GERMANY

Wednesday 6th August 2014  Day 26 (day 11 of the cruise).

Warnemunde and Rostock - Germany. Today was delightful.

Warnemunde has been a sleepy little fishing village for hundreds of years but in the 19^th century was discovered by the crowds! It has great beaches and grew into a major seaside resort town. It was absolutely charming with its canal running from the main river mouth down through the main area and a train coming from nearby Rostock and therefore everywhere.

 Fishing boats come directly into the canal, unload into their shops, then cook and sell their supper fresh produce. The water is lined with stalls. Just behind was the promenade filled with cafes, restaurants and trinket shops.

 This blog really needs ‘Smellavision” as this place was the best smelling places ever. Ocean, fish, coffee, smoke houses……..

Thousands of holiday makers flood in from the train – as always loaded up with picnic baskets, kids and dogs and head to the beach.

This guy played awesome music on the glasses.

 After a few hours we did a river trip upstream to the town/city of Rostock, a medieval town, another of the very important towns on the Hanseatic trading route.

And it was absolutely beautiful as well.  We wandered around and looked at the really interesting and very different architecture, the old wall and rampart, and old buildings for the medieval times.

And guess what????  The Tall ship race circuit had caught up with us from Bergen. The harbour was filling with Tall Ships and the surrounding area was setting up for what looks like it is going to be a huge few days of festivities.

The trip up and down the river was great with much to see.

Very industrial in parts with huge ship yards.

 

Very expensive looking both houses and units lined both sides of the river.

Swamp lands and wind generators!!!

We wandered around, found one of Sarah’s favourite shops and did a few quick purchases, ate some smoked herring which was glorious and has some really strong beer.

This metal recycling place was working, and the noise was amazing. We were sure that just out of our site there were 'Transformers' having a huge fight.

Every one was here!  Two ships, a frigate, tall ships, ferries, sail boats, SAR, Everyone!

Brilliant day.