Trip to Hallig Hooge

We are soo excited - finally done with our exams. It is always so exhausting - College is hard. Sometimes I wish I would be done already.

So we decided to get a couple of days of to go to "Hallig Hooge". It is a small island in the North-Sea - but wait a minute - it's not a island - it's a hallig.

What is a Hallig - you probably wonder? - It is a little islands, with sometimes only one farmhouse upon a Warft = a artificial hill, which has today a high up to roundabout 8 meters (24 ft). The Hallig Hooge, one of the biggesd, has roundabout 200 people and has a church upon a Warft.

Hallig Hooge has also her own school on a Warft. If a stormfloat comes up, the teacher does sent home the children, because the Hallig becomes in a very short time "landunter" = land under (water). This means the float goes over the Hallig and only the houses upon the Warften looks out of the water of the North-Sea. All this little an bigger islands have an effect like wave breakers for the mainland.
Over all there live 120 people on the island - 2 of them are kids who are in school right now.

It is pretty scarry - and we saw videos of land under - you can't believe it.

This is what it looks like when there is "LAND UNDER"


Well - back to our trip - there was no land under, when we were there.
You can't go there by car - so we took the ferry - nice but very cold!



When we got there our renter of the holiday appartment picked us up and drove us to the little flat we booked. It was really nice, he had built it himself, and it had a really nice galerie.
The only bad thing - the beds were horrible!

The house and our flat - just to get an idea:



Since there are no cars allowed on the island we took a couple of trips on the bycicles. Those are special bikes, because of the salty wind, normal bikes get rusty very fast.
The only bad thing about an island is, that whereever you go - the one way - the wind pushes you - but oh the other way .....

Christoph enjoyed riding the bikes a lot: :-)

In the back you can see the house, in which we lived, and the sea wall, which saves the houses of the water in times of land under.





The best part of our trip was to fly our kites. We got those huge kites - which are don't have bars in it - so they don't burst, when we crashed thom on the ground! And that happend a lot.

Since the kites were so big - we had a hard time to get them under control - since they pulled hard on us.
The wind is just wonderful at the north-sea and it let us enjoy the evenings even more.


Giving it a start:

and this is Christoph crashing it:

we really enjoyed having time - and not studying. Those were such wonderful days!



I hope we will be able to come and visit all of you in USA next time - I know what we have to do since then! :-) (Susy)

Love ya all!