With airfares the way they are at the moment it seems overseas travel is still a bit of sa pipe dream for many people.
But Toowoomba's Concordia Lutheran College is offering you the next best thing this Saturday by b4ringing Germany’s Oktoberfest to Toowoomba.
The annual celebration of all things Bavarian will unfold right in the middle of Concordia’s Stephen St campus.
Yes, there’ll be Brattwurst and beer - but there’ll be so much more than that, as event coordinator Emma Pukallus explained to the ABC’s David Iliffe.