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Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock October 21st 2010

Bevor euch langweilig wird, hier gleich der nächste Mini-TR mit einem Abstecher in das herbstliche Meck-Pomm. Etwas sorgen bereitete uns die Anzeige des Münchner Flughafens am Vorabend, denn neben einem Typenchange auf CR7 war auch bereits ein Delay von 45 Minuten angezeigt und das mehr als 12h vor Abflug. Das lies ja richtig zu hoffen, auf einen pünktlichen Start. Zumindest hatten wir so genügend Zeit uns entspannt das Frühstück in der SEN-Lounge schmecken zu lassen. Mit dem Bus und der obligatorischen Flughafenrundfahrt ging es dann zu einer Alten bekannten, die uns genau vor 6 Tagen aus Sibiu abgeholt hat ;-) img=http://lh6.ggpht.com/_vYykZYf-JOg/TL9F19W7nvI/AAAAAAAADXs/R-XryrojJM0/s720/Rostock%20002.JPG center Ankunft in RLG: img=http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vYykZYf-JOg/TL9GNgKz-fI/AAAAAAAADXw/CBBTUl5q2Ng/s720/Rostock%20007.JPG center (Die C war übrigens komplett leer, ... read more

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock August 3rd 2009

8/1 Awoke early and wrote my blog and enjoyed a breakfast buffet before leaving for the port. The Eurodam is the newest and largest vessel in the fleet. I was checked in and on board by 11:45 and directed to the dinning room for lunch. Met Alison from Toronto who is on CruiseCritic and Madelyn and Gerry from Michigan. All three were exhausted as they flow in last night and just arrived this AM. Just confirmed my decision to come across one day early. Sitting in the Crow’s Nest and enjoying the view of the harbor while all around me passengers are sacked out for a rest. Expect the cabin to be ready soon and found out that I was up-graded from an inside (NN) to an outside (C). A visit from the upgrade fairy is ... read more

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock July 13th 2008

Our ferry crossing to Rostock in Northern Germany was smooth, and I spent much of the time up on the sun deck. It was quite windy though, and I felt like I was going to blow overboard as Lara took these photos! Rostock has a nice beach, which you can see from the ferry, then you head in to the dock past several really huge cruise liners - our ferry seemed very small in comparison!... read more
Cruise liners moored in Rostock

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock June 18th 2008

18 June: I'M STAYING at the Pension "Zum Alten Fährhaus" (Old Ferry House), a guest house and pub/restaurant on the water looking out over Rostock on the other side. Having just one day to see the town, I take a guided walking tour, figuring it's an efficient way of learning about yet another city along the Baltic coast that once belonged to the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages. Our guide is introduced as a retired professor now a member of the local historical society, and I think how lucky our group is to have such an august person showing us Rostock's landmarks. Well, if he taught his students as he now narrates (mumbles) our tour I'm sure they must have dozed through half his lectures. You can tell by the facial expressions of the half ... read more
Rostock market square
A fly in the ointment
The Fountain of Joy

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock February 3rd 2008

let's go to Greisfwald in Germany on the north sea and later to Gdansk in Poland! Greisfwald we found very quite and empty at midnight without any open petrol station and possibility to buy some foood, but full of cars, riding students in the afternoon..no youth hostels but nice hotels with great service! The weather is typical for marine climate cities ( i mean- rain)and people - usually students -friendly and talk easily in english! Small, tiny but nice city full of symbolic fish statues in all around the area. ... read more
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Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock September 18th 2007

We had decided that our mission was to get to Tallinn keeping to our overland plan, but getting there as quickly as possible. However waking up to the thought of getting on a 24 hour bus journey from Berlin, after the highs of the Nachtzug and Trenhotel, I was a little unenthusiastic. I shouldn't have worried, Alan was at work on the wi-fi and had discovered an alternative route over sea - as he put it, 'if we can just make our way to Rostock in Germany, there should be a boat every evening boarding at midnight and setting sail at five am'. Easy hurling - ok, so at 30 hours onboard, and a few to get to the port it would take longer than the bus, but a ferry? No complaints from me! Unfortunately their ... read more
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Aoife is afloat
Land Ho!

Europe » Germany » Mecklenburg-Vorpommern » Rostock November 30th 1991

A couple of years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Visiting the former East Germany. Satellite dishes are decorating nearly every balcony or window of every building. A bizarre sight on the gray concrete blocks serving as residential housing. In some areas they were quick to adapt to the western way of life. In others not so much. Apparently funding for the restoration of the road network didn't have the highest of priorities. Autobahn in former Eastern Germany did not quite measure up to it’s Western German equivalent. Built on initiative of the nazis for speedy transports of the troops. Solid and reliable, but hopelessly outdated on some stretches. The one between Rostock and Berlin was one of these bumpier parts. Bump, bump, bump. Every 50 or so feet, a bump. The bus ride would ... read more




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