer, you can have a Radler which is essentially beer watered down with lemonade!) and eating chicken or pretzels. The second part we moved around different tents, each with a slightly different atmosphere, in search for a table that would fit all 15 of us. Turns out people actually book these tables a year in advance, so as you can guess, we did not have much luck but it was definitely a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14441164_1536376693045857_6861964166558489407_n-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-494 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14441164_1536376693045857_6861964166558489407_n-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"14441164_1536376693045857_6861964166558489407_n (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14441164_1536376693045857_6861964166558489407_n-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/14441164_1536376693045857_6861964166558489407_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In hindsight, the trip was definitely a whole new experience and I am gutted I did not get to try the caramelised almonds, which are supposedly to die for. Personally, as I am not an avid admirer of beer, Oktoberfest might not be the ideal festival for me. However, having said that, it is a great place to have a lot fun with your friends and a very good excuse for day drinking J.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lissandra Radu Before Christmas, the Erasmus society organised a trip to OKTOBERFEST!\u00a0Keeping in mind that my only experience with beer is going to the pub\u2019s beer garden, I had absolutely no expectation of what the day would be like. We left Vienna on the Thursday evening, taking a night party train to Munich where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/erasmus-society-trip-to-oktoberfest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erasmus Society: Trip to Oktoberfest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[22,40,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgt.dept.shef.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}