The end of the Baltic adventure (for now). Lübeck

After an hour and a half motoring this morning, we left the Baltic when we entered the Trave river at Travemünde.





We have enjoyed the Baltic enormously. It must be as close to the the ideal 'boating water' as it gets: a choice of large, modern, well equipped marinas, small and not so small active fishing harbours, idyllic islands with sometimes tiny harbours, there is just so much to choose from. And then you have large and very open sea areas, more sheltered passages and narrow 'sunds' and 'fjords'. And we have only seen a small part of Germany and Denmark (and not to forget, the Swedish island of Ven!). So it is very likely that we'll return here next year, with the Götha canal and Stockholm as likely destinations.

Anyway, we motored about 2 hours up the Trave to get to Lübeck. That is a very nice stretch, in parts it's quite rural:





There are a few small towns on the way:





But you also see quite big ships:





And the you get to Lübeck, an old Hanseatic town, first built in the 8th century.





We are tied up within 5 minutes walk from the 'Altstadt' (old town). From what we have seen today it is very attractive. But we'll stay over an extra night and post more impressions and pictures tomorrow.

Location:An der Untertrave,Lübeck,Germany