At MUC: One Of Our Favorite Airports

An efficient ride to the airport on No. 8 S-Bahn - albeit at 10.40 Euros each more expensive than our previous visit - a pleasant check-in, and a simple walk through a metal detector with our shoes on at the security checkpoint . Of course, we'll have to go through the more intensive U.S.-mandated screening at the gate, followed by TSA screening in Chicago when we transfer to our ORD-SEA leg.

In the meantime, we're relaxing in the LH Senator Lounge, one of our favorite places when it's neither too crowded nor too excessively hot - it's always going to be too warm for us, unless their heating system breaks down.