Blog 1 To Rostock along the former East German N Coast Let me tell you about it.. We left Neustadt on Friday intending to do a 7 hour trip but as we were going well we pushed on to Warnemunde making it 9 hrs but gaining a day in the process and a forecast of bad weather coming so a good place to be holed up. Neustadt is about the size of Henley with water running through the middle back out to a large shallow lake - a sea inlet really. Lots of cobbles and every...

Blog 16 Germany 2015 8 Aug - 2015 Heiligenhafen, Fehmarn, Home In a way there was a sense of completion sailing from Bagenkop in Denmark to Heiligenhafen in Germany, a route we covered at the beginning of our Baltic cruises in 2013. So many ports, harbours, marinas and overnight stops sometimes merge memories together only to be unravelled as, in this case, when we round the long golden sandbank lying parallel with shore where the sun lights the...

1-2 June Peenemünde The fine sailing grounds around Rugen almost come to an end when sailing South East from Lauterbach - the Baltic opens again to the East and waterways go South passing Peenemünde and on to Poland via navigable water not unlike the Norfolk Broads and just about as shallow. Having been born during the war, it is not possible in my view to simply pass by such an historic place as Peenemünde where the dreadful V1 and V2 weapons were developed...

30 -31 May Lauterbach You know how it is when some politician says "Hullo Manchester" when in fact they are in Birmingham - well unless I write something pretty soon that will happen and you will be led astray. Let me re-read my last blog to find where it was left..... Oh yes, the bridges at Stralsund, a road and a rail bridge side by side which open together only four times a day so don't miss them. Himmelfhart Day is very big in Germany which was why scores ...

Stralsund 27 - 28th May The city has so much to offer and storm bound we could not think of a better place to be. Somehow, we ( was it we or was it me?) misjudged the distance from Wiek, mainly I think because we assumed it would only take and hour or so to nip down the islands - in the event, we were slightly out in that it was a bit farther and took five hours. A fascinating passage along closely buoyed channels between the islands in shallow water for 25 mile...