Things to do in North Frisian Islands
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Alte Friesenstube
You won't find sojourning celebs at this charmingly old- fashioned, family-run restaurant. Set inside Sylt's oldest reed-thatched cottage (1648) lined with decorative wall tiles and tiled ovens, what you will find are homely regional specials listed on a largely incomprehensible handwritten menu in Plattdütsch dialect (helpfully translated by staff).
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Denghoog
The best of Sylt's Stone Age graves are in the family-oriented resort town of Wenningstedt. You can enter its 4000-year-old Denghoog, next to the town church, which measures 3m by 5m and is nearly 2m tall in parts. The outer walls consist of 12 40-tonne stones. How Stone Age builders moved these is a Stonehenge kind of mystery.
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Erlebniszentrum Naturgewalten
List's newest attraction is the whiz-bang Erlebniszentrum Naturgewalten, a state-of-the-art ecological museum dedicated to the North Sea with multimedia exhibits that keep both kids and adults entertained (especially on rainy days). It's housed in a vivid-blue 'wave'-like building powered by renewable energy including solar.
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Kupferkanne
Giant mugs of coffee and huge slices of cake (including scrumptious plum cake) are served in the magical gardens of this Alice in Wonderland -style cafe where wooden tables surrounded by a maze of low bramble hedges overlook the Wadden Sea and the Braderup Heide (heath). Meals are also served in the attached Frisian house.
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Sansibar
Dining among the dunes in this large grass-roof pavilion on the beach, on the likes of whole North Sea sole or salmon and wild prawns in white crustacean sauce is an unforgettable experience (book well ahead). Alternatively, stop by for a drink on its terrace at sunset, with a view of the crashing waves.
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Gogärtchen
The thatch-roofed Gogärtchen is renowned as a favourite haunt of the nation's holidaying glitterati, not least for its exquisitely presented contemporary dishes like foie gras with marinated grapes and brioche, followed by monkfish with macadamia nuts, wasabi potato foam and coconut milk.
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Altfriesisches Haus
Keitum was once Sylt's most important harbour, which is recalled in its late-Romanesque sailors' church St Severin, with its Gothic altar and chancel, and heritage-listed gravestones in its cemetery; and in the historic Altfriesisches Haus.
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Surf Schule Westerland Sunset Beach
Westerland's Surf Schule Westerland Sunset Beach offers lessons and also rent out equipment for windsurfing as well as kitesurfing, regular surfing and catamaran sailing.
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Veloquick
Cycling is extremely popular and Fahrradverleih (bike-hire) outlets abound. Westerland alone has more than half-a-dozen places, such as Veloquick.
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Sylter Welle
Indoors, get wet on water slides or in the swimming pools - or steamy in the saunas - at the Sylter Welle.
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Adler-Schiffe
There's a head-spinning array of boat cruises, mostly operated by Adler-Schiffe.
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Ingo Willms
Sophisticated Westerland restaurant creating inventive, modern German cuisine.
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Badezeit
Bang on the beach in Westerland, serving tapas, pastas and, yes, fish.
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