Tuesday, September 2nd 2008

To the Baltic Sea and back

Two weeks vacation, leaving behind business and stress. Two weeks piece and recreation. Two weeks sea and sun.
I love to go South for holidays. But this time the family was the winner. I had to go North. The target was the island Hiddensee located in the Baltic Sea. We rented a house for the estimated two weeks. The location was ideal. The front-side of that house was facing the blue sea and the beautiful white beach.
As cars on the island are banned the only chance to move yourself  from one place to the other was to use your legs or rent a cycle. The first thing what we did after unpacking the suitcases, inspecting the house, walking to the beach, having a touch with the water was to rent a cycle.

My holiday-program was tightly packed with cycling, climbing the light-house, swimming, jogging along the beach, visiting the Gerhard-Hauptmann-House, testing the restaurants of the island, reading, tasting  bread rolls with fish at the harbour and enjoy the beautiful view with a glass of wine in my hand – relaxation pure.
Ok, the weather did not play “holiday”, but I was informed about via internet before I started this trip. And according the slogan “there is no bad weather but only wrong clothing”  I had no problems at all as I took everything with me what was essential to withstand the natural imponderabilities.

Houses covered with reed


Beach near Vitte

Harbour of Kloster

Beach impressions

Sun set. View from our villa

After two weeks we had done everything what had to be done: cycling through the island, climbing the light-house with the beautiful view from up there.

Lighthouse in Kloster

View from the lighthouse

Many times we went to the harbour enjoyed the fish rolls and watched the incoming and outgoing of the fisher-boats and the ferries. We visited the house of Gerhard Hauptmann where he lived and also his grave.

House of Gerhart Hauptmann

When the weather was not too cold we enjoyed the white beach, made a swim in the cold, clear sea and walked along the coast line. For dinner we visited all the restaurants around our house but the best food for us we found in „Godewind“ in Vitte.
Sometimes we cooked ourselves. Our favourite was the  Hiddensee-Roast.

Directions:

1. Heat oil in a pan and sauté it.
2. Take the joint out of the pan, season it with salt and pepper and spread it with mustard.
3. Coat the joint with bacon.
4. Put joint in a roasting tin, add some oil and roast it the oven (110°-120°) C for 3-3,5 hours.
5. Wash the fruits, seed them and cut them into halves, quarters six parts and eighths (it depends on the sizes of the fruits).
6. After 3 hours raise the temperature up to 200 ° C for 15 min.
7. Then lower temperature down to 110°C and add frutis and wine. Season fruits with sugar and cinnamon.
8. Add some gravy thickener if you want.
9. After 15 – 20 min the roast is ready.
10. Serve it with dumplings.