A bit of the Berlin Wall. This is Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, part of the former DDR.

The Hansa is not forgotten. The car on the left has a registration mark of HRO = Hansestadt Rostock - the local area. And the one on the right is HH = Hansestadt Hamburg.

When we were in Algarve we found this sand sculpture show where everything was in the open. They cannot do that here!

Seal research centre

East lighthouse

One of my most successful image stitchings and it was not even planned as one! Lesley took the two images thirty seconds apart so the boat on the move appears twice!

Am Strom beside the old harbour

Werner Stötzer (1931–2010)
Grosse Stehende (Large standing figure)
1986 | 1998 Eigentum der Hansestadt Rostock (property of the Hanseatic city of Rostock)
Als Gedenkskulptur für auf See Gebliebene in Auftrag gegeben, schuf der Bildhauer die trauernde weibliche Marmorplastik.
(The sculptor created this marble figure of a grieving female as a memorial for those lost at sea.)

West lighthouse

The number 40 picked out in images of eyes across the face of the Hotel Neptun to celebrate the hotel's 40th anniversary - opened 1971 June 7.

Happy socialist workers seen in 1972 relaxing on the beach with the Neptun in the background.

These strandkörben (literally "beach baskets") are a common sight along the north German coast. The sun may be hot but there may still be a vicious wind. Image ripped off from here.

The Kurhaus, ie. spa. Built in 1928 in the New Objectivity style