Day Trip to Dortmund

We made a stop on our way from Prague to Paris to visit Dortmund, Germany. Dortmund is home to the Borussia Dortmund soccer club, Nathan's favorite team. It was his special wish to visit the city and stadium, so we got off our night train early in the morning, left our bags in the station, and enjoyed a day in Dortmund. 

Logo of flowers

We started off by going to a giant park called Westfalen. Puma had revealed the new jersey design for the soccer club by making a giant version out of flowers. After a certain date, people were allowed to take the flowers. We arrived the morning after the flowers were free for grabs, so some were gone but quite a few remained. We took photos and grabbed a souvenir yellow marigold. We then went to downtown Dortmund to have breakfast and look around a little. We didn't have time to see much, but it looked like Dortmund was a nice city with a cathedral in the center and a busy pedestrian main street. We then went to the stadium, where we first looked around the museum (or borrouseum as they call it) then went to the souvenir shop. After that we took a stadium tour. Unfortunately, the tour and museum were all in german so I didn't get much out of it, but Nathan loved it. The only bad thing was that we didn't have time to get Nathan's name printed on his new Dortmund jersey that he bought, but besides that it was a good visit. We then got on our train for Paris!

The hallowed grounds of the stadium