the cable ride over the Ekka 
What the heck is the ekka?? Everybody was talking about the ekka....it means exhibition, an exciting week here in Brissi, especially for kids. It's like a huge "Volksfest" but not only with all the rides,
that was quite impressive how quickly they chopped those trunks, especially the ones that had to work their way up to the top. They even choped the holes for their "steps" themselves.... they were swinging these huge axes like feathers....and the men were such units, massive fellows
like horseriding, "tree-choping" - forgot the term LOL, so it's quite a big thing. Its origin comes from the rural area as far as I've understood. The farmers bring all their animals for assessing who has the best and fittest and that sort of stuff.
We went there with Sally and Shaun. Sally trains with me Beachvolleyball- I'm not training at the moment though :( - and Ryan probably plays next season with Shaun. Sally was superexcited, Shaun only "allowes" her to go to the ekka every 2 years- haha- and she just went off and showed me -the ekka-virgin- around and introduced me to all the must-haves.
It's really good fun but bloody expensive,pf. There was a huge hall where you can get showbags, no not only showbags, SHOWBAGS, that's apparently THE thing to go to or better to buy at the ekka. All sorts of different brands for sweets (ALL of them), drinks, footy teams, magazines....just everything....offer their very showbags.What they are? Well, actually they are "only" plastic bags with 2 chocis, a lolly, a drink or whatever combo from that brand and then you can say you have a SHOWBAG from Cadbury (Aussi-Milka) for example....:-O cool, ay =)
"Bertie Beatly" is the king under the showbags, it's only some sort of chocolate with some honeycomb crunchies in it and you can't get this during the year, so...REAL special :) everytime I called it "just" chocolate I earned angry looks. Alltogether I couldn't quite understand the fuss about these showbags because you can buy most that stuff in the supermarket...weird...but on our way home in the train everybody was carrying these masses of showbags- must be an Aussie thing.
What you couldn't miss either, was a strawberry sunday...soft-ice-cream with strawberries on the bottom.
And as a savoury must-have there are the Pluto Pups, which are a kind of sausage- thing on a stick and you have it with tomato-sauce- pretty greasy actually but "ekkaish" :-P
spotto....a bavarian flag and "The grill" representing German food, they had sausages and sauerkraut, super exciting- haha- not for me, I wanted my "drei im weckla" ;) nothing can beat nürnberger bratwürste....no way
Thanks Sally it was an aweomse day/night, finally some more Aussie- "culture" Maybe we can sneak out next year and go without the boys LOL
they also have animal shows, different competitions
that was quite impressive how quickly they chopped those trunks, especially the ones that had to work their way up to the top. They even choped the holes for their "steps" themselves.... they were swinging these huge axes like feathers....and the men were such units, massive fellowsWe went there with Sally and Shaun. Sally trains with me Beachvolleyball- I'm not training at the moment though :( - and Ryan probably plays next season with Shaun. Sally was superexcited, Shaun only "allowes" her to go to the ekka every 2 years- haha- and she just went off and showed me -the ekka-virgin- around and introduced me to all the must-haves.
It's really good fun but bloody expensive,pf. There was a huge hall where you can get showbags, no not only showbags, SHOWBAGS, that's apparently THE thing to go to or better to buy at the ekka. All sorts of different brands for sweets (ALL of them), drinks, footy teams, magazines....just everything....offer their very showbags.What they are? Well, actually they are "only" plastic bags with 2 chocis, a lolly, a drink or whatever combo from that brand and then you can say you have a SHOWBAG from Cadbury (Aussi-Milka) for example....:-O cool, ay =)
"Bertie Beatly" is the king under the showbags, it's only some sort of chocolate with some honeycomb crunchies in it and you can't get this during the year, so...REAL special :) everytime I called it "just" chocolate I earned angry looks. Alltogether I couldn't quite understand the fuss about these showbags because you can buy most that stuff in the supermarket...weird...but on our way home in the train everybody was carrying these masses of showbags- must be an Aussie thing.
What you couldn't miss either, was a strawberry sunday...soft-ice-cream with strawberries on the bottom.
And as a savoury must-have there are the Pluto Pups, which are a kind of sausage- thing on a stick and you have it with tomato-sauce- pretty greasy actually but "ekkaish" :-P
spotto....a bavarian flag and "The grill" representing German food, they had sausages and sauerkraut, super exciting- haha- not for me, I wanted my "drei im weckla" ;) nothing can beat nürnberger bratwürste....no way
Thanks Sally it was an aweomse day/night, finally some more Aussie- "culture" Maybe we can sneak out next year and go without the boys LOL
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