Monday, 6 June 2016

Lubeck - Monday

Monday was supposed to be stormy, but the morning certainly wasn't. I went walking around the canals surrounding the Altstadt. This was mostly where I'd already been on the boat trip.





I went inside the Lubecker Dom, the cathedral.






Continuing on around the canals, and back to the area near the Holstentor.




Some more photos from within the Altstadt.

St Stifti Church (the one I climbed)


These were huge!
Heilige Geist Krankenhaus, now a retirement home





An Erdbeerhof -  a stall selling only strawberries! I saw a couple of these, plus one for asparagus.

Not sure what this building is. It's near the Hanseatic Museum, but I don't think it's part of it. The next five photos are of this same building.






On Tuesday morning, I made a quick trip to the Marienkirche, another very large church in Lübeck. There's a cute devil on a bench outside. Legend has it he helped build the church, not knowing what it was. He was so upset when it was completed and he found out what it was that he threatened to destroy it. To stop him, the locals built a bar nearby, complete with alcohol, and the devil was happy with that.






These bells remain where they landed when the church was destroyed in WWII
And a final shot of the Holstentor as I was leaving. This time, I walked around the other side. And, yes - it's as crooked as it looks!

The Leaning Tor of Holsten! (except Tor means gate)

Wednesday, 1 June 2016

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.