You can explore the surrouding near by walking distance a few cafés and restaurants. We can recommend a few restaurants in the city center of Darmstadt as well. You can reach nature within walking distance as well as the so called "Bergstraße" (good bike trip) to Odenwald. Also there is a "Streuobstwiese" for children, hiking routes to "Melita-Fountain" Prinzenberg, Nature Reserve Kühkopf reachable very well with bike and not a lot of steep. In Darmstadt there are 2 cinemas, the hundertwasser house, shopping possibility, restaurants, cafés, bars, Events, theater (including musicals, Opera), museums, Herrengarten, beer garden, Oberwaldhaus (horse back riding for children, mini gold, paddling boat, playground, bike roots, restaurants), World Natural Heritage near Oberwaldhaus, Rosenhöhe, Climbing forest and hall and various more.