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A Guide to Munich Beer Festivals – Oktoberfest 2011
Perfected over hundreds of years to a high quality, German beer is world re-nowned as being some of the best beer available. Not only is the beer itself known around the world as being full of flavour and passion; the famous beer festivities associated with the beverage continually entice visitors year on year to sample the best Germany has to offer.
Munich Beer Festivals offer culinary delights and beverages to suit all palettes
Perfected over hundreds of years to a high quality, German beer is world re-nowned as being some of the best beer available. Not only is the beer itself known around the world as being full of flavour and passion; the famous beer festivities associated with the beverage continually entice visitors year on year to sample the best Germany has to offer. Germany always excels when it comes to celebrating and what better way is there to have a good time than party with brilliant live music, fairground rides and of course an endless supply of beer. Of the Munich beer festivals, Oktoberfest 2011 is the largest of the beer festivals planned this year and is sure to impress.
This year marks Oktoberfest’s 201st anniversary
The Oktoberfest takes place every year between the end of September and the beginning of October lasting for two weeks, located in Munich, Germany. Each year over six million visitors descend on Munich’s Oktoberfest to down their share of the seven million litres that the festival has to offer. Visitors devour approximately 300,000 sausages, 600,000 roast chickens and 80 oxen each year at the festivals many food stalls. The opening ceremony is cause for celebration involving the people of Munich. A parade containing a spectacular display of colour and music erupts into the streets with wagons and “floats” of the different beer providers carrying their beer to the main festival area of the Theresienwiese. The amusement park located at the centre of Theresienwiese is a sight to behold with its many rides on offer, including bumper cars, rollercoasters, miners trains as well as new entries such as “The Tower” , a huge attraction holding emphatic shows and 3D experiences.
Although there has been many modern attractions introduced to the festival over the years the Oktoberfest still clings to tradition, only allowing beer from the Munich beer festivals breweries sold on-site in the many large tents to be consumed by visitors. Staff and brewery owners are also dressed in traditional clothing giving the public a real feel for customary German life. Following tradition, no beer can be served inside the tents until the mayor has tapped the opening barrel. After the precession has passed through Theresienwiese the party begins with live music and dancing the order of the day. Entry to Oktoberfest 2011 is free and there is always space on the day as long as you get there early. The beer is served from 10 am till 10:30 pm weekdays and from 9 am to 22.30 pm on Saturdays Sundays and bank holidays. Ensure your party arrive no later than lunch time otherwise you may not find somewhere to sit and beer is not served to those standing.
About the Author
DERTOUR is a UK based travel agency with 50 years of experience specialising in a Beer Festivals including the popular Munich Beer Festival’s – Oktoberfest 2011, taking travellers to the heart of Europe. DERTOUR caters for a large range of budgets, ensuring that anyone can experience the true culture of Germany and other popular destinations within Europe.
Teddy Bear Collecting
This article is dedicated to the Teddy Bear, a great and extremely loyal friend to man. Like man, the teddy bear is a great explorer and a lover of adventures. The teddy bear also, like man, has had his fair share of being in the limelight both on our screens and as a great and unforgettable character in books.
Since 1907, when the Thomas A. Edison Co. made The Teddy Bears, the first moving picture about teddy bears, films and television have been making the teddy bear famous on screen. One of the very first teddy bears to appear on british television was a glove puppet teddy bear called Sooty. In 1948, an amateur magician called Harry Corbett bought a teddy bear glove puppet whilst holidaying in Blackpool, England with his family. The puppet was bought originally just to entertain his children and they named the puppet simply ‘Teddy’, however, Corbett then started to use him as part of his magic act. Whilst appearing on a talent show called Talent Night in 1952, Corbett and his glove puppet were spotted by the producers of the chilren’s series Saturday Special. Teddy prompty received a make-over – his nose and his ears were blackened – and his name was then changed to ‘Sooty’. In 1955, Sooty was given his own show called The Sooty Show. Later on he was joined by his best pal ‘Sweep’ and his girlfriend (who happened to be a Panda) called ‘Soo’. Strangely Sooty and Soo were never allowed to touch on television.
Folllowing the death of Harry Corbett in 1975, his son Matthew took over, but in 1996, Sooty, Sweep and Soo was sold for £1.4 million to the merchant bankers, Guinness Mahon who were intent on increasing Sooty’s audience, so hopefully, fingers crossed, at some time, once again, we may just see a lot more of him.
There was also the lovely little Chiltern Teddy Bear who was propelled into stardom in 1965, his name was Teddy Edward. This gorgeous little teddy bear travelled the world for the BBC’s famous children’s programme, Watch With Mother. Teddy Edward was purposely never dressed, although when he ventured into the mountains of Nepal, he wore a beautiful (and now famous) Napalese coat, which was given to him by his friend Domtuk (who was a Panda), he too wore a coat which was very similar to Teddy Edward’s.
In December 1996, Teddy Edward was sold at the auction house Christie’s in London to a Yoshihiro Sekiguchi, President of the Japanese toy company Sun Arrow. Teddy Edward fetched the staggering sum of £34,500. He is now on display in one of his teddy bear museums in Japan.
Another very famous T.V. bear was Andy Pandy’s friend ‘Teddy’, a very handsome Chad Valley Teddy Bear. Teddy was quiet, charming and was best friend to Andy Pandy and Looby Loo.
Teddy Bears such as Paddington Bear, although famous for television, originally made their names in the literary world. It was Christmas Eve in 1956 when a young cameraman called Michael Bond was doing some last minute christmas shopping. He was desperately looking for a christmas present for his wife when, whilst stopping at a famous London store, noticed a teddy bear looking at him. He was the only teddy bear who hadn’t been sold. Hence, his wife received a teddy bear for Christmas that year. The little bear was named ‘Paddington’ as Michael and his wife were living very close to the famous Paddington Station at the time. Just a few days later, Michael Bond was simply inspired to write a story about this teddy bear and once the book was published, it became an instant success. The book has now been translated into at least thirty different languages and was later followed up by even more novels, short stories and dozens and dozens of picture books, then of course, the television animation. Very soon Paddington Bear became practically a household name, becoming very famous too for wearing wellington boots and a duffle coat. There is loads of childrens clothes and various pieces of merchandise the whole world over with Paddington Bear on. In Paddington Station, London, there is a special Paddington Bear stand, dedicated especially to him.
Then we have the very famous Rupert Bear and also Winnie the Pooh who started their lives in the literary world and went on to become stars of screen and in Winnie’s case, his adventures were transformed into a series of feature length cartoons by Walt Disney Studios from 1966 on.
We have also seen the absolutely adorable Aloysius teddy bear, star of the Brideshead Revisited series and fallen in love with him.
Then we have the famous teddy bears whose claim to fame is accompanying their keepers on dangerous activites and adventures such as Mr Whoppit, the teddy bear who accompanied Donald Campbell (the British car and speedboat enthusiast). Together Campbell and Whoppit broke the water-speed record seven times, reaching 444.7 kph (276.3 mph) in Bluebird on Lake Dumbleyung, Australia in 1964. That very same year they also broke the land-speed record at Lake Eyre Salt flats, Australia with 648.7 kph (403.1mph). Together they survived several major crashes but on the 4 January 1967 Donald Campbell’s luck ran out. On Consiton Water in England’s Lake District, they both tried for a new world record with an outward run of 466.7 kph (290 mph). Tragedy struck when Bluebird’s nose lifted and Campbell and Whoppit were plunged into the depths at 482.8 kph (300 mph). Mr Whoppit survived, he floated to the surface a few minutes after the impact, it is said he became buoyant due to his kapok stuffing. Campbell’s daughter, Gina, carried on with the record breaking attempts and Mr. Whoppit joined her.
However, these are just a handful of famous bears from the past and from the present, although, as all teddy bear lovers know, there are many teddy bears who are heroic and very special in their own right, who no-one has ever heard of and it is to these wonderful old friends that we take our hats off to, and we would just finish this article by saying, Long May They Reign……
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Gino loves fast cars, especially fast italian cars. Gino also loves anything Italian. Gino also heads an old teddy bear site which is full of adorable old teddy bears and their friends.
Please visit his website at www.ginosbears.co.uk
What are some good tips for learning German?
Ok,so im an American who would like to become fluent “or at least semi-fluent” in the German language.In my spare time ive been learning little by little,but id like to speed up the process.Can anyone recommend a good free online language course?Or in the very least give me advice on the best way,and the quickest way to learn the language?
hang out with german people. i have family and friends that speak german and its great to get the right sound. that and good schooling
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Review Rocket German – Will it Actually Work?
Rocket German is an on-line German learning program. Does it actually work?
WHAT’S INSIDE ROCKET GERMAN?
Rocket German can be purchased as a downloadable software or as a CD set that can be mailed to your home. Inside you will find audio recordings, special software games, videos, and more. In addition, you get access to the Learning Lounge where you can test your progress, and communicate with other students and instructors.
The basic method is teaching German by a process called “visual association”. Visual association is the way you learned to speak your native language. You SAW something and HEARD the word for it at the same time. In this manner you effortlessly and quickly learned the meanings of words. Rocket German tries to replicate the process with the use of audio, video, and specially designed software.
DOES IT REALLY WORK?
If you are serious and willing to work with the material regularly, Rocket German is a very powerful way to learn to speak German. Ideally, you should aim to view the lessons for some time everyday (30min to 1hr at least). The lessons are designed to build on one another. Therefore, being consistent is very important.
Picking up a new language is much like learning to ride a bike. For the first little while you might think that you are not getting anywhere. If you persist, however, you will hit a point where things suddenly come together. You will find yourself creating sentences without effort and picking up most of the words in the audio recordings.
From there you can go on to learn more vocabulary and more advanced grammar.
IS ROCKET GERMAN A GOOD FIT FOR EVERYONE?
Some people find it difficult to focus unless there is some outside pressure like an upcoming “exam” or a teacher checking their “homework”.
Rocket German is a do it yourself program. It is powerful but you have to provide the consistency yourself.
If you feel you need the pressure of a class setting in order to take action, look into classes at a local college. Keep in mind that a class will cost much more and can take longer.
If you are sincere about wanting to learn German and can put aside some time daily, Rocket German can have you speaking German in 8-10 weeks.
Get instant access to the Rocket German program at =>Rocket German Lessons
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Dual-language (german-english) texts (stories, news, letters,dialogues etc.) online..?
I need dual-language (german-english) texts (stories, news, letters,dialogues etc.) online to improve my elementary german. I’ve found a website (www.a-language-guide.com) but this is not enough. Where can I find more?
Thanks everyone!
You can try Wikipedia.org and change the language to German for almost any article you want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herz
also try (it has multiple language choices)
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,265,00.html
learn German online for free?
i really want to learn German, i did very good in it in 8th grade. I’m in 9th now, but i took Spanish this year for some reason, and they said if i do good on the test for German i can skip German one and go right to German 2, but i don’t remember some things from intro German, so is there any online website were i can learn German for free just to help me catch up over the summer. thank you so much!
and also, i tried finding flash cards but, of course everything is just them speaking and no picture, so if you could help me find some images of the word, thanks so much
Check out www.livemocha.com or www.busuu.com. They are kind of like Rosetta Stone but they are free. I like the busuu site a little better (it’s a little younger feeling). You sign up and tell the languages you speak and those you want to learn. There are activities to practice vocabulary, reading, writing and speaking. You get feedback from native speakers and there are opportunities to live chat with native speakers. And you can go at your own pace and it saves your progress. Hoep this helps! Viel Glueck!
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Learn German Course – Which German Learning Course is Right for You?
Internet and multimedia technologies have revolutionized the way people can learn German on their own. Previously, the most you could look forward to beyond a book of lists and quizzes was the occasional audio or video cassette. Searching online, however, shows the wide range of new resources being made available to consumers. Now, a German course can include a host of learning tools, interactive media, and even live conversation that turns your computer into an immersive language lab.
When trying to find the right package, you should look for how the materials go beyond what you could get in a book or even audio course. Just about any German instruction package will have books, lessons, glossaries, grammar charts, vocabulary lists, and even audio samples. But you should wait until you find a company that is invested in using the latest technology to be sure that you are getting real value for your money.
Any up-to-date German course should encourage you to learn by including a number of interactive software packages and even games. Studies have shown that you retain vocabulary better if you learn it in a dynamic environment instead of just memorizing lists of information. You want a piece of software that encourages you to think about what you know instead of just recall it. This is particularly true in German since it is just as important to know how to manipulate your vocabulary (declining nouns and adjectives, conjugating verbs, etc.) as it is to know the basic dictionary definition.
Good software packages should also allow you to organize what you know in a number of ways like designing your own flashcards, adding custom pictures and notes, etc. The best German courses allow you to incorporate these notes into the games so that your review is truly personalized to your own style of memorization.
You should also look for a package that combines speaking, writing, and reading, since neglecting any aspect of using a language will undermine your work. A nice combination of reading and listening exercises is best, ideally where you can switch back and forth in order to keep yourself on your toes.
Perhaps most important, however, is that you find a German course that allows you to make use of the internet’s interactive capabilities. Any course that encourages an online community in forums or internet chatting is a real plus since you can communicate in real time with other learners and even native speakers. Some of the best German courses even offer a staff of online tutors who are there to help you not only with software problems, but also any language questions you might have as well.
All of this might seem like a lot to ask of a single independent German course, but technology is constantly raising the bar on what you should expect from foreign language instruction materials. Wait to purchase a package until you find one that will make sure you use your time and effort in the most efficient manner possible to help you reach your goal of learning German.
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Are you looking for an affordable german course that will teach you speak german fast? Alex Aldridge is a native german professor and has been teaching the german language for over 10 years. His website offers free tips on how to speak german fast and efficiently: www.germanlingo.net