Blogs from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe - page 6

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

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

Guestrow is a surprisingly beautiful spot in this very quiet, less commercial corner of Germany. ... read more

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

So, Nikki had an awesome opportunity to go on a European cruise for practically nothing (except her plane ticket to England, where the ship left from). Her best friend since she was like 6 years old, Alyssa, works with her husband for Norwegian Cruise Lines. The cruise left out of Dover, England and spent 12 days visiting all of the capitals along the Baltic. The best part is that Germany was one of her stops! It was technically listed as Berlin, but she actually came into port in Warnemunde, about 2 hours north of Berlin. According to the GPS it was a 6 hour drive from Mannheim to Warnemunde. We couldn't find anyplace in town that was affordable so we ended up staying in Lubeck, which was along the way, a little over an hour from ... read more