Witten and Dortmund

On Friday after the conference, we went to visit Peder, a friend of The Geek and her mother. This is his house, which contains three suites, in case you were thinking, as I first did, that this is a very large house for one person.
This is a very cool way to check who is knocking at your door. They really had style in the 1880s.

A street in Witten.

This is downtown Dortmund. No signs of a recession here.

The store in the center is called Wormland. It is not, as I first thought, a composting store. They seem to sell fashions and music to young (twenty-somthing) trendy people. (While I may once have been young, I have rarely been trendy).

BurgerKing can live in an old building, but in Germany they have very strict rules about how much you can change the exterior. St John NB has similar rules for its historic area as well. It is nice to see that they cannot modernize an old building or area just to sell burgers.

And graffiti, unfortunately the only language that knows no borders. The few places we did not see graffiti were Buren and Musselkanaal.