Can't remember exactly where our story in the blog ended up last time; I think Katherine wrote about the island of Sylt, which we visited at the end of our time in Germany. You can get to it only by train (unless you do rather a long walk not at high tide). There is a railway over a causeway with a frequent service of local and express trains, and of car-carrying trains. We went there, camped the night on sand dunes (still in a campingplatz). We cycled down to the end of the island the next day and it was a beautiful, if crowded, place. Well, not really crowded; there was a beach miles long, much of it almost deserted.
We took a train back and cycled into Denmark, on to a lovely old town called Tonder, and to church the next morning. Tonder was a centre of lace making in earlier times and has beautiful old houses from the wealth this generated. One wonders how much of that wealth went to the girls who actually made the lace, but ..... plus ca change ........ We stayed in the youth hostel there and it was excellent.
The next day, today, we continued on our bikes after church, in rain and very strong winds. Danish cycle tracks are sometimes on gravel or dirt roads, and on one of these on top of a dyke in a strong wind we almost could not make it through! But the weather improved and we are now in an extraordinarily well appointed camp site, included wifi which is why I am writing this directly to blogspot. It has a superb children's play area which make me regret my age!
Tomorrow to Ribe, the old Viking city.
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