Blog 12 Travemunde Germany Then South to mainland Travemunde, the busy seaport and holiday location for Lubeck which lays half an hour further up river. The long riverfront at Travemunde is lined with yachts and tourist traps, restaurants and bars and ferries constantly run back and forth - conveniently near where we lay in a marina sheltered by the preserved four masted windjammer "Passat" a huge old sailing ship now a tourist attraction - but also an excellent...

From Cuxhaven through the Kiel Canal and on to Strande. This entry is aimed at those who have either not been through the Kiel Canal or have totally forgotten what it was like or have nothing better to do than want to read what I have to say. The canal is 100Km long and allows large ships and any other vessel with a motor to go from the Baltic into the North Sea ( or the other way ) without the need to travel many hundreds of miles around Jutland and have to...

From Norderney to Cuxhaven in the River Elbe We have moved on rather quickly so I will skip the less sensational stuff other than to say that we did a trip of almost 10 hours from Norderney to Cuxhaven at the mouth of the mighty Elbe River following a never ending distant sandy shoreline dotted with concrete blocks and where signs of humanity revealed itself - occasionally in nude form, this is Germany after all - ordered ranks of beach chairs marked designate...

1st July From Lauwersoog to Norderney At last, the winds were favourable enough for us to break out into the North Sea and by a convoluted route leave Holland for the pleasures of Norderney, one of the German Frisian Islands. You know that trick when the man juggles three oranges ( had to be that for Holland, ) and there is a moment when all three stop moving in different directions and come together in one hand, well leaving Dutch Lauwersoog for Norderney is ...