last chance for Christmas - today only....!

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest
From this Saturday onwards it's Oktoberfest time, and I'll miss it AGAIN.....! Just look at some of these details....almost frightening, but only almost...!
Close to 7 million litres of beer are sold and (almost all) drunk..!
Around 6 million people visit the 'wies'n' (German for the meadow where it takes place)

Oktoberfest figures (2010)[edit source | editbeta]

• Area: 0.42 km² (103.78 acres)
• Seats in the festival halls: approx. 100,000
• Visitors: 6.4 million
• Beer: appr. 7,100,000 liters (151,200 liters of alcohol)
• Wine: 89,259 liters
• Sparkling wine: 37,733 liters
• Coffee and tea: 245,335 liters
• Water and lemonade: 1,028,522 half liters
• Chicken: 505,901 units
• Pork sausages: 119,302 pairs
• Fish: 40,850 kg
• Pork knuckles (haxen): 69,293 units
• Oxen: 119 units
• Expenditure of electricity: 2.96 million kWh (as much as 14% of Munich's daily requirements or as much as a four person family will need in 52 years and 4 months)
• Expenditure of gas: about 198,489 m³
• Expenditure of water: about 107,489 m³ (as much as 27% of Munich's daily requirements )
• Waste: 678 t (2004)
• Toilets: about 980 seats, more than 878 meters of urinals and 17 for disabled persons
• Phone booths: 83, also for international credit cards
• Lost property: about 4000 items, among them 260 pairs of glasses, 200 mobile phones, wedding rings, and even 500 crutches.^{[15] (Details from wikipaedia)}

 Yes - you're going to need a few pounds, apart from the beer prices and food prices, there are hotel costs...the cheapest I found from London for 3 days with B&B was 810GBP......just a touch extreme!
Think I'll just stay home and watch it on the TV - that will make one less among the over 6 million visitors....- wonder if they'll notice?

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