Airport Series: Munich

Instead of a description of the perfectly generic airport of Munich a quote of the great Douglas Adams about airports in general:

"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs."

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988)

Pair of brown shoes - which are longing for being back in their shoe rack in a cozy home in Berlin :-)

Munich, on a frozen night

I meant to take lots of pictures of the fine old city of Munich, capital of Bavaria, but I only managed to take just one. Minus 20 Celsius and a freezing wind made sightseeing a torture, the light was surprisingly low, too,...maybe next time during daylight hours in summer.. 

Colorless South Pole Days

Only to post at least ANYTHING here, I went out to take some pictures. Here's all I found, Berlin's not exactly photographer's paradise these days...

Fluffy snow flakes on a car's top...

 ...and the river is frozen...

 ..only ice breaker ships instead of the sightseeing boats..

 ..and this pictures quite perfectly sums it all up: winter melancholia..