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.

Bamberg

1. Bamberg - Tour this World Heritage town's breweries

Berlin Victory Column

2. Berlin - Climb up the Victory Column

Kollhoff Tower

3. Berlin - Get panoramic views from the Kollhoff Tower

Potsdam palaces

4. Berlin - Go and see the palaces of Potsdam

Trabant safari

5. Berlin - Go on a Trabi safari

Berlin Wall

6. Berlin - Go to the Berlin Wall memorial site

Berlin TV Tower

7. Berlin - Have a drink in the TV Tower's revolving restaurant

Berlin Olympic Stadium

8. Berlin - Have a guided tour of the Olympic Stadium*

Reichstag roof restaurant

9. Berlin - Have lunch on the Reichstag roof

World balloon

10. Berlin - See the city from the World Balloon

DDR Museum

11. Berlin - Step back in time at the interactive DDR Museum

Spree boat trip

12. Berlin - Take a boat trip on the Spree

BRLO brewery

13. Berlin - Tour the BRLO craft beer brewery

Tempelhof Airport

14. Berlin - Tour the former Tempelhof Airport

Lemke brewery

15. Berlin - Tour the Lemke craft beer brewery

Union Berlin stadium

16. Tour the Union Berlin stadium*

Hohenschoenhausen Stasi prison

17. Berlin - Visit a former Stasi prison

Charlottenburg Palace

18. Berlin - Visit Charlottenburg Palace

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

19. Berlin - Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

Berlin Stoy bunker

20. Berlin - Visit the Berlin Story bunker

Computer games museum

21. Berlin - Visit the interactive Computer Games Museum

Stasi Museum

22. Berlin - Visit the former Stasi HQ

Everyday Life in the DDR Museum

23. Berlin - Go to the 'Everyday Life in the DDR' museum

Deutschlandmuseum

24. Berlin - Get hands on at the Deutschlandmuseum

Spy Museum

25. Berlin - Visit the interactive Spy Museum

Museum Island

26. Berlin - Spend a day on Museum Island

Berlin Underworlds

27. Berlin - The Underworlds of WWII bunkers and more

Fussball Route Berlin

28. Berlin - Walk the Fussball Route football history trail

Beck's Brewery

29. Bremen - Tour Beck's Brewery & sample their beers

Colditz Castle

30. Colditz - Escape from, I mean visit, Colditz Castle

Koelsch brewery

31. Cologne - Go on a Kölsch brewery tour

Cologne stadium

32. Cologne - Go on a stadium tour*

Cologne Cathedral

33. Cologne - Go up one of the Cologne Cathedral spires

Rhine boat trip

34. Cologne - Take a boat trip on the Rhine

BVB stadium tour

35. Dortmund - Go on a stadium tour*

German Football Museum

36. Dortmund - Visit the German Football Museum

Borusseum

37. Dortmund - Visit the  BVB 'Borusseum'

Dresden overhead railway

38. Dresden - Ride the overhead railway

VW Transparent Factory

39. Dresden - Tour VW's Transparent Factory

Frauenkirche

40. Dresden - Visit the Frauenkirche

Residenzschloss

41. Dresden - See the Green Vault in the Residenzschloss

Diving tank in Duisburg

42. Duisburg - Dive in Europe's biggest indoor diving basin

Altbier

43. Düsseldorf - Go on an Altbier 'safari'

Rhine Tower

44. Düsseldorf - Go up the Rhine Tower

Classic Remise

45. Düsseldorf - See classic cars at the Classic Remise

Düsseldorf Rhine boat trip

46. Düsseldorf - Take a cruise on the Rhine

Wartburg

47. Eisenach - Visit World Heritage Wartburg Castle

Burg Eltz

48. Burg Eltz - Take a day trip to this fairytale castle

Zollverein

49. Essen - Visit the former Zollverein colliery complex

Städel Museum

50. Frankfurt - Admire art at the Städel Musuem art gallery

Main Tower

51. Frankfurt - See the city from the top of the Main Tower

Main cruise

52. Frankfurt - Take a cruise on the River Main

Apfelwein Wagner

53. Frankfurt - Try the local scrumpy-style cider

Frankfurt cidermaker

54. Frankfurt - Cidermaker tour and tasting

Arena AufSchalke

55. Bremen - Go on a stadium tour

Millerntour

56. Hamburg - Do the St. Pauli stadium tour*

Old Elbe Tunnel

57. Hamburg - Go through the old Elbe tunnel

Hamburg Speicherstadt

58. Hamburg - Take a boat trip of harbour & 'warehouse city'

St Pauli craft beer

59. Hamburg - Take a craft beer tour of St. Pauli

Miniatur Wunderland

60. Hamburg - Visit the world's biggest model railway

Heidelberg funicular railway

61. Heidelberg - Ride the funicular railway to the castle

Heidelberg Neckar trip

62. Heidelberg - See town and castle from the Neckar

Hockenheim

63. Hockenheim - Take a tour of the F1 circuit

Audi Ingolstadt

64. Ingolstadt - Visit the Audi museum and factory

The Rhine at Koblenz

65. Koblenz - Take a cruise on the Rhine

Leipzig Trabi tour

66. Leipzig - Drive to the Battle of Nations Monument in a Trabi

Leipzig BMW plant

67. Leipzig - Go on a BMW plant guided tour

Nikolaikirche Leipzig

68. Leipzig - The Nikolaikirche, a hub of popular revolt in 1989

Runde Ecke

69. Leipzig - Visit the city's former Stasi HQ

Allianz Arena

70. Munich - Go on a tour of the Allianz Arena*

Neuschwanstein

71. Munich - Take a day trip to Neuschwanstein Castle

Isar rafting

72. Munich - Take a log raft ride down the Isar

Paulaner brewery

73. Munich - Tour the Paulaner brewery & sample their beers

Weihenstephan brewery

74. Munich - Weihenstephan brewery, the world's oldest

BMW Welt

75. Munich - Visit BMW World and Museum

Dachau

76. Munich - Visit Dachau Concentration Camp

FC Bayern museum

77. Munich - Visit the Bayern Munich museum

Erdinger brewery

78. Munich - Visit the Erdinger brewery & try their beers

Hofbräuhaus

79. Munich - Have a litre of beer on a Hofbräuhaus tour

Olympic Stadium roof walk

80. Munich - Walk over the Olympic Stadium roof

Neviges Pilgrimage Church

81. Neviges - Into brutalist architecture? See this church

Nürburgring

82. Nürburgring - Visit the famous racetrack

Nuremberg rally grounds

83. Nuremberg - Visit the former Nazi Party rally grounds

Oberhausen Topgolf

84. Oberhausen - Enjoy a session of Topgolf

Oberhausen gasometer

85. Oberhausen Gasometer  - Europe's tallest exhibition hall

Quedlinburg

86. Quedlinburg - Visit this World Heritage town

Rothenburg ob der Tauber

87. Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Well-preserved Medieval town

Weissenhof

88. Stuttgart - Weissenhof architectural styles & museum

Football and wine

89. Stuttgart - Go on a football and wine tour

Stuttgart TV Tower

90. Stuttgart - Go up the TV Tower

Funicular railway

91. Stuttgart - Take a ride on the funicular railway

Cogwheel railway

92. Stuttgart - Take a ride on the Zacke cogwheel railway

Mercedes museum

93. Stuttgart - Go to the Mercedes-Benz Museum

Porsche museum

94. Stuttgart - Visit the Porsche Museum

Tram museum

95. Stuttgart - Take a look around Tram World

Wine museum

96. Stuttgart - Visit the Wine Museum

Völklingen iron works

97. Völklingen - Visit the World Heritage former iron works site

Lutherstadt Wittenberg

98. Wittenberg - Visit the Luther City

VW Autostadt

99. Wolfsburg - See VW past, present & future at Autostadt

Wuppertal Schwebebahn

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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