The village fest!

The last weekend of September and this little village parties hard. Its time for Frauenaurach's own Oktoberfest.

The town centre, right next to the church has changed suddenly - has several stalls selling traditional artefacts like schokapfel (apples layered with chocolate syrup), candy, nougats and a thousand other tidbits; a children's car crash zone (I dont remember what that is called) and the quintessential beer tent.

Been to the tent for two consecutive nights. The entire town and visitors gather inside and do beer. They also sing and dance to the beats of the lone live band set up within. You have to be here to feel the festive spirit. Its so infectious that my headache didnt seem to matter at all. Smiling faces, swaying hands, jiggying bodies and happy people everywhere. Blond teenagers just banging their heads to plain rock-n-roll and their mamas doing the twist, with the papas cheering them on and joining with a mug full of bier (as beer is spelt in Deutsche), young men flirting with women and at times getting very touchy-feely with ach other! The songs have been all English with the occasional Spanish La Bamba and German. So I have enjoyed it to the bits.

The similarities with what we would do at a big family gathering and what people did here were not lost on me. Only that though they were drunk, they were more responsible and the very commonplace brawls that always happen at any such do in India, were completely missing.
Having witnessed this trailor of a fest I am so keen on visiting Munich this coming weekend to witness the real big thing.