Steffi and I took a short trip end of October 2005 to Greetsiel on the North sea coast just to get away for a few days.  A “Siel” is a flood gate in the dike leading to many canals so Greetsiel had a  harbor and a fleet of shrimp boats although the actual sea was quite far away. It is a quaint fishing village that has become a populat tourist town when artists settled there.  It has also been used as a  background for films.  The mud flats of the area is a national park and wildlife reserve and is one of its kind in the world.  A great place to forget the everyday worries.  We were lucky because the  season ended Nov 1. when many things closed and we went home. Our hotel Scenes from town: A   tea    house Shrinp boat One of the twin working windmills The canals, the dikes, the mud flats, the sea and the sky