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Gäubodenvolksfest

Categories: Sightseeing, Cultural and History

Ochsenbraterei tent
Ochsenbraterei tent

[ source: Straubing city website]

What a feast for the senses as you enter one of the seven massive beer tents. Men are dressed in tight-fitting lederhosen, women in long, frilly blouses complemented by aprons every colour of the rainbow.

Waiters shoulder metre-long trays laden with pork knuckles, wurst, sauerkraut and massive Masskrug tankards while a brass band thumps out traditional drinking music. Table-loads of people have risen to their feet, climbed on the benches and are stomping in time to the oompah music. I am beginning to understand why Bavarian writer Max Penzkofer called the Gaubodenvolksfest "a little glimpse of paradise".

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Location: 94315 Straubing, Germany

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