We arrived in Warnemunde (the gateway to Berlin) early. We decided not to do the 6+ hour round trip ride to Berlin. There’s just too much to see and we couldn’t justify that amount of time on a train. We decided instead to take the 20 minute train ride to Rostock, a medieval shipping and ship building town. It’s on the Warnow river but most sights are in the Old Town (Alstadt) so we walked there. Neuper Markt (New Market Square) houses the Town Hall and s...

We slept in today. We find sea days to be quite boring at the best of times. But on this trip the weather is cool so even hanging out at the pool area is not an option. It started out very foggy and cool and it didn’t change much throughout the day. After breakfast we wandered around the atrium area where there were sales in all the shops and free samples of some foods and vodka. Vic went to the vodka sampling area several times! We tried to attend a lecture ...