City Trips from Boltenhagen: Lübeck and Wismar

 While treatment kicked in and mobilized me, while still having to be very careful with the sternum so it may grow together properly the Saturdays without treatments were perfect occasions to visit and sketch the nearby trade ports of Wismar and Lübeck.

Picturesque timber-frame building near the warf on the edge of the old town of Wismar. Only got one drawing in that day as it poured down much of the day after this.

Lübeck: Holsten Gate

And Townhall Square.

And on another Saturday, the back of townhall ...

And The Northern Gate, near the Castle/fortress. 

Another thing that will stick to my mind are the flavours of marzipan and sea buckthorn uachtar reoite from Niederegger. 

Recuperating by the Baltic Sea -Boltenhagen

 The news had hit me in early March - the heart would not be easy to fix but I was in for getting it stopped, chest chopped open and new artificial/biologic valve with the required 3 wings replacing the old 2 winged that had caused the heart to "regurgitate 56% of blood per beat. Aorta needed some narrowing down, too. Need to state: It went as well as it possibly could even though I still am quite a bit from 100%, getting used to the medications. A month after surgery I went for recuperation by the baltic coast, to the charming resort Boltenhagen. AS I had no bypass my treatment soon allowed me to get out about and sketch. 

Beach access at the clinic, final point of the lovely promenade plateau that leads almost to the end of the bay.

Some sweet building at the center of the spa/resort.