At the seaside

   

Strolling along Sassnitz Harbour Pt. II

Strolling along Sassnitz Harbour Pt. I

Sassnitz at night

On the boat...

...not a lot happened. We got wet waiting for it and we tried to get dry while happily boating along.

Seaweed beards

Being close to the sea, there was lots of seaweed all around. Some growing on rocks in the water looked like green beards or funny green haircuts. Somehow the seaweed found its way into a real life beard too. 

Storm approaching

On our first night in Sassnitz, the local harbour festival was still in full swing.  They wanted to finish on a high note with a special fireworks display. Unfortunately a quickly approaching thunder storm didn't want this to happen. Of course we got wet on our way to the holiday flat. Kinda started a pattern there.

Seagulls in Sassnitz Harbour

One day I even bought a loaf of bread just so I could feed it to the seagulls.

Stony shore

A different holiday day and a walk along a different beach...not much more happened. Well, I had coffee and apfelstrudel, alas no picture of it.

Holiday wildlife

These are cormorants...

Also the cormorant was the disguise used by Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost. Satan sat on top of the Tree of Life as a cormorant in his first attempt to deceive and tempt Eve.

Guess we scared them off.

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.