A last view back on Slot Kronborg at the danish side of the Öresund and after a short while we are leaving the Danish straits and enter the Kattegat. Although the wind still blows with moderat 4 Beaufort we feel that it is moving water on a larger area than before. The landscape is changing slightly as well turning in more rocks and leads prominent vegetation.
30.5 NM later we reach Torekov a famous summer seaside resort. Here we get a real feeling of long relaxed summer days. The place is busy but not crowded and everyone is laid-back.
At a place, which is surrounded by old houses and where the base of an old church can be seen in the ground we learned the story of St. Thora, who gave Torekov it's name.
Thora was a beautiful princess, who was send out at the Baltic Sea on a ship, which her evil stepmother prepared to sink. Thora drowned and was wash on the beach, where the blind fisherman Frenne found her corpse laying next to a stone west of the contemporary harbor. He picked her up and buried her. This act of mercy caused that Frenne got his sight back. Out of gratefulness he build a small chapel, which was later in the early medieval extended into a church. The church unfortunately burned down during a big fire in 1858 and was not rebuild. Only the base was kept for remembrance and the place is now a meeting point for long summer evenings, sitting outside in one of the restaurants around the place or having a delicious ice creme and let the children play there.
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