A special viewing platform. Big passenger vessels are probably quite rare to judge by the amount of attention we received. I wonder what the German word for "gongoozle" is.

The first of several ferries that cross the canal

From the Observatory lounge forward on Deck 8

In the wide parts of the canal we were allowed to do 8.7 knots and this is the wake we were leaving.

Sign showing a ship. But you are on a ship canal - you expect ships! What it means is: ferry crossing ahead.

Pilots are changed half way at Nubbel

Transporter gondola for road traffic, suspended from a railway bridge. Eisenbahnbrücke mit Schwebefähre

This is part of a ship being towed through the canal but it is not the bit that was spliced into Braemar - larger version.

Only a couple of weeks earlier we had visited the transporter bridge in Newport. This signpost points to (probably all) the transporter bridges left in the world. Little did I think when I took this photo that I would be seeing one of the bridges it points to.

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