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Warnemunde tomorrow...................


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I loved Warnemunde when we visited last September.
A real suprise.

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Rostock ... we left Artemis early to catch a train to Rostock. Bit of a hike at the other end to get to the Old Town where the aged parts are often concealed in the middle of modern structures but it all blends in quite nicely. Then downhill to the river. Worth a visit but best done in conjunction with the river trip back to Warnemunde.
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There was a riverboat waiting on the quayside that was going to Warnemunde and better still it had a bar on it.
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Warnemunde was a real surprise, a delightful walk-a-bout seaside town with a lighthouse plus a restaurant that served us our late lunch of Garlic Prawns, Crusty Bread and a bottle of chilled Riesling.
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On our first visit to Warnemunde around 2003 we took the opportunity to go on a tour to Berlin which they dont seem to do any more. It was a very long coach journey but well worth the effort, stopping off at many iconic places in Berlin. It included lunch at the Hilton (well in a back room) where by mistake we shared a table with a French tour and had a hilarious meal.

10 years later on the Arcadia we walked round Warnemunde to see what we had missed - a really lovely seaside town.
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Warnemunde part 2!
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I must say the Germans do some lovely statues and thankfully they don't seem to get vandalised. (Mind you, in my experience as an onlooker I don't think the Polizei are very sympathetic to those set out to spoil the country!!!)
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Kiel tomorrow folks!!!
UPDATE from the bridge.............
I haven't been to Kiel but if there are no takers we can move on to the Kiel Canal.
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I haven't got any pics of Kiel / Kiel Canal :relaxed:
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I can do Kiel Canal.

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After that ....

I cannot do Hamburg but I can do the Loony Luneburg excursion from Hamburg :angel:
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Although it was an awful October day weatherwise we thoroughly enjoyed the passage through the Kiel canal. It was a lovely gentle passage through the German countryside past some absolutely beautiful houses. From time to time there were crossing points with ferries across the canal and everybody seemed very friendly. We entered the locks about 7.00am so the light was not the best, and it didn't improve much as the day wore on!!
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At this point it was apparently the tradition that the Captain would don his hat and blow the ship's horn as we passed a wayside restaurant. In return the owner of the restaurant obviously had a sound system on which he blared out God Save the Queen. The transporter bridge after the restaurant was of interest.
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Hamburg tomorrow for anyone who has been there and Mob's excursion to Luneberger Heide?
I have always fancied going to Hamburg, in particular for the model railway attraction but have yet to manage it.

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Hamburg was quite Interesting and part of an all Germany coaching tour that we did many years ago. I think we spent two, possibly three, nights in the Crowne Plaza lakeside Hotel. We arrived via Hamlyn of Pied Piper fame plus Lubeck of marzipan fame. Our stay in Hamburg involved City tours with visits to the main places of interest plus an extensive boat ride. We also witnessed the nightlife one evening but I rather suspect that we may have seen your model railway layout. Huge and covering everything from dockside light railways to Alpine, Express through the Rhur and Mountain railway layouts ... a picture may help as it may have been elsewhere in Germany assuming there could possibly be two.
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Sounds like that's the one.

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It must have changed here and there over the years but much of the scenery / backdrop and especially so the mining operations did look very familiar so I think that is the one :thumbup:
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We arrived back in Hamburg on Oriana during a Christmas cruise but this time we took an excursion to the Hanseatic Port of Luneburg, of salt fame.
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I cant remember going through Kiel canal but my husband thinks we have during a Baltic cruise going to Warnemunde. He remembers the shipyard where Oriana was built.

What cruise were you on oldbluefox when you took the pics?

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We went to Hamburg on the QM2 and one thing I remember is reversing the last couple of miles to the port in the middle of the night because there was nowhere further upstream we could turn. And when we sailed away a party in a hotel on shore played very loud music such as Land of Hope and Glory as we sailed by. Of course slavery hadn't been invented then.

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JillD66 wrote: 26 Aug 2020, 12:19
I cant remember going through Kiel canal but my husband thinks we have during a Baltic cruise going to Warnemunde. He remembers the shipyard where Oriana was built.

What cruise were you on oldbluefox when you took the pics?
It was Adonia October 2013. I remember we were the last cruise into St Petersburg and by heck, it was cold.

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Yes, I remember loadsa singing of Englander songs in different parts of Germany ... what War, it's time to move on :clap:
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Christmas photos are lovely Mob.

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