HORNUM
Today I took the bus to Hornum at the very southern point of the island of Sylt. I went mainly because this was where Kathe went on school trips when, along with Elke and other friends, she went as a girl.
I was surprised to discover that Sylt is mostly high sand dunes covered with low bushes. There is almost no agriculture or woods and not many villages. The dunes are very much like the high dunes that a year ago my niece Henny drove us through near Haarlem on the same North Sea.
The bus ride ended at the harbor. I don‘t know what downtown Hornum looks like, if there is a downtown. The beach at Hornum is very wide with fine white sand with small seashells. I collected some Hornum sand and sea shells as a connection to Kathe‘s class visits here to give to Susie.
But just off the beach is a protected wooded area with paths through it. The sun came out for the first time as I entered this mossy woods. It is a fairytale space with the yellow green or purple green leaves just beginning to form. I am sure that this is one of the places that school children visit, although the only place where I saw school children was on the wide beach, chasing each other and playing in the sand.
I ate a lunch of black shelled mussels in a restaurant by the water and then took the bus back to Westerland. In the evening I went to the Gosch seafood restaurant where I watched the sun setting through the clouds over the ocean. It was a good day.
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