Euro trip-1

I am on a student exchange visit from IIM Calcutta, India to Katholieke University Leuven (KUL) in Belgium for a period of 90 days. Why I chose this university? The reason was that few of my good friends were going to the nearest university to KUL, so I chose it.

After spending first week relaxing in my room at 11th floor and enjoying the Belgian beer at room only, we finally decided to clip off our laziness and to start our Eurotrip.
Last weekend ie: 22-26 September 2009, we went to Germany to visit the very famous Oktoberfest. The trip, indeed started with lots of excitement with we missing our train on the very first day. And the reason was not our laziness as in most of the times but it was the rare train delay in Europe. So, we came back to Brussels for night stay and shifted our all plans for the next day. The night was the traditional 'bakar' night with lots of beers and plans overflowing. The next day, all 8 of us started for Frankfurt. The time filler in the train was our beloved '29'- the card game. We reached Frankfurt at 4 in the evening, had some burgers at Burger King and rushed to the big Auto show which closes at 7 in the evening. We were dual minded over paying 7.5 euros for just 2 hours of glamorous models (included car models too :P)

The Auto show was indeed phenomenal. It was vast and watching Merc, Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Maybach, Lamborghini and others was worth spending our time. The big point of the auto show was the girl dancing around the pole in the Harley Davidson section.

At midnight, we had our trains scheduled to Munich for Oktoberfest. The station was pretty big and we spent our time at station and nearby roads roaming around. We reached Munich at 6 in the morning and it was dead cold at that time. We all shivered till 9 when the Oktoberfest started. We took our seats in the tent and ordered big one liter beer mugs with some snacks. In a few hour time, the environment was contagious with everyone standing over their seats singing and dancing. It was great fun and the whole tiredness went away with the yummy beer. We even bought Oktoberfest beer hats as souvenir to our memories.

We then wandered around the old city in the evening capturing beautiful churches, buildings and hustlers. The German people were looking at us in our hats with joy and surprise. One lady even asks us to take a snap with her :P. The train back to Brussels was at 3 in the morning, so we slept at the station with our luggage. We returned back to Leuven at around 11 in the morning on Tuesday, took bath and slept in peace.

This weekend (means from Friday 02 October 2009 morning), we are checking out the trains and other places of interest. Once I am back, will update you.
Cheers!!
Bon Voyage!