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Let us begin this article with a little analysis of this photo. Does anything look unusual to you here? Maybe the trees? Looks like a forest? Even like a river? But surfing on a river? I don’t know about you, but this came as a big news to me when I first heard about it from a friend last week. The photo was taken in Munich, at a small, man-made river stretch called Eisbach, located inside the English Garden. The current here is unusually strong with nice waves making it possible for people to surf here. The river is about 8m wide here and there are places like Eisbachwelle who can teach you to surf here to take you along for a try out. photos by While Munich sort of takes the cake for river surfing with its 2 locations of Eisbach and Flosslande, there are other locations throughout the world such as Kawarau River near Queenstown in New Zealand, the Lachine Rapids in Montreal, Canada or at the Jackson Hole in Wyoming, USA. The sport dates back to the 1970 and while it’s...

Call me vain, but I think dressing up in Oktoberfest clothing is one of the best parts of the entire experience (well, besides the amazing food, activities, drinks, and possible puns of course). But as I’ve learned, these outfits are serious business.  I mean from an outsider’s perspective, it’s easy to think that these are just “Oktoberfest costumes” and any cheap outfit from a Halloween shop will do, but that is 1000% not the case. The traditional clothes worn at Oktoberfest are actually authentic Bavarian attire, worn for everything from formal occasions like church and weddings to arduous physical labour… so calling them “costumes” is not a good idea. They even have an entire parade dedicated to it during the festival! So, if you’ve already sorted out your Oktoberfest accommodation, costs, and are now wondering what to wear, what to buy, where to buy it, here is a guide on Oktoberfest clothing that you don...