Day: September 23, 2024

We were very lucky to have another beautiful day on the Baltic coast today. It’s kind of fun to look at the weather where we have been recently. Three weeks ago we were in Kiruna, Sweden. Today it is snowing there.

And four weeks ago we were sailing up the Norwegian coast. We belong to Facebook groups for the two companies that do that route. they have been having very bad weather the past week. Here is a Facebook post about it.

The two breakfasts buffets we have had in Germany have both had very good bread and they offer a basket for your bread. Very nice!

Today we did a lovely hike along the coast of the Nordperd Cape which is the easternmost point on the island of Rügen where we are staying. It was only about a 4 mile drive to get to where we started.

For dinner we walked down to the main street that ends in the pier and randomly picked a restaurant. We ended up at Gran Café Italia and had an excellent meal.

I thought it might be fun to share interesting, and unusual to us breakfast offerings. Sunday morning, at Strandhotel Seerose I couldn’t figure out what the flat round disks in the right bottom corner of the picture were. So I tried one. I’m still not sure. Duke suggested turnip and I think that’s the best guess.

After breakfast we went for a walk. This lady was renting beach chairs. You pay and get a key to your chair.

We checked out at about eleven and headed towards the island of Rügen. We had quite a bit of traffic leaving the island at the draw bridge. I think it had just been up and that’s what caused the backup.

Along our drive we saw this windmill and stopped to check it out. the first documentation of a windmill here was in the 1300s. It collapsed in 1972 and was rebuilt and became operable again in the 1990s.

We are staying on the eastern end of the island of Rügen at the Hotel Bernstein. We have been very lucky with the weather this last week. After checking in we went for a walk out to the end of the pier.

We had dinner in the hotel restaurant.