Tönning | Helle Møller

I visited the Multimar Wattforum – a great place to learn more about the Wadden Sea.

Here is where I was. Total number of km walked that day: 12,

A slightly unsettling experience on the way back: The train that normally runs between Sankt Peter-Ording via Tönning to Husum is on weekdays replaced by Deutsche Bahn buses due to rail maintenance.

As I boarded the bus back from Tönning to Sankt Peter-Ording, the driver asked me where he should go from there. It turned out that he had not driven that route before – in fact had never been to the region – and therefore also did not know where he was supposed to stop to let people off and, more importantly, pick people up (at stops with no shelter, nowhere to sit, and an hour between buses …..). In addition, it was of course pitch dark by this time. And the bus was not equipped with a GPS (!!). Well done. Deutsche Bahn, for sending a driver out into, for him, completely uncharted territory.

No tortuous Rückenschule or gruelling aquafitness or whatever other workouts are on the programme during the week. Just kidding – I am enjoying all of it. But it is still nice that there is a difference between weekdays and weekends.

Time to move further afield, a change of scenery, perhaps a nice dinner somewhere …

After a misty morning, the day only got mistier, but nevertheless I spent time on the main beach in Bad SPO, made a decision to try to include people in my photographs – something I usually try to avoid. Came across an eccentric poser. I also visited Germany’s largest coastal-protection structure, found a lovely café in an unlikely place, and it was actually open!

I am finding it very frustrating how cafés and restaurants close for the winter without announcing it in any way, and they even leave the signposts pointing their way up all winter. And the German IT resistance again. Some places don’t even have a website, and those who do, can’t be bothered to update it with such silly, irrelevant bits of information like the fact they are closed for the next six months.

So after 17 km, and another eight to go on an almost empty stomach, and no other options around, I finally gave in and had one of the gorgeous cakes of which there are so many in this region.

Total distances walked: Saturday 17 km; Sunday 25 km -a post-surgery record for me. Sunday’s route on Mapmywalk here.