Nele and her friend Tim on a teeter-swing... well, a...
some kind of playground implement at the place we ate lunch.
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Glowe Bikeride
| By | on | at 11:00 AM |
The first thing we did on our first full day in Rügen was take a bikeride out to the cape. About 30 miles, round. Here are some things we saw along the way.
This modern hotel tucked away on top of a cliff in what must be the quietest corner of the island.
This lovely tree on some sort of old burial mound.
This grave wooden chap guarding the dangerous cliffs.
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| Photo by Martin |
Tapetenwechsel, KDR
| By | on | at 6:00 PM |
We arrive in Glowe in the evening. A traffic jam has made us later than expected. Here is our Ferienwohnung. Mom, Dad and I are already on vacation, but for Matthias, Anne, Oma and Nele, this other house by the sea is a much-needed Tapetenwechsel (changing-of-wallpaper).
The island of Rügen is known historically for having been the official vacation destination for the working class of DDR (East) Germany. Sectors of the island still have depressing rows of Communist-built vacation modules meant to provide the workers their annual Tapetenwechsel. The Party even had a catchy Orwellian slogan to capture the aspirations of the vacation program: "Kraft Durch Freude" (Power Through Joy).
Matthias and Anne were always commenting on what has improved on Rügen since the Wall fell 24 years ago. When Westerners were first allowed back into the East, the infrastructure was in a terrible state and houses like this didn't exist. A huge proportion of unified Germany's taxpayer money has thus gone into recovery: bringing the East back up to speed with the West. The island of Rügen is still in the process of upgrading from a Communist vacation destination to a Capitalist one.
Haus Über Dem Strand
| By | on | at 2:00 PM |
Haus Über Dem Stand (hueds.de) at the end of Am Heidberg. Our Uncle Matthias and Anne renovated the right half into three vacation flats, and my family stayed in all three of them over the course of our vacation.
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| Photo by Tyler |