Those recliners are ubiquitous along the beaches in Germany. Home base on sunny days, shelters on windy days and storage for toys and other paraphernalia over night. Many German childhood memories revolve around this rented chair and long summers.Anything from the forgotten shovel to that stolen kiss in later years. It is so synonymous with German beach life that the inevitable group photograph of the heads of state meeting for the G8 summit in 2007 was taken in one of these.