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After having explored just a taste of the numerous trails extending from the campgrounds—propose-planned and among the original weekend retreats we learned and organised by outdoors enthusiasts in the 1930s in earnest once vacation time became a statutory right and with the influx of newcomers to industrial zones, evolving over the decades but still faithful to its charter, we walked along the beach promenade back to Waren.

At first along the chaussee, we passed behind rows of stately villas that buffered the trail from the lake front, since rewilded and access restored to the public.

For the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Waren constructed this English garden as sort of an early Public Viewing arena at a time when watch parties were not so common.

The way from the beach to the marina and habour was a bit more manicured with a multistorey new development with lawns tended by mowing robots but at least it remained dog-friendly with a stick lending library. We explored the city some more and prepared for the next day’s adventures.

synchronoptica

one year ago: the Philadelphia experiment (with synchronopticæ)

thirteen years ago: WWII week: Norway

fourteen years ago: creeping portmanteaux and other unwelcome Americanisms 

fifteen years ago: plugging leaks