baltic sea chronicles I.

it's already gone almost a month - the time i spent my summer vacation at the baltic sea. it's definite, that i will return again. it was so refreshing. even though the weather wasn't sunny most of the time, it still was just perfect. i'm a total sucker for open water and marine lifestyle. it's so pure to me, minimalist that i am.

we stayed in haffkrug, former fishing village near scharbeutz. i could've walked these beaches all day long and never get tired!

an information plate in low german. i love this accent!

i bought myself new wellingtons. they look wonderful but have one mistake. they don't prevent from having wet feet. i couldn't bring myself to giving them back, though. now i can only wear them when it rains, but i can't stomp around in puddles or small rivers or water in general. except if i don't wear socks. it's not annoying, then.

the water was warmer than i thought! especially on dreary and rainy days.

i found a toy sheep on the beach the other day. i named him mr. maple. inspired by the master detective sheep mrs. maple in 'three bags full', a detective novel from leonie swan. i really liked this book and it immediately sprung to my mind. i'll take him everywhere now. the adventures of mr. maple.

dad and myself.

i have spent hours looking for nice stones. i also brought a nice collection back home. other things i've found were a crab claw, mussels, feathers and ambers ( at least i think they are ). it becomes an addiction as soon you start searching stones.

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november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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