I’ve been trying to get a video produced of last Saturday’s adventure. I won’t say just what yet but I dropped a hint here about a year and a half ago. Unfortunately, my dinosaur for a computer took 17 hours alone to compile the video clips into an .avi file and in the end, it forgot to add the sound. So I’ll have to wait to use Alex’s computer to finish the job and send the video to google and publish my post. Very frustrating.
But to counteract this bit of disappointment, we received our balcony furniture and now have our very own piece of outdoor heaven. We were going to have a long balcony-breakfast today but instead I was invited to the Riem Flohmarkt, Bavaria’s largest open area flea market, with Mandy, Fabian and Muffin. I scored 3 espresso machiato cups with matching plates and six stemmed glass desert bowls. But I’m really excited about the great bierkrugs with pewter lids. I’ve been meaning to get some for home and maybe send some to my friends back in the States (just say the word) but they have always been too expensive, 25 to 50+ Euros a pop. At the flea market, there are bierkrugs on practically every table so the prices are around 2 to 4 Euros a piece. Each is slightly imperfect but to me that just ensures that they will be used to keep the beer frothy cold and the bugs/pollen out. It’s just so sad when they are put in some souvenir display to collect dust.
Those are great! We have quite a collection of them, gotten at a time when the dollar actually meant something against the DM and other currencies and long before the Euro.
I’m jealous. Really. I need beer jugs badly.
If I would have them, I would ask my girlfriend to dress up as a dirndl, or how are the Munich Mädel called? Then I would ask her to take my full beer jug between her lovely breasts.
That’s the fantasy of every man, I guess.
Ow, how I yearn for those beer jugs, you can’t begin to imagine…
Greetings from Belgium,
GDB
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@Maribeth: I bet you have some pretty cool looking ones.
@GDB: I’ve heard of that fantasy from more than one guy/girl since arriving in Munich, but it’s very rare you’d get such treatment from the prudish Oktoberfest barmaids. Look but don’t touch and be amazed at the 12 Liters of Bier she’s carrying!