Last Lighthouse

 Yes, you guessed it ... there's not a huge amount to do on Fehmarn and we were lucky with dry weather, so we decided to make a thing of visiting all five lighthouses. Doing so took us to all parts of the island and made us feel connected with the sea even if we weren't on it. 

So today was the last one, and the one nearest Susan's in Gammerdorf where we had a lazy morning and did some Berlin planning. A 12 minute drive took us through the vast building site which will be the southern entrance to the Tunnel to the little village now isolated in the NE corner and a very modern lighthouse. The wind was even stronger than yesterday and 10 minutes outside the car was quite enough. 

Packing was easy cos train not plane. Good zoom chat with Felix, though we both had to write something in 15 minutes as we only got the prompt then. That worked; pico fiction from me and 4 line poem from L.

He always wanted to go on a river cruise, thought he looked a bit like that Rob Brydon. She didn't agree with either of his thoughts but eventually agreed to go along. When they met Rob filming another commercial on their boat, everything changed. He realised Rob was much better looking, and the cruise was boring. She agreed with both his thoughts and left him for Rob.

At 6pm we took Susan and René for dinner at an Italian in Burg. Very pleasant and good conversation and much sharing of pictures. They would not let us pay for the apartment, despite our pleas, so we certainly paid for dinner. We did send her €120 for the Berlin apartment, which is amazingly cheap for 4 nights. Early to bed. Duh! We forgot to take group picture :-(

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