I was fortunate enough to go to Munich and to Ocktoberfest last weekend and I think I’m still hung over.

It’s the most incredible and strangest place I’ve ever seen. In the middle of a big park in a lovely city (great architecture) is a funfair with enormous wooden “tents”. In these wooden tents are hundreds and hundreds of people. There are lots of tents. The people inside, moi included, started drinking giant “stein” glasses of super strength lager at 10am in the morning. This is Central European Time – so, 9am in my BST UK orientated head. From here until 16:30, I drank more lager than I have blood. Our party of 19 drank an average of 8.5 steins each – that’s 17 pints. I then went to another bar, after eating a hot dog (that’s all I ate), then another bar. I think I’m probably lucky to be alive, frankly…

I got to thinking, and someone else mentioned this too… if we had that sort of festival in the UK, then there would most likely be dead people floating around in rivers, upturned cars, large fires, destruction on an unimaginable scale and plenty of pavement pizzas (you know, stomach lining flavour) … I just can’t imagine it.