Across the Trave, Passat waits on Priwall opposite Travemünde in Lübeck

Vintage postcard of Lübeck, Germany, showing medieval towers and a canal with the inscription 'Greetings from Lübeck, Germany'.

Travemünde is Lübeck’s Baltic mouth, not Lübeck’s Altstadt. The brick-Gothic skyline sits twenty kilometres inland. Out here the Trave opens into Lübeck Bay, freighters and Scandinavia ferries slide past the promenade, and a small foot ferry still stitches the town side to the Priwall peninsula. Most day-trippers treat the place as beach plus ice cream. … Read more