Nuremberg, Germany

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I arrive in Nuremberg to meet with a Russian-Jewish girl I was introduced to via CouchSurfing. She is to be my host in Munich, but has invited me to first attend a Russian music festival in the forests near Nuremberg. I decide it is a neat idea and join her. We meet at the train station and we drive on to the festival.

We arrive late, eat a bit in a communal hall, set up some tents, and sit by the fire to the early hours of the morning singing Russian folk songs. It is the first, and likely last time I will use my sleeping bad on this trip, as the night is cold and the sleeping bag provides little to no warmth.

I wake up at an ungodly early hour, build up the fire again and wait for dawn. We have a communal breakfast, and head out as a group to tour the surrounding forests. We get lost a few times, stumble across an old cemetery, a small castle, and a vast corn-field. All in all a good day out.

Once the festival is over we head out to the castle stumbled upon earlier and take a tour inside. The main thing to strike me is the absurd number of deer heads that decorate the main hall.

Having finished with Nuremberg we begin our drive to Munich.