Today I'd like to tell you briefly how helpful people are here.

As Steffi already reported, we got a bit stuck in the sand last night. This was another perfect example of how believing is not knowing. At work, I regularly preach that you should check your assumptions and make them measurable before putting something into practice, but on vacation I don't follow my own advice. This time it went wrong. My assumption was that our rental vehicle had front-wheel drive. So it shouldn't be a problem if I put the rear wheels a bit on the sand. As long as the front wheels are still on solid ground, we shouldn't have any problems. Well, wrong thinking! This car has rear-wheel drive and as soon as I even slightly put the wheels on the sand, we were stuck! What does that tell us again: don't assume, but prove your assumptions!

Since I've never gotten a vehicle stuck before, let alone thought about what to do in such cases, I naturally had no clue what to do. Where is my brother, the off-road enthusiast, when you need him. But since we were at a campsite and there were many other campers in sight, after the first failed attempt, I decided to wait until the next morning and not make it worse.