On the first weekend in October I went on another trip with my mum, just one month after our trip to London. I had given her a trip to the island of Rügen for her birthday and Christmas a few years ago and we had wanted to go there in 2012, but then she broke her leg, and then I needed to finish up my PhD, went to Singapore, and ultimately we never managed to fit the trip in. But now it was time! My mum flew into Hamburg on a Friday night and we drove to Rügen by car on Saturday morning. It is about a three hour drive from Hamburg. The first surprise for me was the size of the island. Our hotel was in Baabe in the east of Rügen, and once we
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