Kay and I weren’t strangers to Munich when we arrived for a three-day visit on July 7th of this year. We had been twice before, and it only testifies to the city’s greatness that there was so much more to see and do. I won’t pretend that our first full day was free of frustration, though. The large train station near where we stayed at the Hotel Metropole was surrounded by long ongoing and ever-changing construction that made it a confusing point of reference. We encountered more confusion relearning how to use the U-Bahn system. Finally, a gastrointestinal disorder made it impossible during the morning for me to be too far from a restroom.

Despite these irritants we managed a short visit to crowded Marienplatz with the Neues Rathaus and other icons.
