100 things to do during your trip
Sitting outside a bar on the edge of a city's main square is one way to spend time when not at the game. But if you'd like a few other ideas, I've compiled below a list of 100 things to do (originally done for Euro 2024, so focussed mainly on the cities that hosted the tournament).
They range from brewery tours to stadium tours, from computer games to concentration camps, architecture to art, diving to golf and Audi to Porsche.
I hope you find a few things here that you'd like to do. If you have any other ideas that you'd like to share, please send me an e-mail.
1. Bamberg - Tour this World Heritage town's breweries
2. Berlin - Climb up the Victory Column
3. Berlin - Get panoramic views from the Kollhoff Tower
4. Berlin - Go and see the palaces of Potsdam
5. Berlin - Go on a Trabi safari
6. Berlin - Go to the Berlin Wall memorial site
7. Berlin - Have a drink in the TV Tower's revolving restaurant
8. Berlin - Have a guided tour of the Olympic Stadium*
9. Berlin - Have lunch on the Reichstag roof
10. Berlin - See the city from the World Balloon
11. Berlin - Step back in time at the interactive DDR Museum
12. Berlin - Take a boat trip on the Spree
13. Berlin - Tour the BRLO craft beer brewery
14. Berlin - Tour the former Tempelhof Airport
15. Berlin - Tour the Lemke craft beer brewery
16. Tour the Union Berlin stadium*
17. Berlin - Visit a former Stasi prison
18. Berlin - Visit Charlottenburg Palace
19. Berlin - Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
20. Berlin - Visit the Berlin Story bunker
21. Berlin - Visit the interactive Computer Games Museum
22. Berlin - Visit the former Stasi HQ
23. Berlin - Go to the 'Everyday Life in the DDR' museum
24. Berlin - Get hands on at the Deutschlandmuseum
25. Berlin - Visit the interactive Spy Museum
26. Berlin - Spend a day on Museum Island
27. Berlin - The Underworlds of WWII bunkers and more
28. Berlin - Walk the Fussball Route football history trail
29. Bremen - Tour Beck's Brewery & sample their beers
30. Colditz - Escape from, I mean visit, Colditz Castle
31. Cologne - Go on a Kölsch brewery tour
32. Cologne - Go on a stadium tour*
33. Cologne - Go up one of the Cologne Cathedral spires
34. Cologne - Take a boat trip on the Rhine
35. Dortmund - Go on a stadium tour*
36. Dortmund - Visit the German Football Museum
37. Dortmund - Visit the BVB 'Borusseum'
38. Dresden - Ride the overhead railway
39. Dresden - Tour VW's Transparent Factory
40. Dresden - Visit the Frauenkirche
41. Dresden - See the Green Vault in the Residenzschloss
42. Duisburg - Dive in Europe's biggest indoor diving basin
43. Düsseldorf - Go on an Altbier 'safari'
44. Düsseldorf - Go up the Rhine Tower
45. Düsseldorf - See classic cars at the Classic Remise
46. Düsseldorf - Take a cruise on the Rhine
47. Eisenach - Visit World Heritage Wartburg Castle
48. Burg Eltz - Take a day trip to this fairytale castle
49. Essen - Visit the former Zollverein colliery complex
50. Frankfurt - Admire art at the Städel Musuem art gallery
51. Frankfurt - See the city from the top of the Main Tower
52. Frankfurt - Take a cruise on the River Main
53. Frankfurt - Try the local scrumpy-style cider
54. Frankfurt - Cidermaker tour and tasting
55. Bremen - Go on a stadium tour
56. Hamburg - Do the St. Pauli stadium tour*
57. Hamburg - Go through the old Elbe tunnel
58. Hamburg - Take a boat trip of harbour & 'warehouse city'
59. Hamburg - Take a craft beer tour of St. Pauli
60. Hamburg - Visit the world's biggest model railway
61. Heidelberg - Ride the funicular railway to the castle
62. Heidelberg - See town and castle from the Neckar
63. Hockenheim - Take a tour of the F1 circuit
64. Ingolstadt - Visit the Audi museum and factory
65. Koblenz - Take a cruise on the Rhine
66. Leipzig - Drive to the Battle of Nations Monument in a Trabi
67. Leipzig - Go on a BMW plant guided tour
68. Leipzig - The Nikolaikirche, a hub of popular revolt in 1989
69. Leipzig - Visit the city's former Stasi HQ
70. Munich - Go on a tour of the Allianz Arena*
71. Munich - Take a day trip to Neuschwanstein Castle
72. Munich - Take a log raft ride down the Isar
73. Munich - Tour the Paulaner brewery & sample their beers
74. Munich - Weihenstephan brewery, the world's oldest
75. Munich - Visit BMW World and Museum
76. Munich - Visit Dachau Concentration Camp
77. Munich - Visit the Bayern Munich museum
78. Munich - Visit the Erdinger brewery & try their beers
79. Munich - Have a litre of beer on a Hofbräuhaus tour
80. Munich - Walk over the Olympic Stadium roof
81. Neviges - Into brutalist architecture? See this church
82. Nürburgring - Visit the famous racetrack
83. Nuremberg - Visit the former Nazi Party rally grounds
84. Oberhausen - Enjoy a session of Topgolf
85. Oberhausen Gasometer - Europe's tallest exhibition hall
86. Quedlinburg - Visit this World Heritage town
87. Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Well-preserved Medieval town
88. Stuttgart - Weissenhof architectural styles & museum
89. Stuttgart - Go on a football and wine tour
90. Stuttgart - Go up the TV Tower
91. Stuttgart - Take a ride on the funicular railway
92. Stuttgart - Take a ride on the Zacke cogwheel railway
93. Stuttgart - Go to the Mercedes-Benz Museum
94. Stuttgart - Visit the Porsche Museum
95. Stuttgart - Take a look around Tram World
96. Stuttgart - Visit the Wine Museum
97. Völklingen - Visit the World Heritage former iron works site
98. Wittenberg - Visit the Luther City
99. Wolfsburg - See VW past, present & future at Autostadt
100. Wuppertal - Ride the overhead monorail
* Stadium tours
Tours at some stadia may not be available on certain days due to staging or preparing for matches. To date, I have received the following information:
Berlin Olympic Stadium
They WILL be offering tours during the Euros, but not two days before or one day after a game.
Dortmund
The museum WILL be open and tours WILL be given. More details to follow.
Cologne
They don't know yet (as of February).
Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Gelsenkirchen
No tours.
Hamburg Millerntor
St Pauli's ground. Being used for training, but they expect to give tours. More details to follow.
Extra time
If you have any other ideas that you'd like to share, please drop me a line by e-mail. I'll add a few more here in due course.
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