Vooruit!
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On 1/11/2024 at 5:26 PM, Vooruit! said:
Planned for this year:
February: Monaco
June/July: Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan
August: Cyprus
And who knows? I might do a roadtrip to San Marino. 🥳🎉
August: CyprusAugust: Gibraltar and Morocco
Fun of course, though Gibraltar seems quite a hazzle with the parking-in-Spain-and-walking-across-the-border and stuff?
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Planned for this year:
February: Monaco
June/July: Hong Kong, Macau, China and Taiwan
August: Cyprus
And who knows? I might do a roadtrip to San Marino. 🥳🎉
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Added Moldova. I ended up riding to Chișinău anyway, which was sort of a double-edged sword. The traffic is absolutely crazy out there, had to shorten my cache wishlist bigtime, as I was so sick of the slow pace. On the positive side, I managed to get an FTF!
My stay in Iaşi was average, the traffic is just as bad out there. All these cities could be so much nicer if there were some nice bicycle infrastructure out there. Car-centered cities are awful!
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I remember some years ago I read quite a story on GC53, but now that I'm looking it up on the map, it doesn't seem that big of a deal? Maybe a bit of a handwave, depending on roads that OpenStreetMap pretends to be there.
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Planned a trip to Iaşi (RO) with a border crossing to Moldova. Anyone who visited Chișinău (the capital) can confirm/debunk whether that would be worth the ride (2.5 hours)?
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I'm actually working on stuff for which no challenge exists, and probably never will:
- complete the virtual D/T matrix
- complete the earth cache D/T matrix
- find 1000 large caches
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Added Greece (Rhodes) and Turkey (one day boat trip to Marmaris, which was truly awful - both the boat and the city).
Planned for July: Spain and Andorra.
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Would like to add that I really liked the Annette Lake Trail, so although it may be a plan B, you'll probably enjoy it.
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The cache has been archived for a long time, so spoilers are ok I guess: GC3Y3RB was by far the scariest one, a chopped off, bloody head inside of a pannier (on a left-alone bike in the middle of town).
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BKO has got 2 caches, one is already in the list, this one isn't: https://coord.info/GC7RW20
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Stockholm definitely looks feasible. 3.5 hours sounds like more than enough do the job. All depends how busy security is of course. There's also a virtual out there that actually can be done behind security.
Copenhagen has got a virtual as well, but this one is before security. Considering your layovers, I would do the Stockholm virtual and a physical cache outside as well. For Copenhagen, oh well, actually the same. Go for it.
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Just checked off Bulgaria and Macedonia. Sofia was horrible for caching; if I have to believe local cache listings, there's a cache thief in town. I could hardly find any physical container.
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TGD (Podgorica) also has an airport cache: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC9PBH5_airport-podgorica-tgd.
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My only 'missed opportunity' is Monaco.
One day, I'll have to visit San Marino, and I'll just make sure to make a stop in Monaco on the way. No biggie.
As for other travel plans, next week I'll conquer Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and later this year I'll visit Greece, Turkey, Spain and Andorra.
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I guess the 2021 topic has been archived or something, pretty certain that topic did exist.
My goals for 2023:
* Make some more dents in my Earthcache and Virtual fizzy. 16 and 32 D/T combinations missing, respectively. Really the toughest challenge ever.
* Add some more countries. Greece and Turkey are planned, a trip to Andorra and Monaco is in the making.
* Just continue geocaching the way I started to some years ago: go for the larger ones, ignore the small ones. Should find my 750th Large cache next year.
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Creating a survey is like creating a mystery cache: everyone can do it, but it takes skill to create a good one.
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Don't bring your own
But of course, actually you have to bring it to be able to log (I think?). So, both a good name and a bad one I guess?
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Fun fact, according to https://project-gc.com/w/Badge_Statistics, there's still no one with a Virtual fizzy. On the contrary, the Earthcache fizzy has been done by 30 cachers.
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That will be kuschelchen, he's only missing the 5/4.5 D/T rating, and I know he has plans for that particular one. Look at this beauty:
I'm working on it myself too, but man, is this the hardest challenge ever. Still 33 ratings to go.
Another fun one is the earthcache fizzy. Slightly easier, but still 17 to go.
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Back from our holiday in Montenegro, an amazing country. Of course, I couldn't resist doing a day trip to both Bosnia-Hercegovina and Albania.
I managed to convince (that's how it works, right?) my family our next trip definitely should be to Kos (Κως), from which it's only a half an hour of ferry to Turkey.
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On 5/18/2022 at 11:08 PM, K13 said:
I couldn't know that, you didn't mention Prague in your OP. Regardless, it is beyond likelihood there will ever be a Mega as a side event to a Giga.
The giga in Prague has been postponed several times. On the previous date (September 4th) there was a Mega planned in Stuttgart. I actually had plans to visit both on the same day, for a total of 16 types.
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22 hours ago, GerandKat said:
We believe the question is intended towards a busy1315 icon day on May 14th on the way to the Giga in Prague...We've seen a lot of strange events and Citos early on that day on mayor roads towards prague (even 400mi from that Giga away), but there is still a Mega missing that day.
FTFY
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Just added Romania and Serbia. I was a bit scared of the border crossing, as I've never left the EU by car, but it actually was the smoothest I've ever done (except for Schengen borders of course). Less than 5 minutes either way.
Planned for 2022: Czechia, Montenegro and Albania.
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One day, I'll have to visit San Marino, and I'll just make sure to make a stop in Monaco on the way. No biggie.
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Signed physical log, but met the requirements after Archival?
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There are / have been reviewers out there that do not agree with this, most notably in Belgium.