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terratin

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  1. Keeping things simple-ish and combining visiting a concert elsewhere with a trip to Jersey and Sark in summer. If this doesn't make sense: no, it doesn't, other than being near an airport that gets to me to Jersey cheaply
  2. Your phone or computer uses the same coordinates as a gps for everything. Otherwise, where would locations come from? Heck, type a random address in any map application, and the coordinates are there, see this for example. Ok, it's a different data format than geocaching uses, but still coordinates. Just for fun (and some learning) here are various (not all) coordinate systems and conversion methods: https://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/index.php?lang=en&page=coordinateConversion or type by hand various coordinates in various formats into google maps instead of an address. You'll get there as well.
  3. Biggest surprise for me: Apparently I found caches in 14 countries last year. And despite not caching a lot I still managed to find 10 cache types. And I only awarded 10 favourite points.
  4. Just a note in case you're used to Cachly: it's not available for Android but only for iOS.
  5. All right, next to Azerbaijan and a Canary Island for summer I just happen to get confirmation for a flight to Budapest. No idea how that happened 🤣 Surprisingly I've never been to Hungary. It's probably the lowest-hanging fruit left in Europe for me. Which I think only leaves Monaco, San Marino and Andorra (all a headache to get to from here), some Channel Islands and Isle of Man (even more of a headache from here), Greenland (someone want to donate to my fundraiser?) and Russia, Belarus and Ukraine (yeah).
  6. What new countries did you visit in 2023, and what are your travel plans for 2024? I was injured for most of 2023 but still managed to travel quite a lot (could not drive car but at least could use all sorts of public transport). And hence I got a new record of new countries: Bulgaria, Northern Macedonia, Estonia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Egypt, Switzerland, Slovenia and Armenia. Now things are getting a bit more difficult in Europe for me. I think I'm still missing 11 European countries, and they are either too expensive to get to, in a conflict zone or too complicated to get to from here. I did finish the year with adding a few new municipalities in Northern Germany and Denmark though. The only new country planned for next year is Azerbaijan. The rest... we'll see.
  7. I have very few goals as I surpassed my goals for 2023 and won't be able to repeat or surpass them. Healed from injury and find a few caches? Check. Visit a few new countries? Got 9 new ones So I guess my goal for 2024 is to find a few caches and get a few new countries.
  8. True, and the topics keep on repeating, and many aren't really that great. I'm a completist and a geologist, thus I do them anyway 😬
  9. Nice! Cache finds in Spain are on Number 6 position for me, and I'd hoped to spend my summer vacation on Sardinia but I just didn't find the right accommodation there within my budget. No nice ice cream and pizza then. But hey, a few more Spanish caches won't hurt.
  10. I decided on my summer vacation. Not a new country, but a Canary Island I've not been to yet
  11. Yep, can confirm I've not uploaded photos because I would not know how to resize them on my phone without taking a lesser quality to start with, which I won't be doing as I don't take these photos for cache logs but as a memory for myself. The 5GB limit really is somewhat s***e. And on that note will be a lot more s***e for caches where photos are a requirement, like some virtuals and ECs.
  12. Good question... I hate mystery caches when I travel somewhere and pretty much all caches in town are mysteries. I just don't want to sit around at home and solve puzzles of whatever type to find a micro under a garbage bin if I can do the micro under the bin without a puzzle. Well thought out puzzles are fine, but of the 'I'm so clever and you'll never guess the answer', jiggedy or 'google facts about a tv show I never heard about' just don't appeal to me at all. Challenges are fine. Bonus caches.. depends. I hardly ever do adlabs or power trails of sorts. But a nice hike with nice containers here and there, and then a final big bonus cache: yeah.
  13. After thinking for a few days I decided that I'll have to visit Azerbaijan. Flight is booked for spring next year
  14. Back from Amernia. What a beautiful country! I will certainly have to return one day. Also found a few caches. Next idea: I found out there are some rather affordable flights to Azerbaijan next year. Still a bit undecided though
  15. I feel seen Mind you, there are quite a few ECs that require some kitchen experiments involving vinegar or diluted hydrocholoric acid. Yeah, I always read the description and bring the kit that I need along on the trip. pH strips, thermometer, small container to collect samples, nose spray bottle of vinegar (mark it! putting it in your nose is not fun), handlense and other stuff.
  16. Must have gotten the update yesterday or today as I just logged a cache and got confused. Was first thinking of a browser mistake as I could not see the opt in banner anymore, and I was still able to log an owner maintenance with a meaningful text. All works I'd say. Photo upload is as fast/slow as ever and the image size straight from my phone works. So glad the automatic owner maintenance texts are gone. They were just totally rubbish, both I suppose as an owner and as a cacher who tries to figure out what's wrong. Thanks a lot GS. Looks good. Only comment: The usual whitespace 😅
  17. I just ‘found’ a large at the info desk of an airport. An inside attribute might actually be useful, though geocaching is an outdoor game and i don’t really see that happening
  18. Last new country of the year ahead. Currently on Dortmund airport to fly to Armenia. I'm super curious. Also wondering about where to spend my summer vacation next year, and Sardinia might be high on my list, with still half warm weather in September, lots of EarthCaches, a super marvelous geology and interesting archaeology. Just can't decide on the right location. North or south? Not sure yet.
  19. Does this indicator exist? Never noticed it. I usually search for popular caches on project-gc.
  20. Nice one! You've got San Marino, Andorra and Gibraltar already? Monaco is still missing for me but I just can't get easily towards Nice or anywhere around there. Today I added Slovenia on a whim by walking over the border from Croatia over a small mountain path. The old border barrier was still there. I'll do at least another day trip to Slovenia, thus according to my own odd rules this is fine as I normally never cross a border to just bag another country. Just undecided on what to do: I could spend a night in Ljubljana or drive to Trieste for a day. At the moment Italy is triggering me more though.
  21. Yes, same problem. So many capchas despite thinking I got every single pixel.
  22. It's cold, stormy, and the weather alternates between drizzle and storm, or torrential rain and storm. Have not seen drizzle with torrential rain though. Was tempted to turn on the heating a few times in the morning as it was only 17C inside. Yeah, it's summer here.
  23. It's also blocked, unfortunately. Fortunately I can right-click when sending EarthCache answers, but I can't open an external link in a cache description through this. My thought is that it might be due to the 'do you really, really want to enter the evil world of the internet and leave gc.com? click here..."thingy, which obviously is not present when wanting to send someone a message.
  24. Touch pad, which has a right and left click area, but not a middle click (maybe windows has a special setting for that). But yeah, right click should totally not be hijacked and I don't want to stay in the same tab.
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