Last year in September we spent an extended weekend on the Usedom island at the Baltic Sea  in NE Germany. We couldn’t go bathing but we had plenty of fun exploring the island and discovering its hidden misteries: the Butterfly Farm, the old Russian submarine at Peenemünde (a former Army Research Center during the World War II), the up-side-down house (the entire house is build and fully equipped with the up-side-down), trekking along the former German – Polish border (a sand stripe heavily mined before the Schengen agreement came into power eliminating the border formalities) and of course the delicious smoked fish along the beach.

Talking about beach… I definitely couldn’t just pass by without loading up a full bunch of 30 ml units, samples sorted out and added later to my Sand Atlas: light and fine, a classical “must have” bunch of beach sands (about 20 samples, most of them also available for trading).