I’ve still got a few more days in Paris, but couldn’t help get re-excited about Munich. After a bout with a serious cold and a defunct keyboard, I am finally getting better and now own a wireless keyboard that may seem like a completely frivolous purchase now, but won’t be when (by when, I really mean if) I get my iPad or the new iMac. In the meantime, my computer setup looks a little funny, but I couldn’t be happier to start having decent conversations online and to send proper e-mails again.*

I chose to go to Munich this year largely on impulse and on its #1 rating in Monocle’s Quality of Life/Best Cities survey. I remember arriving at the train station last year in Interlaken, Switzerland not knowing a word of Swiss-German — I loved it. I can’t wait to arrive at Flughafen München-Franz Josef Strauß and just die of incomprehension. I also can’t wait to arrive because I’d like to see if it rivals my love for SFO or O’Hare. Aside from the linguistical excitement, I’m mostly just excited to see some modern architecture, some straight lines, and damnit, some color!

*Didn’t want to indulge too much in one paragraph, so I just thought I’d add that I finally caved and bought Mad Men on iTunes so I can catch up with the rest of the (sartorially-inclined) world.