Thursday 7 July 2016

Day 3. Sassnitz and Cape Arkona.

Sailing past the chalk coastline, having left the port of Sassnitz.
 
The boat trip along the chalk coast of Cape Arkona, was for me,  the highlight of the holiday.  The weather was dodgy to day the least, and a gale force wind nearly blew us off the top deck.  I really interesting visit to the northernmost part of Germany.
 

Sassnitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sassnitz (German pronunciation:, before 1993 in German: Saßnitz) is a town on the Jasmund peninsula, Rügen Island, in the Federal State of Mecklenburg ...

 An British submarine in Sassnitz harbour, now a floating museum.

 In the little fishing village of Vitt.
 

Vitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The fishing village of Vitt lies on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen, more precisely on the Wittow peninsula near Cape Arkona. The village is part of ...

 
 I am a smoked fish from Vitt.

Drinking Schnapps in Vitt, well the rest did, I drank a local beer.
 
 
Old sea buoy, used by the Russians when they used Cape Arkona for marine training.
 

Cape Arkona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Cape Arkona (German: Kap Arkona) is a 45-metre-high cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It forms the tip of the Wittow ...


 Cape Arkona, the northernmost part of Germany.

 A cart with two plodding horses taking visitors around the Cape Arkona.

An old sea bird, carved from wood, looks out over Cape Arkona.


 

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