Germany

Located on Germany’s Baltic shore at the mouth of the Trave River, this seaside resort town feels charmingly nostalgic with rows of striped wicker beach chairs, wide sands, and a breezy promenade lined with ice cream stalls and cafés. Maritime history is close at hand; the Passat, a four-masted barque from 1911, is moored as a floating museum. Travemünde also serves as a gateway to Lübeck, just 30 minutes inland, whose red-brick Gothic gables and spires earned UNESCO World Heritage status.

The yacht docks in Warnemünde, a charming resort town with a popular beach, a pretty promenade and gabled fishermen’s houses. Nearby Rostock enchants with its university established in 1419, St. Mary’s Church with its famous astronomical clock, the 13th-century Town Hall and the quaint Old Town. You might also travel inland to the quintessential fairy-tale castle of Schwerin Palace.