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The beach chair has a door
On the German Baltic and North Sea coasts the beach is furnished with Strandkörbe — hooded wicker chairs the size of a small sofa, with a canopy that shields you from the wind, a footrest, a little table and sometimes a lockable door. They are rented by the day or the week from an attendant, they have numbers, and people are territorial about theirs. The design dates from the 1880s and exists because the German seaside is windy and cool rather than Mediterranean; the point is to sit outdoors comfortably in sixteen degrees. The other coastal fixture is the Sandburg, a sandcastle built not as a tower but as a circular wall around your patch, often decorated with shells and flying a small flag. Germans holiday domestically far more than the stereotype of the Mallorca charter flight suggests — the Baltic coast, the Alps and the Black Forest carry enormous numbers of German families every August, which is also when the motorways are worst.