It is now exactly one week ago, when I tried to escape my duties at home for university and travelled into the so called ‘Ruhrpott’ to Dortmund (located close to Cologne). With this visit I continued visiting friends who turned their back on their hometown and moved some where else to study.

DO-Travel-Insight No.1: I desperately need a navigation system.

After some worried words, I borrowed a navigation system from a friend. It told me the way so easy and awesome that I did not manage to get lost once. The times are over, where I glued a map to the steering wheel. One thing for sure – it is safer!

Friday afternoon I arrived there and after all the friendly greetings we strolled around the area.

There we stumbled over a gigantic Asian supermarket that sold every kind of Asian food and ingredient you can think of. Rice and glass noodles in three pound packages, wasabi nuts and chili sauces in small, big and even bigger containers. Luckily, this store is not around the corner from where I live, otherwise I would be broke within a month. Lasagne was our dinner, to strengthen us for our evening plans. We went to semester end concert at the University – with a very unusual conductor. No matter how I would attempt to describe him, they would all not reflect his craziness.

Saturday then complete confusion: I woke up thinking it was 8:30am – but it actually was 11am! Has been a long time since that happened. At first had breakfast and a cappuccino, then did the obligatory hours of studying. DO-Travel-Insight No.2: Your conscientiousness follows you everywhere! Afterwards we walked downtown – Reinoldi church (supposedly THE meeting point in Dortmund), shopping area, opera house (which reminded me a little of Sydney’s) and the main train station. Unfortunately all in drizzling rain. To warm up again we had homemade hot chocolate and chocolate mousse, while bedging out with three movies.

And then, on Sunday, it was the big day: German Bundesliga soccer game Dortmund against Frankfurt! After a short disorientation in the stadium, we found our seats in the South-West part in section 38 – right by the Dortmund fans.

DO-Travel-Insight No.3: I’m a mascott for my home team, while being in the other teams section. Because after a thrilling game, Frankfurt won 3:2!! Yeah! The stadium itself is amazing – the atmosphere and coulisse with 70.400 fans (and that was not even sold out!). Directly after the game I headed back home through icky weather – a mixture of snow and rain – since university was calling for me right the next day.

All in all, Dortmund is a cute little town – alone the stadium is worth a visit!