The festive environment created by the Bavarian young couples was a thrilling and unexpected experience.
While all this was going on, I had to leave the main hall to look for a washroom.
I was told to walk straight forward a few more steps to locate it.
I soon saw one marked 'Herr', which immediately triggered the memory of the word 'her' in English language.
Thinking it was to be avoided, I started moving away from it quickly to go for the one adjoining it.
The two ladies talking to each other near the door entrance looked at me coming in their direction and started screaming loudly.
It was most embarrassing moment for me, but certainly a sure indication that I should haves gone to the one that was just ignored by me.
Being in a rush I had made a mistake inadvertently, as 'Her' is sometimes used in North America for ladies washroom.
The similar sounding 'Herr' means exactly opposite in German language.
This was as a great learning experience, as it illustrated clearly how a similar sounding word could mean something entirely different in another language.
When I returned, the beer festivitivity and dancing was still goining on.
Soon Lavinia and I decided to return to our hotel, to have some sleep before resuming our journey next morning.
We had seen ourselves, and confirmrd later on, that Bavarians are known as some of the world's most beer-loving people.
While starting our hotel the next day, the receptionist told us that the group drinking of last night was a prelude to the Oktoberfest festival.
And what they wore while dancing were the Bavarian costume and their beer was the traditional Bavarian Beer.
We were driving on Autobohn again and were soon in the outskirts of Munich located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps and the capital of Bavaria.
Bavarian sociability is best experienced at the Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival which attracts around six million visitors every year.
Taking place each year it starts in the middle of September and runs through the beginning of October.
The festival is full of fun: singing, drinking and dancing while bands of all sorts play.
Large amounts drunk during the festival tend to create some problems with young people, who overestimate their ability to handle such amounts of alcohol.
The especially drunk patrons, often called "Bierleichen" (German for "beer corpses"), are regularly brought by staff to a medical tent where drunks and the sick are treated.
The first "Oktoberfest" took place in 1810, to commemorate the marriage of the Bavarian Crown Prince.
Since 1950, there has been a traditional opening for the festival: A twelve gun salute, and the tapping of the first keg of Oktoberfest beer, at 12:00 by the Mayor of Munich, with the cry "O'zapft is!" ("It's tapped!" in the Austro-Bavarian dialect.
Statistically, beer consumption per capita in Bavaria is higher than in the rest of Germany.
Bavarians are particularly proud of their purity law as a tradition, initially established by the Duke of Bavaria in 1516.
According to this law, only three ingredients are allowed in beer: water, barley, and hops.
