Ready, Set, Oktoberfest!

Although we started planning this trip months ago, we were months late planning for our Oktoberfest adventure. As we found out, the weekend we are planning on visiting Munich and experiencing Oktoberfest is Italian Weekend, meaning every Italian between the ages of 18 and 24 converges on Munich and occupies every hotel, hostel, friend's apartment, and empty Fiat in Munich. After a hasty scrammble to find a place and a train to/from Munich we're all set.

The game plan; arrive in Munich on Friday 9/25, meet up with Kenny and his buddy. Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday morning: Oktoberfest like there's no tomorrow! Prost!

Suggestions?

The extent of Lara and my international travels is a few trips to the border towns of Mexico and Canada and some short trips to London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Ireland so this trip is kind of new to us to say the least. With that said we could use some suggestions on what to see, where to stay, what not to eat, etc. on our trip. Here is a more detailed itinerary for people to check out and comment on. Comment away!!!

9/21/09, Vienna

9/23/09, Prague

9/25/09, Munich

9/27/09 - 10/10/09, Italy

10/10/09 - 10/21/09, Greece and Turkey

10/22/09 - 11/4/09, India

11/5/09 - 11/20/09 China

11/21/09 - 11/29/09, Cambodia and Thailand

11/29/09 - 12/1/09, Singapore

12/2/09 - 12/21/09, Australia

Booked!!!

It's a wrap! We've booked our tickets around the world, given notice to our employers and started packing. Look out world!

We've created a google map of our route around the world and put it in this blog. We do need to recant a little of what we said above. There are some 'patches' in our route which we need to figure out. We arrive in Vienna and we plan on visiting Prague, Munich, most of Italy and depart Rome; we'll do this by train. We arrive in Delhi and somehow we need to get to Chennai a week and a half later, not really sure how we're going to do that. The same can be said about our time in Cambodia and Thailand, how do you get from Phnom Penh to Bangkok? We spend three weeks in Australia to close out the trip and that is another tbd trip.