I’m in Wilmington NC with the family for the Azalea Festival, and I hear rumors there’s a beer garden this year. According to the Star News Online:
For the first time in more than a decade, an Azalea Festival-sponsored beer garden will be a part of the festival. Beer, wine and karaoke will be available under the Water Street parking deck at Water and Grace streets.

I’m not so sure about the karaoke, but I’ll check it out anyway.

Most people don’t think of the Oktoberfest as an event for children, but ultimately it’s a fair, and no one likes rides more than children (or drunk adults). That and, as I’ve written elsewhere, Germans, or at least Bavarians, don’t think of beergardens and beer halls as places to visit independent of their children. Instead, the beergardens and beer halls are intended for young and old, singles and families, and everything in between.
So perhaps it should surprise no one that the Oktoberfest even has two “family days,” with reduced prices on rides and food. The beer remains full price, I’m …read more