A freak cooking accident – probably too much red wine in the bourguinon – resulted in a few cracked ribs. But what better place to recuperate than on the Soviet Riviera!

To absolutely, positively, ensure recovery, I checked-in to all three of the former East Prussian sanatoria above Kaliningrad: Svetlogorsk (formerly Rauschen), Zelenogradsk, (formerly Crantz) and [...]