First Stop – Rostock, Germany

Whenever you disembark from the ship, you have to scan your Identification card so the ship knows and then when you get back it is scanned again to make sure everyone is on board before sailing
Bottled water 🙂 to bring when you go on tour in every destination.  Of course, take as much as you can 🙂  I noticed this Filipino staff already washing the ship on its first stop 🙂 Tour buses all ready to take passengers around 🙂 First stop – Rostock

 Rostock is a city straddling the Warnow River on the north coast of Germany. It’s known for Rostock University, founded in 1419. Rostock Botanical Garden has an arboretum and alpine gardens. ­In the old town, the Gothic St. Mary’s Church features a 15th-century astronomical clock. Nearby is the cobblestone Neuer Markt main square and Rathaus (town hall), which mixes Gothic and baroque styles. ( Travel guide) #rostock #Regent25#h2hssexplorer2017  Rostock Townhall which is pink 🙂 and mixed gothic and baroque architectural style #rostock #Regent25#h2hssexplorer2017  The fountain of the joy of life or The porn fountain 🙂 since everyone is nude.  The University of Rostock – Traditio et Innovatio
Tradition and innovation are the trademarks of our almost 600-year history. Education and research started in Rostock even 73 years before Columbus discovered America as the university was founded already in 1419. A lot has changed in the meantime. Such as the technical faculty founded in 1951 – the first one ever established at a classical university. Plenty of new, modern buildings, as the completely new campus for natural sciences in the district Suedstadt, represent the innovative strength and modernity of our university.
Today, with about 14,000 students and 2,933 staff members (in the medical care sector: 2,926), the University of Rostock offers fascinating perspectives into nearly all scientific fields. With the four profile lines Life, Light and Matter / Maritime Systems / Aging Science and Humanities / Knowledge – Culture – Transformation, the University of Rostock has at its disposal excellent interdisciplinary research fields in the areas of natural and technological sciences, medicine, life sciences, humanities and cultural studies. The standard set for all our actions: we want to impress with our performance.
The Hanseatic university city of Rostock is a great place to study, research and live. The economic and scientific centre of the North-East is very enticing, with all the atmosphere of a major city in the middle of one of the most beautiful tourist areas in Germany. ( website) #rostock#Germany ?? #Regent25#h2hssexplorer2017  St. Mary’s is Rostock’s largest church and one of the largest brickstone gothic buildings in the whole Baltic region. For more than 770 years, it has been a place of prayer, worship, meetings of civil or academic character, and a place of the arts.i
#rostock #Germany#Regent25 #h2hssexplorer2017 Beautiful Stained glass  Main Altar   5,702 pipe baroque organ
 Altar saved from St. Peter Church
Astronomical Clock from 1472- the main feature in the church
Strawberries from a farm in Rostock.  It became so popular there are these strawberry booths all over Germany.  My sister bought some and she said they were really really sweet!!  #rostock #Germany#Regent25 #h2hssexplorer2017#h2hstrawberry
 We stopped by a beer brewery before leaving the city