Lübeck - Travemünde

According to the weather report, Sunday morning was the only part of the next two days that wasn't raining. So I took the boat to Travemünde at the mouth of the Trave river on the Baltic coast.

Pretty cold to start with, so indoors was the place to be

A small fishing village not far from Lübeck

Windy, too

SS Passat, now a museum vessel

Travemünde!

After a bit less than two hours, we disembarked. It was freezing, windy and foggy. Check out the high-rise apartment building in the background of the next photo.

Very typical for Germany - blankets supplied in outdoor areas of restaurants

Germany's oldest lighthouse, and what is visible of that apartment building

Climbing the lighthouse (of course!)

Looking towards the main part of Travemünde (inland)

Looking towards the sea. Definitely not a beach day!

The pier at the mouth of the Trave

The beach!

Yep! Wet and windy!

Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls

A fantastic children's playground right on the beach

And this is how Germans enjoy their day at the beach - they hire one of these little boxes

Still very windy, 14 degrees with a wind chill factor at 1pm.