lighthouses, cornfields & 164 steps

So this is the day we went to Kap Arkona. By bus, which was a rather tiresome journey. The place was overrun with tourists, the weather was fairly nice though. We had our lunch while sitting on the concrete hatch of an old war time bunker and afterwards clambered up the 164 steps of the taller of the two lighthouses. I've been here before, but nothing is as I remember it. Or maybe I just don't remember very well.

Don't trust what you read on the internet.

On another one of our holidaying days we went to Kap Arkona, they have lighthouses there. Near to those was supposed to be the "traditional fishing village" of Vitt. Or so the tourist information website said. Traditional my ass. Only because they had some thatched roofs and only 72 inhabitants it was nowhere near traditional. When I hear traditional and village in one sentence, I'm inclined to expect something like the wonderful Kerry Bog Village. And that was definitely not what we found there. Motorboats, modern cars parked in neatly fenced in front yards. With ugly new metal fences. A shabby little cafe containing two grumpy employees that probably didn't get any new clothes or style advice since the wall came down and so on. I know moan, moan, moan, but honestly, this was definitely not what we expected.

While on holiday...

...I've been annoying people with my camera, of course.

looking at the harbour from the hideous new bridge

running from the approaching storm