Trier, Hauptmarkt and McDonald's

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The Hauptmarkt (Main Market), one of Germany’s most beautiful town squares, is located a few blocks from the Porta Nigra on Simeonstrasse, the pedestrian shopping street. Trier’s Market Cross was erected in 958 AD on a granite pedestal dating from Roman times, and the Market Fountain, created in the year 1595, incorporates statues that symbolize justice, fortitude, temperance, and prudence. Germany’s oldest pharmacy, Löwenapotheke (Lion’s Pharmacy) was founded here in the 1600s, and a town-house nearby, built in the 1700s, is the birthplace of Karl Marx.

Yes, that is a familiar lovely lady in the foreground.
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Among the several sidewalk cafes in the Hauptmarkt, one can be recognized by the ever-popular Golden Arches — familiar food and drink, and there are clean restrooms on the second floor. If we are looking for a place to get a bite to eat without spending a long time, McDonald’s is the place to be. We often stop for French Fries, a Coke, and an Ice Cream Sundae, and Emmy likes the McRib.

More than anything else, we like their clean restrooms, available at no cost. Come to think of it, at two places in Belgium, there was an elderly lady who kept the “McDonald’s” clean, and expected a few cents for her trouble, or rather to relieve our troubles. As we have said before, we don’t know if this custom is a way to keep the restrooms clean, or to keep the old ladies employed — it does both!

Yes, that is a familiar lovely lady at the window, in the center of the photo.