Yesterday afternoon started my X-mas holiday until January 5th 2009. The ideal time to do some extra hunting. I started with a cache that I’ve been looking for a week earlier. As mentioned in a previous blog, I couldn’t find it due some deviation problems with my GPSr. At least I though so. Freggie confirmed that I was indeed the right neighbourhood. So I did a second attempt as a kind of appetizer for the end of year lunch with some colleagues. Read more…
I must admit I didn’t hear about the term ‘muggle’ before I started geocaching. I’m not into Harry Potter and similar stories. Some people don’t like the term and like to refer to a non geoaching person. It doesn’t sound that good, but I don’t mind using both terms. It’s the same thing with the term stash. Read more…
Weekends are usual very busy and is dictated by the son’s agenda. Saturday morning: bringing him to the judo training. Meanwhile I make quick purchases at the butcher and the grocery store for a couple of days and pick him up again an hour later. Saturday noon: making lunch, eat and bring the son to keyboard lesson, stay there for 20 minutes and heading home again. Afternoon: the wife wants to do some shopping. Sundays are dictated by the scouts activities of the son. We usually search a cache the time we have between dropping of and picking up the son. Read more…
I’m disappointed, very disappointed. I had – in my eyes – a good idea for a cache and I was in the middle of gathering information for the story/background info when I was suddenly aware that it can’t be realised. At least not in the form I intended to be. Since the place is historical and the possible high amount of muggles, a physical cache wasn’t possible. So why not a virtual cache where people must take a picture of themselves with a GPSr in their hand and e-mail an answer on a question about the location. A good example of this is the earth cache I visited, as mentioned in earlier blog. Read more…
Today was Wodanza day. In preperation to the WWFM IV Leuven (Flashing the Bug) event GC1HJ24, I decided to tackle a few caches authored by him in order to learn more about him. You know a geocacher by his stashes. If that saying doesn’t exist yet, it must be invented 
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I decided that I needed a moral boost after the problems I encountered with the Poezie cache. Therefore I listed 5 possible traditional caches I could do after I dropped my son at the scouts. The advantage of ‘traditionals’ is off course is that you only need to drive/go to the pre-set coordinates and thus no mistakes from my side before one can search Read more…
Day 2 of my stay at Landal, Reuver, Netherlands. It seems that nobody wants to do a geocache hunt today. So I decided to discover two mystery caches by King Egdar: Happy Birthday Mr. Escher GCY82K and De Digitale Code GCXH56. I prepared these two caches earlier. I was alwasy fascinated by Escher’s art and I found the solution rahter smoothly. De Digitale Code was something else. Despite I solved the first part, I couldn’t ficure out what to do with it. A hint from Edgar has put me on the track again. Read more…
I’m staying a weekend at Landal, Reuver, Netherlands. An excellent way to explore some caches abroad. I convinced my friends to join me and so we selected Kasteel Hillenraad, Swalmen GC11992. It started rather nice with a beautiful castle. A pity we couldn’t visit it. I thought we would see others on the road, but I didn’t see any, which is a bot of a dispointment. Read more…
Today, an ex-colleague and I are going to a show by Nigel Williams, a Anglo-Belgian standup comedian. I asked Luc if he wasn’t interested in doing a cache in the neighbourhood and he agreed. I had choosen 2 caches and we choose De wereld van Jonas GCV8T1 to start with. Despite being nearly half october the weather was summer like and it showed. A lot of people were walking in this provincial domain, which is as such a difficulty when you are looking for something that ‘outsiders’ may not know about. The tags were easy to find and we had quickly figured out the end coordinates. Read more…
