Get thee to Rügen!

Rügen has definitely been a major discovery this year. It is a German island in the Baltic Sea, where Germans have traditionally spent their holidays... until they discovered Mallorca.

We have been twice to the island, and have explored twice Jasmund National Park (Unesco Biosphere Reserve-thing), and nothing else. We are aware that there are other nice spots around, but it is soooo nice.

Train: From Lübeck it takes 4 hours (if DB does not collapse in the meantime) to get to Sassnitzt, the closes town to the National Park.
Car: From Lübeck it takes allegedly 2 hours to get to Sassnitz. The bottle neck is the bridge that connects the island with the mainland in Stralsund, and that puny little main road within the island, where everybody is on.

Within the island, they pride themselves to have a bus network. Well... if you are planning to take the bus after 17:00 on a weekend, you had better check there is a bus at all.

Accomodation: expensive. Lots of places charge you extra if you stay less than 3 nights. How many nights are there in a weekend? The place I come from, two at most.