terratin
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I couldn't do it because I don't care about dogs nor do I know anything about dogs or movies with dogs. So... I guess I'm not a tracker.
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5 hours ago, JakeDot said:
My first goal is finally visiting @terratin's Virtual on Alderney. Since there will be a Mega in London, on the edge between April and May, I'm combining the two into a Mega-Goal.
Whoops! I feel honoured! It's quite a lovely walk. And Alderney is fab and worth a few days anyway
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I guess my goal will be the same as every year: find ECs, visit nice geology, cache in new countries. The rest will happen, or not.
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I logged a WA on one such event and then moved away. When it was published again the owner made an announcement that they will delete all old logs and people should log a new WA. Was clear and easy.
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Wow, amazing photos Goldenwattle! Thanks for sharing.
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23 minutes ago, Breaktrack said:
And these are all still active?
Mac
Yep, I didn't add archived/disabled caches
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There you go
I've chosen all caches between Jan 2000 and Dec 2002
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13 hours ago, Goldenwattle said:
Yes, I drove almost 18,000 kms last car trip here in Australia.
A single car trip of 18k km?
Wow, that's totally something I could not imagine! And especially with current petrol prices in Western Europe.
Ok, lets think thus through. My wee car does about 5l/100km on relaxed longer distance rides. So that's 900l. At currently gas prices we're talking about 1800 Euro just for gas -
On 10/10/2022 at 8:46 PM, mustakorppi said:
I’ve only ever found one LPC, and it was round
Same here! LPCs are just not a thing in Europe. The real LPC was in Calgary. But I did play snow golf at a continental divide monument in the Rockies. Aim was to find info on a plaque on the ground. So dug hole into knee-deep snow. Nope. Next side: still nope. Third side: NOPE! Fourth side: yay! Guess that counts as a bogie.
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On 10/11/2022 at 10:01 AM, Kadse1337 said:
This summer was crazy, over the course of 3.5 months I interrailed through almost half of Europe (with pauses in between) and visited 20 countries, from which 17 I never cached in before. There were a lot of awesome caches on the way!
In chronological order: Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Liechtenstein, Italy, Vatican State, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia.
Now the only big area I'm still missing in Europe are the Balkan states, sadly train service there isn't that great.
Wow, what an amazing trip! For the Balkan countries bus services are really good and super affordable. Went from Montenegro to Dubrovnik and Mostar this summer and payed about 25 Euro and 40 Euro for a return, bought hours before the trip thus cheaper should be possible. It's not comfortable, and crossing borders takes ages as everyone needs to get off the bus when exiting, wait for everyone and the bus to pass through, get on again, repeat upon entering the new country. Also, buying the tickets is a bit of a hassle. If you're lucky you find someone at a bus station who speaks English (not very likely). Otherwise if you buy online you usually need to print the tickets somewhere. But I'm kind of considering traveling to the remaining Balkan countries this way.
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Project Fryslân planned for November. Few nights on the left red island, then a few nights in Leeuwarden with a visit to the right island, and the remaining missing municipalities will happen at various times during this trip
Also planned a visit to the oldest still operational planetarium in the world and a pumping station on the UNESCO list, and a surprise concert in the middle of nowhere in yet another historical pumping station. Plus I'll hopefully visit all remaining ECs apart from 2 or so that require a special boat charter or waddensea walk. Sounds like a perfect trip Now lets see what the weather is doing.
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When you find your summer vacation destination for next year
One new country and more ECs than I could do in 3 weeks
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On 9/20/2022 at 12:40 PM, baer2006 said:
I have thought about this, and I now expect that when the two caches are changed to "Poland", finders might lose "Russia" on their country list.
But would that be a problem? Those people never found a cache in Russia. Hey, I cheated, I know I cheated and I still keep my reward. Cool. But that discussion is moot anyway as the cache is archived and changed back to Poland.
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11 hours ago, funkymunkyzone said:
Tell me about it. From New Zealand it's getting really difficult to get new countries. "Low hanging fruit" for me have become the likes of Bali, Indonestia, Malaysia, even South Korea and Taiwan...
Just got back from the HQ20/22 etc - no new countries, but a couple of new states.
Yeah, sounds more difficult for you. Sorry
I could still spend my summer vacation on one of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man (or Greenland, should I suddenly get stinking rich). Got beaches, possibly sunny. Just not warm -
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Back home from a wonderful summer vacation. From now on finding summer vacation destinations in Europe, with nice weather, sea and a new country will be difficult. Bulgaria and Slovenia are still options, but I've looked at Bulgaria before and only found terrible, overrun mass tourism places. And Slovenia seems rather expensive. Maybe Albania, even if it's on my geomap already from a day trip. But I'd like to see more of that country. Oh dear.. the problems of someone who loves to visit a new country ever so often.
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Ok, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a fact after the most ridiculous trip ever (well, kind of only). Got up at 6:30, drove to bus station in Montenegro, waited for delayed bus. Bus arrived in Mostar with a delay of two hours, but that left me ample time to find a few caches, get a DNF, visit a marvelous Spomenik and just do some general sightseeing. Going back tomorrow, and based on this experience I don't really expect to be back before dinner.
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I always log in English, regardless of where I am and whether I speak the language or not. I don't know... it just happened that way. The logs are for me, and who knows, 30 years down the road I might have forgotten language xyz. However, if I know the language then I log will attends, needs maintenance, etc in the local language, and do send in EC answers in as well.
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You could put them on the ignore list, and when you're zoomed in enough you won't see them anymore. Simples.
Btw, judging by my stats I do seem to like ECs a wee bit
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Thank you! It's such a shame that there are so many genetic ECs out there. No need to actually read the text because it's always the same, no need to think about the questions.
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On my way to Montenegro now
With a bit of luck I'll somehow get to Mostar in Bosnia Herzegovina as well. I'm also hoping to visit Dubrovnik, but I have Croatia on my geomap already, as well as Albania and Serbia. Things are now starting to get a wee bit difficult from my home airport. I realized I could fly to Erbil in Iraq, which has been on my wishlist for ages for the citadel, but there aren't any caches. So.. Syria?
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On 7/9/2022 at 6:38 PM, Michaelcycle said:
I would be happy to be a character witness if you decide to appeal terratin.
(Not that the word of a rogue like me would carry much weight)
LOL! No need. I don't need an additional virtual to be honest. I mean, if I hiked for a few hours to log a virtual at the end of the world: fine. But an inner city, take a photo of whatever virtual is nothing special for me.
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s*** happens. I had a virtual log deleted last night, presumably because the log doesn't have a photo. I know I took a photo (not a nice one, but it's a photo) and likely uploaded it. Actually, not the first time one of my logs didn't have the photo that I'm sure I uploaded! As I tend to delete those kind of photos from my phone I can't upload my log again. Oh well, that's one virtual find less.
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Nice! I bet this was an amazing trip!
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I added Serbia to my list, caching mostly in Belgrade and Novi Sad. Have to say that Serbia was the most difficult country in Europe yet, because communication wasn't so easy. I only found out the last day that many people speak pretty good French. On the way back to the airport. Oh well...
One of the language difficulties: tried to buy a bus ticket from Belgrade to Novi Sad. Needed about 5 minutes to clarify that I wanted to travel today, and not in the evening but now. Then got a ticket. For a bus leaving in 4 minutes from one of the many bus stops. Argh! Fortunately, the bus was delayed after all.
This year will still add Montenegro, and maybe Bosnia and Herzegovina for a day trip, and that's all.-
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Wow, that's totally something I could not imagine! And especially with current petrol prices in Western Europe.
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Also planned a visit to the oldest still operational planetarium in the world and a pumping station on the UNESCO list, and a surprise concert in the middle of nowhere in yet another historical pumping station. Plus I'll hopefully visit all remaining ECs apart from 2 or so that require a special boat charter or waddensea walk. 
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I could still spend my summer vacation on one of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man (or Greenland, should I suddenly get stinking rich). Got beaches, possibly sunny. Just not warm 
Injuries Or Accidents While Geocaching?
in General geocaching topics
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Bruises, tumbles, hanging on a branch that breaks off and hits me on my head? All standard. The worst was a proper scare because I stumbled and managed to fall with my hand into an old syringe. Police of course didn't tell me there are medications you can take right after such injury and so I waited 3 more days until my gp was open again to discuss. Ugh. But yeah, all was fine.