{"id":6284,"date":"2024-09-20T19:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:00:00","slug":"oktoberfest-2024-a-jet-lagged-dinnertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2024\/09\/oktoberfest-2024-a-jet-lagged-dinnertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktoberfest 2024: A Jet Lagged Dinnertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2024\/09\/oktoberfest-2024-a-jet-lagged-dinnertime\/oktoberfest2024day3-5\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6285\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6285\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-5.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to jet lag messing up our eating schedule, and knowing that our tour package will ramp up the Bavarian meals starting Friday, we opted for an inexpensive &#8220;fast food&#8221; dinner Thursday night: we are about 1\/2 km from the Munich Hauptbahnhof (the main train station) so we found a stand that sold lavash flatbread wraps and sat on a bench to watch the busy train traffic for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Then we wandered back to the hotel, stopping at a &#8220;EuroShop&#8221;, the equivalent of a Dollar General. 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Apparently there are dirndl\/lederhosen shops like that on every corner here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2024\/09\/oktoberfest-2024-a-jet-lagged-dinnertime\/oktoberfest2024day3-10\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6290\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-10-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-10-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-10-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-10-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-10.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6291\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2024\/09\/oktoberfest-2024-a-jet-lagged-dinnertime\/oktoberfest2024day3-11\/#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6291\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6291\" src=\"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-11-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-11-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-11-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Oktoberfest2024Day3-11.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view out our hotel window, if we crane our heads around to the left ?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to jet lag messing up our eating schedule, and knowing that our tour package will ramp up the Bavarian meals starting Friday, we opted for an inexpensive &#8220;fast food&#8221; dinner Thursday night: we are about 1\/2 km from the Munich Hauptbahnhof (the main train station) so we found a stand that sold lavash flatbread &#8230; <a title=\"Oktoberfest 2024: A Jet Lagged Dinnertime\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2024\/09\/oktoberfest-2024-a-jet-lagged-dinnertime\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oktoberfest 2024: A Jet Lagged Dinnertime\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[675],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.2.1 - 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