Biggest bonfire ever - 400 years since Guy Fawkes - Munich

Hello all!

Remember, remember the fifth of November...?

If you know the next line, then I dont see why you shouldn´t come and join the bonfire party on Saturday.



The GEA bonfire takes place out of town, in Mariabrunn near Dachau. Its a lot of fun, a whole afternoon and evening if you want. The real bonfire-builders go out in car-sharing from Scheidplatz at 2pm. If you can only come along later - especially for fireworks at 7:30pm - you will have to make your own way there; dont be too late and miss the fun. We sell Glühwein, soup, sausages and things from a catering tent in the field, to keep us glowing.

Or how about Friday evening? Thats when we make the "Guy" at the club "Stammtisch". If you want to come and help, get the details from our website.

Note: this is the 400 year anniversary of the "gunpowder plot": so Saturday´s event should be a big one!

Sue

GEA Bonfire & Frireworks Celebration

- 2pm Saturday 5th November (fireworks 7.30pm)
- @ Mariabrunn, near Dachau
- Free entrance - donations welcome
- Details: gea-muc.de / guy 2005

Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason should ever be forgot.

l went last year and it was good - gluhwein, cakes and parkin, fireworks,
big fire etc. - so l defo recommed it
but note - it's in a field in the middle of nowhere on the way to dachau. A real bugger to find (even if you have a car) but it's great to have a bonfire on 5th Nov

We're thinking about going to see the fireworks and then to watch the Catholic traitor being burn to death (*).

Does anyone want a lift (2 or 3 places free)?

(*) - when written like this, it does make you wonder how "Firework night" ever got classified as good honest family entertainment (especially here is Bavaria!)?

Ah great ! I was going to be gutted to miss bonfire night. & being car-less I would very much appreciate a lift.. I'll swap you a lift for a beer? & if there is still another spare lift-place I will ask my friend Katie. Fireworks!

Laura

I think that this is a terrorist event and should be banned. This probably rates up there with the old Irish men taunting little 12yo Catholic school girls on their way to school. Enough of the bullshit already.

Indeed, I should probably take offence or somesuch and nip around and kneecap the lot of you. Or bring marshmallows or something.

just hopin that eurovol was taking the piss ??

love a bonfire and treacle toffee and parkin, great fun, especially for the kids

The GEA do make a nice bonfire, though I find it rather inconveniently far out of town.

"Guy Fawkes' night isn't harmless fun: it's a celebration of torture and religious persecution" - http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,532...-103677,00.html

Is this Munich's branch of the KKK? Pathetic really...

Cos it was a Protestant Goverment and they didn`t want any left footers running the country, by the way I am one too1

Either that or a celebration of the first foiling of a terrorist action! Depends which side of the fence you're looking from!

Durring Thatcher's reign you used to see "Guy Fawkes where are you, when we need you" graffitti in the UK around this time of year.

Is this a tt thing?

Yes and no. Bonfires are great and celebrating a seasonal spirit is also great (I celebrate Christmas, but more as a celebration of the spirit and not in the biblical sense).
I just have the feeling that this celebration is far too often associated with the connotations of the original event that caused the tradition in the first place. It seems very British to hold a grudge for far too long. There is something disturbing about that.
Now if it is just an excuse to party hardy, then go for it, but leave the devil out of the details. That tends to spoil the fun.