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• Auerdult Market

  This historical market festival (held from Oct 16 – 24) is little known to tourists but has fair prices and appealing wares....

• Football

  Berlin may be the capital of Germany, Frankfurt its financial centre, but when it comes to football, there is really only one town that matters: Munich, and its all-conquering Bayern team, which usually wins the German championship by some distance....

• Riversurfing

  
  One of Munich’s most surprising summertime attractions is the riversurfing on the Eisbach river that flows though the Englischer Garten....

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• A trip to Burghausen

  For sheer contrast to the Munich metropolis, how about a day or two away in deepest rural Bavaria? One of the prettiest little towns in Oberbayern but virtually unheard of by most foreign visitors is Burghausen....

• The night of 25,000 blades

  Blade Night sounds like it could be fencing or it could refer to the night of the undead, when you can fulfill your vampire slaying fantasies while attempting to be as sexy as Wesley Snipes....

• St. Patrick's Day

  What started in 1996 as a party by a small rabble of Irish expats, now has turned into a huge party and parade of 15,000 participants and spectators....

• Kocherlball

  Pleasure would be boring without the pain, and one of Munich’s best traditional festivals involves getting up early (and we mean early) to dress up and head to the park to dance polkas and drink beer together with thousands of others as the sun rises....

• Oktoberfest

  
  You'll either lovit it or hate it, but every year it happens. Be a part of it this year and get it right with our special insider's guide....

• Skiing

  
  Some beautiful German villages near the Austrian border offer great skiing in stunning landscapes. Read more here....

• Lenten & Easter traditions

  In the Catholic state of Bavaria they take their religious holidays very seriously, which means that shops and offices close on Good Friday (April 9) and Easter Sunday and Monday 11-12 April)....

• The Bavarian Menu

  So you can't tell your weisswurst from your schinken? That's where our handy menu decoder comes in....