Prospects positive

What could possibly be the significance of chocolate icecream? 

Partly it has to do with the fact that after the winter break, Eiscafé Venezia is open again. I have always taken this as a sign that we have the worst behind us and that we can look ahead with a certain hopeful optimism.

Not that this winter was particularly severe in Munich. Only in January was there snow and ice on Schwabing's pavements and for the whole month I was haunted by the fear that I might slip, fall and be injured in a manner that a man approaching his seventy-seventh birthday should avoid at all costs.

Survived that!

Hence yesterday I was free to look ahead, to outings for my habitual beer-and-espresso break at Kurfürstenplatz. Every year I resolve to break that habit at least once, by ordering icecream and a Coca Cola. Hence yesterday's excellent chocolate ice set a marker for 2017!

There was also something to celebrate, Jessi's arrival in town for a long weekend. And the weather forecast promises a precocious 18 degrees for my birthday tomorrow.

Things are definitely looking up!