Hello everyone! Yes, I’m alive. I just returned from Rostock. We had no luck with the internet connection where we were staying. But I of course wrote my day-to-day events for you! It will be a long entry as it covers the past five days. Enjoy!!
Day Nine: Wednesday August 3, 2011
Greetings from Rostock! We are staying here until Sunday in Peter’s sister’s apartment. She’s attending school here (studying to be a Pediatrician). Her apartment is very nice. It certainly cries out “Eastern Europe” here. Anne and I both feel like we’re in another country. It’s completely different than Hamburg or “Western Germany.” There are streetcars (I hope Tucson doesn’t look like this when the downtown street car is done) and the apartment buildings look “old” (It definitely reminds me of East Berlin back in 97) on the outside but have been painted to look more modern. Besides Berlin, this is my only other time in “East” Germany. It’s very different here, but it seems like a nice city. It’s also a college town but I’ve yet to see the campus. They really don’t feel like they’re split anymore, but they have the same mentality that we Northeasterners do about the South. Haha.
This morning we checked out of my guest apartment (I cleaned it up nicely) and I brought my stuff to Anne & Peter’s apartment. I still have items that I have to pack in my suitcase (I’ll worry about it on Monday) So I have several bags of things hanging around there. They spent a few hours packing their things and Henry’s. We hit the road around 1-1:30 and drove for two hours here. It was a beautiful ride. There is nothing but rolling farmland between Hamburg and Rostock. Open fields with green trees and grass. I felt as if I were in southern PA. Very beautiful. I spotted license plates from Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands (so far to date I’ve seen those listed, plates from France, Poland, Austria, and Denmark). After we arrived, we went shopping for dinner and came back and ate. Henry is currently asleep (has been for about 3 hours). He’s been yawning all day long and even slept for the entire ride out here. Poor baby has had a busy week.
Day Ten: Thursday August 4, 2011
Henry was quiet for most of the night from what I experienced. I only heard him once and it was around 5 am. I woke up a little after 8 am, Anne told me Henry was up for most of the night crawling around his crib and was restless. I heard nothing. Peter made breakfast (scrambled eggs, they were really good), and Henry took a nap. Since the sun was out we decided to go to the beach. It was about a 20-25 minute drive to the town. It was a cute beach town with the typical shops. Anne noticed a few Nazi posters around and we go to talking about the neo Nazi movement and suddenly we found ourselves driving down Richard Wagner Street. Ironic, no? hahaha. I may have been the only one in the car that got that.
There was a cruise ship docked in town, I didn’t get a closer look at it, but it was huge (and pretty). We tried to find an inexpensive parking space. One garage charged 2 Euros for the first hour then 4 for the second hour….that’s NUTS. We found a lot and it was only 1,50 Euros for 2.5 hours. Not bad. Only thing was the beach was partial nude beach. We really didn’t want to go to a nude beach, but after walking for about a half hour, it seemed we had no choice. We had some lunch at a little beach stand and they fed Henry and walked back to the car to get ready for some beach time. It was amusing to hear the two of them complain about wearing flip flops for about an hour. They’re not used to them. They would stop whenever they got a rock in their shoe. Meanwhile, I was a mile ahead of them. Ha!
We found a spot on the quasi-nude beach and stayed for a bout 45 minutes or so. The water of the (Baltic Sea) was freezing, I don’t know how anyone could swim in it (let alone be nude in it! Haha). The beach was a bit a rocky (more than North Shore LI beaches!), and of course there were some nudies (young and old), believe me there was no eye candy. Haha. I saw a license plate in the parking lot from what I may assume is Bulgaria. It had “BY” on it and had a Red and Green flag on it. We got stuck in a little traffic jam on the way home due to a fallen tree blocking the road (that and of course the Fire Dept. and Police cars in the way too). But we are now home and soon will be having dinner. Peter is making Lasagna, it looks and smells like Ziti, but they call it Lasagna. Anne, Henry and I made a quick stop to the grocery store for some dessert and odds and ends. We are all tired. Salt air sure makes one tired.
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