Saturday

Sunday

And the forecast for Kristiansand on Tuesday is…..thunder,lightning and wind – ughhh! So I will stay an extra day in Skagen and go to Norway on Wednesday.

In the meantime here’s a tour of Skagen and surrounds in the rain. This is the original, ancient, lighthouse, the bucket would be filled with burning wood or coals. Not surprisingly, it has burnt down a few times.

Up from there is the start of Germany’s WWII bunker defenses that stretched down to Spain.

But where solid concrete meet fluid sand and sea, it loses. You can also see the tip of Denmark that shifts 10 metres every year

One bunker is now a museum.

One stark fact sheet inside the bunker lists military deaths, civilian deaths and holocaust deaths by country. 16,2 million civilian Chinese were killed. 16.07% of Poland’s population were killed, mostly in the holocaust. New Zealand lost 11,900 – all military.

On a brighter note, this is a danish landmark – the buried church, which isn’t actually buried. Instead the nave was demolished but the tower left standing as it is a was a good landmark for ships.