After coffee at my Airbnb, I took a brisk walk through the Altstadt. The weather was sunny and chilly. All retail stores were closed on Sunday, which is common in Germany. I actually went on three long walks today, including dinner with an old American friend and his wife and three young children, which was the result of a morning email. I was pleased that they lived close to Münster. We ate at an Italian place, Mocca d’Oro, one of his wife’s favorite restaurants while she was a student at the university.

The food was excellent. I had the dorado. Again, meeting an old friend was the highlight of the day!

Earlier, I stopped at a cafe for a glass of wine and enjoyed watching the locals walking about. It was a bit chilly but sunny.

Walking back from dinner, I snapped a picture of the Cathedral in the twilight. Since Münster is so far north, twilight lingers until 9 in the spring.

I’ll be walking over to the train station for my train to Hamburg in a few minutes. As I said in my last post, Münster is really a beautiful city. Its size makes it walkable and there are plenty of sites to visit, including a number of ancient churches. It’s a city worth spending time in.