Nuremburg

Nuremburg impresses with it's pedestrian friendly old city. It's well preserved and clean. Oriented toward tourists, you easily could spend a few days here. I walked all over for a few hours playing photographer. Fun!

I go out for a gluewein and run into a man from Augsburg, he has a thick German accent which I take for that of a local. But during the conversation it turns out that he's actually Russian, that he emigrated to France when he was 13 and that he considers French culture to be his home culture. The conversation slides from German into French, and then he hits me with English and we switch to that, only to switch back to German again. His boyfriend is a conductor for symphonies in Germany. So he tells me all about the places to go and after the Met in New York, according to him the next best is the Bavarian symphony out of Munich, The other one he mentions that is absolute tops is in the small town of Meiningen, as von Below directed there and he is up there with the best in the world.

After a dinner of käse spatzle, on the way to a final check on the festivities, I come by a bar where the music is loud lots of people are having a fun time laughing. They are dancing and I stick my head in the window and dance along and they wave me in. It's a group of 35 older Americans, five of whom are men, they are having the time of their lives just enjoying being out. Great to watch them have fun. I'm after one more drink in the streets but things are shut by 9. Time to go in and sleep.Leggi altro