A Long Weekend in Rügen Island, Germany
For our "big trip" in July, we went to Rügen Island on the Northern coast of Germany. I will refer to it as the "Cape Cod of Germany." There are many different resort-style towns on the island. We stayed in one of the more affordable ones called Binz. I met up with Mr. E at the Frankfurt International Airport, where he disembarked and we embarked on our 55-minute flight to Berlin on Lufthansa. It was so easy, that I can image we will fly to different places in Germany in the future if we don't have the time to take the train. From Berlin Tegel airport, we took a bus to the Berlin train station, where we hopped on a nice train that took us all the way to Binz. We hung out in the bar cart and had a wonderful time. After we arrived, it was a ten-minute walk to our spa hotel, where we were greeted with a spread of fresh fruit and champagne in our room. We were also given beach towels, robes and slippers (for the spa). The downside of the room was a lack of ai...