Saturday, October 4, 2025 @ 7:34 PM in 2025 Oktoberfest Trip
Sleep last night still wasn't great, but we had nowhere to be this morning so took it fairly easy in getting ready. I ran out and grabbed some more yogurt for breakfast and then we headed to the train station to catch the S8 to Herrsching. We got on the train pretty quick and then it emptied out pretty quickly after the first few stops. We had almost an hour train ride to get to the station and I almost fell asleep a few times. Once in Herrsching, we started the walk up to the Andechs monastery where they have a brewery and biergarten.
It took about an hour to do the walk from town to the monastery. The hike itself was pretty nice. It was mostly on wide paths through some thick forests. There were a decent amount of people hiking up there too. The elevation gain was pretty significant with a lot of steep stairs to climb. While we were hiking, the sun broke through the clouds and we had a really beautiful day while there.
At the monastery, Ben and I took some photos then made our way down to the biergarten. We ordered some food first (two sausages and some potato salad) and then had a half liter of beer, which was the Andechs Special Helles. Both Ben and I wanted to take it easy on the drinking today, so we just had the one beer then started making our way back to town where we'd get on the S8 back to Munich.
The hike down was also really nice. We took a different route that wound through some big valleys. When we made it back into town, we timed it just right and got on a train that was set to leave in a few minutes. The train ride back was pretty uneventful until we got to a station about 5 stops away from where we needed to go. Apparently someone wandered onto the tracks somewhere around the Hirschgarten stop and they had to shut it all down until they figured out what happened. We sat on the train for a few minutes then decided to get out and walk to the Hirschgarten since it was pretty close by.
The park was really nice and had a lot of different playgrounds. By now the weather was turning again and it was starting to get really cloudy. The park was still really nice and relaxing to walk through. I called Sam and Dakotah to catch up while there too. We saw some of the deer that live in the park, walked through the biergarten and then made our way to one of the trams that would take us really close to our hotel.
The tram was packed and it was pretty uncomfortable riding it the six or so stops we needed. By the time we got off, it was starting to sprinkle so we came back to the hotel to drop off some of our stuff, then went back out to the grocery store to grab some snacks for the train ride to Salzburg tomorrow. After killing a little time, we went to dinner at a place called Mama Bao which had some really good Biang Biang noodles and starters. We split some smashed cucumber salad, popcorn chicken and fungi salad dishes. I had a ginger lemon fizz with dinner which tasted really good. They must have used a lot of honey because you could really taste it in there. Both of us sufficiently full, we came back to the hotel again where we're calling it a night.
It's been raining on and off and neither one of us wanted to drink more, so chilling out is a nice option. I also walked over 23,000 steps today, the most of this whole trip. I'm looking forward to the train tomorrow so we don't feel like we're forced to walk as much. The train tomorrow goes directly from Munich to Salzburg, but we're going to make a pitstop in a town called Traunstein where they have a well known brewery. We'll have a beer and lunch there before catching the train again all the way to Salzburg. Unfortunately the weather looks like it's turned for the trip and we're going to have a lot of rain for the rest of the time we're in Europe. Fingers crossed it doesn't rain too hard and we can still get out and walk around and enjoy the sights.
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Tags: germany, oktoberfest, munich
Posted from: Germany
