Rügen Island

We are off on a new adventure. This time we chose a bicycle trip on the sunny island of Bornholm. The ferry departs on Sunday from Sassnitz. We decided to spend Saturday on the German island of Rügen.

About the ferry - it was a funny situation. When we wanted to book the ferry tickets, we saw that the Saturday crossing was already sold out. It was a very strange situation because the ferry is not a small one. We needed to postpone our crossing by one day.

The island of Rügen is a favorite holiday destination for Germans. We could feel it on the highway and the main road, which had become a huge traffic jam. We accessed the island via a huge bridge Rügenbrücke. The drive across the bridge looks like this:

Seeing the traffic situation, we had to modify our route to avoid the slow-moving traffic. We decided to partly take the local roads. Unfortunately, the main road on the island, the B96 (E251), was a nightmare.

Fun fact: the Rügenbrücke bridge opened in 2007. The bridge itself is 2,831 m long, and the whole new crossing over the Strelasund strait is 4.1 km. Its pylon is 128 m high.

We drove around, through the town of Putbus, at the center of which is a market square shaped like a roundabout, surrounded by buildings. We reached the first village that we wanted to explore - Sellin, where we took a short walk to the sea.

Rügen is Germany's largest island. It hides many curiosities, which we will cover in future posts …