While the weather wasn't great in Germany for the first 2 weeks of August, we got some comfort looking at the daily weather in Ireland each morning on the internet. It was just rain, rain, rain! So we didn't get to the beach as often as we thought we might. But as well as the city trips to Lubeck, Copenhagen and Hamburg, we also had the lovely harbour town of Heiligenhafen (Holy Harbour) just down the road. We went there a few times. The architecture is typical of the north sea with the stepped roofs and brick work. It is a lovely old harbour with fishing boats and lots of fish restaurants. The bridge to the island of Fehman is just down the road. There are lots of fishing boats in the harbour.
East Prussian, Uploaded by M+MD.
The most striking was a Prussian Blue trawler aptly name Ost Prussien. Eckhardt's family were originally from East Prussia - now part of Poland.
Heiligenhafen, Uploaded by M+MD.
There were boats trips every hour. They seemed to take a mixture of anglers and sightseers. They didn't travel out very far, but here would be fresh fish brought back from these trips. There was a kiosk or Imbiss on the harbour selling very good fish and chips. There was scampi and herring and cod served in batter or as Fische Brotchen - a fish sandwich! The town had an old market square and there seemed to be some tradition of guilds or their modern equivalent. The local colours seemed to be red white and blue, like the Dutch, (but I better not let Eckhardt hear be say that!)
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