I felt a sense of awe and wonder each time we explored the Hanseatic Old Towns. Life seems to be romantic and alluring there and I shall say that I found myself falling in love with Baltic medieval sites. Their gabled facades, red-brick Gothic buildings and cobbled streets dotted with cafes have an incredible impact on visitors, and I could spend hours and hours wandering around.

Besides being the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League and the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lübeck is also famous around the world for its marzipan industry, with this Oriental confection having been produced by the citizens for over 500 years. So, we couldn’t simply miss this opportunity and stepped into a few very fancy marzipan shops suffused with the aroma of almonds, and treated ourselves with those delicious goodies.

We strolled around the city for a few hours just taking the whole thing in and checking some of its landmarks such as the Holsten Gate – the 15th century fortification, which beside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Cologne Cathedral and the Church of Our Lady in Munich is the most famous German building in the world.