I had an action-packed 36 hours on the Baltic Sea this weekend, road tripping and exploring with friends. First time I've driven a car in almost 9 months, and driven stick in 11 months (vroom vroom). We had lovely walks and practiced our 'spirals' on windy, rainy, and sunny beaches, ate lots of fried things, sacrificed an iPhone to the saltwater Gods, saw the ugliest castle ever in Schwerin, made somewhere between 18 and 25 U- or K-turns trying to locate our middle-of-nowhere hotel, and listened to about a year's worth of German pop radio!