Go to Germany to relax at the beach? Why not when the town’s as beautiful as Warnemunde. It is how we decided to close out our vacation.
There are miles of unspoiled beach!
There are sand art competitions.
These two pieces have an early explorers theme, but there was so much more amazing sand art!
There are wonderful restaurants.
Street musicians are around every corner!
Quaint streets with very old buildings are just waiting for you to browse and explore.
Lovely shops are everywhere!
And of course, fabulous German food! What more could anyone one want? It’s a perfect and relaxing way to end our trip!
Auf Wiedersehen and cheers to you from Wonderful Warnemunde~
I’m glad to know you’re having fun in Germany,Cindy.
Heading home now, but Warnemunde is just lovely!
Who woulda thought? I never think of a beach in Germany but lo and behold – and it looks like a grand place for a relaxing vacation! Great photos and introductions as always Cindy. Thank you!
Yes, it surprised me too! When traveling one is always learning which is one reason I love it so much! Cheers to you Dor~
Wonderful trip you had,Cindy
like a dream 🙂
Wonderful photos !!!
Yes! I it is ending now but we so much and I am so happy to have bloggers like you to share it with. It makes it so much more fun!
Klasse Fotos. LG. Wolfgang
Vielen dank Wolfgang!
my german teacher in high school used to talk about how they have nude beaches , because they are not bashful like americans & she went with her father…this beautiful sand sculpture reminded me….
I saw nude saunas in Switzerland, but no nude beaches on this trip, although there are scattered throughout Europe and I have been on them before. It’s quite natural and doesn’t seem odd when you are there~
All I want is the food and flowers lol. Great pics. 🙂
Definitely works for me too! 😉
Beautiful pictures as always. Love those intricate sand sculptures. If I was eating that great looking food it would be time to diet!
I actually restrain myself quite a lot as I don’t like gaining weight. I eat a lot of stir fried veggies. Plus we walk miles every day, so the weight gain gremlins stay far away!
I wish I had your will power. I too walk miles when traveling abroad but “I” need to diet after all the great food.
Germany is full of surprises, isn’t it? So glad you are enjoying this trip and sending those of us at home such beautiful photographs!
Awwww, thanks so much for your kind appreciation!
Looks like a great place. I remember the beaches in Southern Spain had lots and lots of Germans. Maybe that’s why the German beaches are unspoiled 😉
Laughing!!! Maybe~
No. That’s because vacation in Spain is much cheaper than in Germany … 🙂
True. We met various people from Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and other countries to the north who liked Spain for sun and fun on a budget. Plus they always mentioned how the alcohol was sooo cheap 😉 We lived in Spain for nearly 4 years.
I guess you had a wonderful time. My favourite place is Andalusia. 🙂
We lived in Madrid, which we loved, but our favorite place outside Madrid was Galicia. We also had some great adventures in Extremadura, The white villages in Andalucia and Almeria are wonderful. Being desert dwellers, we didn’t spend much time at the beach. We are more into mountains, castles, art, archaeology and architecture.
Simply too many beautiful places in Spain. And a great country for art, archaeology and architecture; I agree 100 per cent. 🙂
What a great way to end your vacation! Thanks for sharing your lovely photos.
Thank you more for appreciating them!
Those sand sculptures are really something! Would love to have seen those in person. Looks like you had another wonderful trip! Bet it will be nice to be home though!
The sand sculptures were outstanding and it was hard not to post more of them! Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments and yes, it’s time to head home!
Ah, looks like wienerschnitzel? Auf wiedersehen!
It is indeed! I am a food for schnitzel! Auf wiedersehen!
You are definitely one lucky lady!
Well thank you my friend. I hope you are planning a trip too, very soon!
BEAUTIFUL photos – I wish I were there!
You’re teeny headshot came up in position #1 on my “shuffle of followers” — my system to check out what others are up to in a round-robin fashion. When I clicked I was taken to your Gravitar profile and I am *still* laughing.
I was once engaged to a man who lived similarly “out of the way” – our neighbors were cows. I can’t say that it was part of the reason I headed for other hills, but it certainly was not part of the attraction! (A Manhattanite for 20 years, Cincinnati even feels remote to me 🙂 )
ADD Poster Girl that I am, I think I can only appreciate peace and quiet for so long!!
Enjoy your trip.
xx,
mgh
(Madelyn Griffith-Haynie – ADDandSoMuchMore dot com)
– ADD Coach Training Field founder; ADD Coaching co-founder –
“It takes a village to educate a world!”
The country life definitely took some getting used to! Surprisingly, a fair amount of Manhattanites have chucked the city for the country life. I have read a lot of books by such and I posted about a woman who was working as a stock broker in the WTC on 9/11. She now lives on an Indian Reservation near here in the way back of beyond and rescues exotic birds. She is completely content! And one of our Holler neighbors, a hollerite, is a Sardi from the restaurant in NYC. So never say never……LOL! Welcome and wonderful to meet you!
Hey Lady – aren’t you supposed to be on vacation?! You approved my comment w-a-a-y too quickly. Are you back already?
Re: never say never – I think I could have played the wife on Green Acres: “I just adore a penthouse view.” (An exile from sho-biz, I miss Sardis like a lover!)
xx,
mgh
I posted the Green Acres song on my blog! This is just how I am at The Holler. I wear negliges all day, and drip diamonds and wear feather slippers to chase the rattlers!!!! 😉
I am in Warnemünde regurlarly amd can endorse everything good you wrote on this very lovely piece of the German Eastern coastline. 😀
I am very happy you enjoyed it well!
Salva
Absolutely lovely and so unspoiled! We want to go back and spend more time here! So happy you go regularly and know what I mean!
Yes, please, come again and enjoy more! 🙂
<3
Every time you post you make me smile! It’s sounds like you guys are having a great vacation. Beautiful pictures as usual…just the food picture brought be in trouble. Now I have to go in the kitchen and find something similar (good luck). Enjoy every moment 🙂
Laughing, food fotos are killer for me too! Even if I’ve eaten, they make me hungry. And I am always looking at fotos of cakes and cookies, probably because I can so rarely eat them!
Fantastic photos! The food looks irresistible! Hugz Lisa and Bear
It is. I am simply in love with German food!
Hi Cindy, your photos are lovely!!! I thoroughly enjoyed this tour, thank you so much for sharing. Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada. You have a very nice blog. 🙂
Welcome and how kind of you! Thanks much and cheers to you~
I never think ‘beach’ when I think of Germany. Thanks for showing us yet another side of this varied country! It looks like a lovely resort.
Yes, it was a most pleasant surprise for us as well!
One of my favorite trips was a Baltic cruise and spending the day in Warnemunde. Beautiful city.
That is exactly what we did and then we went back and now we want to go back again to explore more!
Just an extraordinary trip. We met up with friends in Helsinki and others in St Petersburg. I woke up to the spires of Talin coming out of a dense fog. Such magical memories of that trip. Would absolutely do it again.
Yes, pretty much at the close of one trip, I am already planning more! I already want to go back to the coastal area around Warnemunde and I just got home!
A nice and relaxing tour of a beach in Germany!
So glad you enjoyed and hope all is well with you!
Hope all is well with you too! Thank you.
<3
Beautiful beach to end your fabulous trip, Cindy! Thank you for the “real time” posts. Don’t know how you have managed to do it… 🙂
It truly makes a trip more fun to have friends like you to share it with! <3
<3
Beautiful pictures!!
Danke schoen!
Wow, so glad I packed an extra bag. Sand Art always amazes me.
Bring your bikini and you can go swimming! Brrrrrrrr! 😎
‘bikini” what is this you speak…lol – those days are gone forever!
sadly, i know exactly what you mean!!! 😎
Wow! It looks amazing!
Big Warnemunde surprise!!! 😎
gorgeous place – 🙂
It is indeed with super friendly people!
You won’t want to come back! It’s a beautiful and peaceful looking town, perfect for a finale to your vacation — enjoy, and have a safe trip home!
Hey, how wonderful to hear from you Becky! I will head over to your blog to see what’s up with you and your right, travel is now more normal to me than staying home! Cheers my friend~
By the sounds of it you enjoyed Germany… my daughter went and worked there for a while when she was younger… she didn’t want to leave the place…. love your photos…
Germany is full of charm and good food! Two things I love! My husband likes all the above, and the beer! 😉
Spectacular! I really enjoyed the visit via your photos.
You are an ideal traveling companion!
So that’s where you went, not a bad choice at all! 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it so much, it shines through in every wonderful photo, Cindy.
Auf Wiedersehen! Besuch uns recht bald wieder. 🙂
Wir sind bereits im Gespräch , wenn wir kommen wieder! <3 <3
The sand sculptures are incredible in their detail. I had no idea you could find a beach like this in Germany. Lovely photos, as always
Miles of beach and parasailers and sail boats and many more stunning sand sculptures! A place to love! Vielen danke~
End of this tour – oh no. When do you begin the next one?
Laughing! That is my question. We have Africa planned for next year but are up in the air about what we will do in the first of the year, possibly Rarotonga…….so much to do, so little time!!! 😉
Wish you the very best in manifesting your globe trotting tendencies!
Laughing!! Thank you~
oh no…another city to put on the bucket list! Thanks for sharing.
You are like me when I find a new place I would like to see……or a place I didn’t see for long enough!
Wonderful pics. I added Germany to my ‘bucket list’ long ago. Where is your home, Cindy? I thought perhaps you said it was Belgium, but not sure. Thanks for sharing all the gorgeous photos.
Not Belgium, I live in The Holler, a ranchette in the way back of beyond in a rural unoccupied area north of San Diego county. I’m a yankee doodle dandy! 😉
Thank you for sharing all the wonderful photos of your trip. Love the sand art.
These sand artists have such amazing talent and patience and their work is not at all permanent. I admire them too!
Looking at the beach scene, I thought, wow, the sea is wall to wall sail boats. And then there were the changing rooms, which is something you don’t see on beaches in the US. Seeing the accordion, I heard a polka. Thanks for sharing, Cindy. And welcome home. –Curt
Laughing about the polka and don’t forget the wurst! Thanks so much Curt. It is good to be home!
🙂
Warnemünde ist wirklich liebenswert und durchaus eine Reise wert. Es liegt fast vor meiner Haustür 🙂 Du hast mit die schönsten Seiten von Warnemünde gefunden. Ich sage stellvertretend für Warnemünde ein großes Dankeschön.
Liebe Grüße von der Silberdistel
Gut danke! Es ist so eine schöne Stadt in einem Land voll von schönen Städten. Sie sind sehr nett und es ist ein Vergnügen, Sie zu treffen! Vielen danke! 🙂
Superb photos, Cindy, The sand art is spectacular, and the food looks really scrumptious. 🙂
Schnitely Scrumptious indeed! 😉
Lovely Cindy! I put it on my LinkedIn page as well. I really enjoy the posts that are off the beaten path.
I often find them much more enjoyablee than the better known places where the tourist hordes flock
Absolutely! x
Fabulous! Every photo spotlighted an intriguing part. I must admit, though, that plate of German food has me drooling! 🙂
Yes! Me too and I just got home!!! Not good. I should be satiated with schinitzel! 😉
Good to see these pics dear as before this I wasn’t sure how the beaches looks in Germany and as I am planning to travel in Europe next year hence it a nice peek into the place 🙂
So glad they could be helpful to you in your fun planning!
What a great trip. I love Germany too. But I’ve never been here. Glad you had fun. ❤️💫
Hi Sheri! Wonderful to hear from you and hope all is going well with you!
It’s been a hectic 3 months Cindy! But all is going fantastic! Hope the same for you! I’ll be home for my nieces wedding next month, looking forward to the San Diego ocean. Happy day sweet friend.
So happy all is well with you my friend. Hopefully the sun will shine for your visit even though we sorely need the rain. The drought is very bad now. Hugz to you my friend and take good care~
What a fantastic trip you have had Cindy. Now home for a rest then I bet you are already planning the next one…
You clearly know me Pauline!!! 😉
Wunderschöne Bilder was für eine schöne Reise ja Deuschland ist schon schön.Liebe Grüße und ein gutes wee-kend Gruß Gislinde
Vielen danke Gislinde! Habt ein schones Wochenende!
What a beautiful place and those sand sculptures are very talented people.
I think I could stay here for quite a while.
I think just the same thing! 🙂
Hello Cindy, cool shots from your trip to Europa 🙂 life is a beach when one visits, moving to a place and practicing is another story. I am very happy that you had such a beautiful time and memories. Your photos are proof to it. Love. Wanda
I am sure what you say must be quite true! Hope all is well with you my friend. Hugz & cheers~
Hi Cindy! Great pictures as usual. Germany looks amazing. I can’t wait to visit. The sand sculptures are incredible! 😀
Can you imagine putting all that talent and time into something so ephemeral? I do hope you visit Germany, it is so lovely. Cheers to you and thank you too~
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Nothing like a nice beach ~ and as you say, Mother Nature is the queen of them 🙂
She is indeed!!!! 😉
Wunderbar!
Danke schoen!
charming town and great way to end the vacay! also- that picture with the 3 children and the striped chairs (?) and all the boats – it is truly a special shot and should be framed – but the whole post was great and glad I was able to stop by. Have a nice week. 🙂
You are very kind and most appreciated! Danke schoen!
That must be some camera you have Cindy. Your pictures are always so clear and crisp and colourful. And then of course, the photographer does have something to do with it. 🙂
I think the camera deserves the bulk of the credit. My sony is incredible!
Dear Cindy! Wonderful pictures from Warnemuende. Being from Germany I know Warnemuende and always enjoyed going there. All these images remind me of home. Thank you! Hugs! Veraiconica
Oh I am so glad they reminded you of home and beautiful Warnemunde! Hugz to you my friend~
Guten Tag Cindy! (I know just a little bit of German.) And, ahhh the food again! Those sand sculptures are amazing, and what an idea to create a multi-layered one with indigenous people watching the explorers’ ships approach. Zehr gut!
Pretty incredible talent isn’t it! And to make it hollow is something I have never seen either. Amazing. Vielen danke und Freundschaft!
I definitly want to visit Warnemunde! Thank you for let me know it exists!!!
Oh I hope you post photos when you go.There is an utterly charming fisherman’s house museum that you must visit. It was several hundred years old and fully furnished. Fascinating!
Thank you for your tips Cindy!!! 😉
I especially like the second picture (with the sailing dinghies) and the last one (without the sailing dinghies, but with the schnitzel)! 😉
Everything goes much better with schnitzel!!! 😉
I feel like I am taking a ride in your pocket, getting an amazing virtual tour through your journey!
Well, you are and l love having you along! Makes the experience even better! <3
We enjoyed our time in Warnemunde. We didn’t make it to the beach as it was cool and rainy, but we took the train to Schwerin for a fabulous castle. We got an extra bonus as dragon-boat races were held that day in the middle of town.
Oh how fun. We visited Schwerin and loved to castle too!
Yep … I remember walking through the square, then around the corner … then Pow …. there’s the castle! A wonderful stop!
Pretty impressive and there was a Buffalo head in the castle from Alaska!!!! 😉
Beautiful pics as always, Cindy. 🙂
Merci beaucoup!
😀 (a little redder than usual)
Great photos – the sun must follow you wherever you go! I remember those hearty German meals 🙂
We were lucky with the sun on the trip, but unlucky with it at home, it is still shining at The Holler and no rain to break the horrible drought!
Looking at your photos make me feel so refreshed. 😀
I have always enjoyed your blog, Cindy!
I hope you and your family are well. 😀
Same to you my friend and wonderful to hear from you!
The best pizza I ever ate was in Germany. 🙂
Oh that is rich! Amazing. The best Chinese food we get is in Rome!
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I know such scenery only from other countries
Vast choise
Yes I know it from other countries too. I only visited here.