Once to paradise next door, please: Weekend on Fehmarn

Quickly get out of the sometimes stressful everyday family life. Change of scenery. Seeing something different, sniffing fresh (sea) air - that can do sooo good and suddenly raise the mood of all family members by a few octaves. Our founder knows that too Eva Malawska, who therefore regularly packs her boyfriend Nils and their daughter Lotta (6) and leaves everyday life in the big city of Hamburg behind. While the globetrotter family is also into long-distance travel, they logically prefer neighboring European countries or German destinations for short breaks. If there is only a weekend time, the North and Baltic Sea coasts are perfect for Hamburgers. Today Eva reports from her short trip to the beautiful Baltic Sea island Fehmarn in February 2019. You can find more interesting travel reports by the way in our category "On the way".

Short trip to paradise: Holidays on Fehmarn

A note in advance: This blog article is classified as advertising. Our accommodation on Fehmarn belongs to friends and we were invited to test it for free and then recommend it to our blog readers if necessary. You wouldn't get to read this blog article if we didn't really like it. Because honesty and incorruptibility are a matter of honor at Kleine Prints. But since we liked it very much, at the end of the article I have a great extra for all of you who urgently need a break!

Fehmarn, you beautiful!

Fehmarn, that is the beautiful Baltic Sea island, on which there are (supposedly) the most hours of sunshine in all of Germany every year! Whether that's true or not, one thing is fact: The island is a great destination for a weekend trip, especially for people from the surrounding federal states, but is certainly also suitable for a one to two week vacation. It is up to you whether you want to relax or be very active with kitesurfing, long walks and the like. Fehmarn offers everything a sea and nature lover's heart desires. This time we went for a lot of walks, including in the nature reserve "Grüner Brink" and on the steep coast. We had an incredible number of beautiful nature experiences, for example saw a lot of deer and deer. From our house we were able to watch the birds, which flew around in huge flocks and sometimes landed on the water again and again. Swans and geese were also among them. We even saw a really big bird of prey twice. Just wow! The long-standing nature protection on Fehmarn definitely seems to be paying off and has given us incomparably beautiful moments.

Activities on Fehmarn

As I said, the leisure activities on Fehmarn are really very good. There is the thermal bath "Fehmare"which we didn't use this time. At the time of our visit, only the wellness area was open, which is not so useful with a child. During one of our previous stays in Fehmarn we have also been to the Aquariumwhich is of course nice with children too! This time, apart from the time in nature and in our cozy villa, we were just a little stroll in the super cute city of Burg. There we have, among other things, the famous Fehmarn Teekontor stopped by and bought some delicious tea. We actually wanted to try the "best apple pie in the world" there, but unfortunately the café was closed. (Off season.) It is very recommendable to go out to eat Café grape, which has a great menu with organic dishes and is also extremely comfortably furnished. We also discovered Burkhard Terhaer's absolutely beautiful antique shop (Niendorfer Straße 11) in Burg, which I can warmly recommend to all junk fans! Nils and I really love junk and so we ended up in paradise again. We also got in touch with the owner there, who told us a bit about his exciting life story.

Insider tip for design fans

In addition, Mr. Terhaer pointed out a real Fehmarn design treasure whose importance is probably not known to many. There is namely on Fehmarn a holiday complex with three high-rise buildings from the late 1960s. Many consider these skyscrapers to be the absolute eyesore, but if you look closely they are actually pretty pretty. No wonder, because they were developed by the Dane Arne Jacobsen, one of my absolute favorite designers! That was actually a really unexpected design surprise for me. On the way back from Fehmarn to Hamburg we still have with "Karl's Adventure Village", a former strawberry farm in Warnsdorf, made a stop. In the meantime there are already several "Karls-Höfe"; they are like normal farms, only with a lot of action for children. Driving a tractor, riding a pony, bouncy castle, climbing, petting zoo, in winter ice stock sport and ice skating. Since Lotta loves the farms and everything that children can experience there so much, it has become a small tradition for us to stop by "Karl" when we are at the Baltic Sea. Otherwise, we didn't plan on much this time, because we just wanted to chill out - and for that we were really right in our accommodation!

Our dream accommodation: The Villas Fehmarn

As I said, we stayed with friends this time. More precisely in "The Villas", a small, very beautiful holiday home complex in Fehmarnsund. The various villas are all mega-stylish, modern and comfortably furnished. With their bright, quiet atmosphere, the beautiful houses make you relax by themselves - the great location and the unique sea view do the rest. If you want a really relaxed holiday by the sea, this is definitely the right place! We had the villa "White II" with an unobstructed view of the sea. There is even a panoramic view upstairs in the bedroom! Simply cool! For our winter weekend, of course, the chic fireplace, which we felt was almost always on, was perfect. Sand has been piled up between the individual villas and planted with dune grass, which just looks very pretty and is probably even better in summer ... Just go barefoot in the garden and stand in the sand - and the children can start digging straight away. A dream! The small barrel sauna is also great, from which you can look out into the green. Lotta was there too - her first sauna in her whole life! So it was really an all-round nice, relaxing winter weekend on Fehmarn for us.

Conclusion: refueling quickly on Fehmarn? It worked!

Although it has been proven that you only really recover after a few weeks of vacation, the weekend on Fehmarn definitely charged my batteries once! To see something different again, the beautiful surroundings, the good sea air, nature - that's just good, even if you only have two or three days to spare. I would do it again, maybe even as a Mom time out to relax with friends!

Would you like to relax by the sea? 10% discount!

As a little goodie for the friends of Kleine Prints, the "The Villas" team put a voucher code in our luggage: With the code KLEINEPRINTS you get a whopping 10% discount on your stay at The Villas. The code is valid for all overnight stays until May 31, 2019 and can be found on the website thevillas.de to be redeemed. By the way, you can also enjoy the relaxed vibes of TheVillas on Insta @ thevillas.de and Facebook immerse. Make sure to stop by there. But be careful: Can trigger acute travel fever! So then, sea lovers and chill professionals near and far: Have fun relaxing!

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Photo credits: All pictures come from Eva Malawska / Nils Elsner private, last picture (photo book for children): Team Kleine Prints using a picture from unsplash.com