A BAVARIAN WAITER CARRIES PLATES WITH GRILLED CHICKEN DURING THIS YEAR'S OKTOBERFEST IN MUNICH, 2003-09-28 (photo)

A Bavarian waiter carries plates with grilled chicken during the world biggest beer festival, Oktoberfest in Munich on September 28, 2003. Thousands of beer drinkers from around the world, many in traditional Bavarian lederhosen, flocked to Munich on a sunny Sunday for the largest and most famous beer festival on earth. The 170th Oktoberfest ends on October 5, some six million visitors are expected to have passed through 14 enormous tents, each capable of holding up to 10,000 people at a time, and to have drunk over 5.5 million litres (1.453 million U.S. gallons) of beer. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle MR/MAD