What to look forward to in the world's largest beer festival, Oktoberfest that began last weekend. Locals know the Munich Oktoberfest as the world's largest Stadtfest (meaning "city festival") but to just about everybody else on the planet, it's simply the globe's biggest beer festival. Last year, in just over a fortnight, more that 64 lakh people visited the event and drank 74 lakh one-litre tankards of beer. The Oktoberfest, which began last week, is one of the world's greatest parties and has Read more [...]

That proved her first step to becoming what some here joke is the fastest growing profession in Munich: the dirndl designer. Long considered the dusty uniform of an older, more conservative generation, the erstwhile dress of the Alpine regions of Bavaria and Austria has become a wildly popular symbol of the good times and good life of Germany’s most prosperous region. This is especially apparent during the two weeks of Oktoberfest, which ends Oct. 6, where a dirndl (pronounced DURN-dul) Read more [...]