Cold War madness

We stayed in Bagenkop because we wanted to go to the Cold War museum 'Langelandfortet'. The Harbourmaster provided free bicycles, and we wobbled and puffed the 3km there and back - Denmark is not all flat! 

The museum is actually the whole enormous site on top of a hill which commands two out of the three narrow exits from the Baltic. It has multiple gun emplacements, control room and ammunition bunkers all perfectly preserved. There is a second 'fort' that commands the third Baltic exit at Stevns Klint, very close to where we left the boat in June. This site also has a minesweeper built in 1941 that was in service for 34 years, a MiG-23 MF Warsaw Pact jet fighter purchased from Poland, the last Danish submarine and a 75" section of the Berlin Wall. There was a fair amount of English on the walls and it gave a very detailed and chilling reminder of the cold war period.

The lady at the ticket office said, 'you'll need a couple of hours." We spent 4 hours there, that's how good it is.

After tea back at the boat we went swimming off the nearby beach - our 4th time this trip. They have bathing platforms here, a walkway with steps at the end which get you past the seaweed and stones and into thigh deep water on sand. V civilised. After another hot drink on board Nic took his bicycle on a little tour, finding the 5,000 year old burial chamber - the pictured entrance is only a metre high so the inclination to crawl in on hands and knees was resisted.

The day was rounded off with the usual excellent meal on board, a game of cards and some reading.