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Okay, I hope it'll work now that the pic is directly in the post.

A rural bus stop in Northern Germany. There's a micro cache hidden in there. Armchair caching at its best, I could literally reach and log the cache while sitting on the armchair .

A very interesting thread! This is a mausoleum built in 1902 for the family of a rich land owner. Several coffins can be placed in there. The right to use it for this family has now expired, and if one is interested (and has the necessary cash) they can buy the right to use the mausoleum for soandso many years. This is at a large cemetery in Kiel, Germany. Larger old cemeteries here are like parks with many trees, and people go there for taking a walk. There's a multi cache with QTA-stages, and the final is in a remote part of the cemetery where there are no graves.

I once solved (or at least thought I had solved) a puzzle cache. Searched for about 20 minutes until I gave up. I proceeded along the path, and about 1 kilometer from the calculated coordinates where I had searched in vain I was magically attracted by a hollow tree stump. I had never ever before randomly checked possible cache hiding places, but I just HAD to check out that one! Especially since there were a few other unsolved puzzles in the area. So I looked into the stump, removed a piece of tree bark and held a cache in my hands! Turned out it was actually the one I'd been looking for, I had mad some mistake!

We say TSEE-TOE

Bonjour, I understand your question, but I'm unable to write an answer in French. The answer you got from the previous poster is correct! For further questions I suggest you could use the French forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=41

Sorry!!! Here it is: http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC595B7_corax

Here's an example of a cache with English description translated by an online translator. I guess it can be understood....one mistake occurred, because they wrote the German word incorrectly, the other mistakes are due to the incapability of the automatic translator.

That's great, well done!

Same here! Some of the most creative and technically best made caches in my area have listings with poor spelling and grammar. Nobody has ever complained, because the caches are just great!

"Correct spelling and grammer are nice to see as well." This is cute

Near my city there is a parking and resting site by a highway which is known for men going there to find random other guys in order to have sexual intercourse. Somebody placed a cache there with the attribute "suitable for children". After some cachers had complained about having been approached by strangers during their search with the words "are you looking for the same thing that I am looking for?", the CO wrote about this situation in their listing and changed the attribute to "not suitable for children". So everybody is warned and can decide whether they still want to go for that cache or not. I don't, but if others want this drive-in for their statistics that's their choice. I think parking lots of strip clubs or porn stores are comparatively harmless as long as they are not in an otherwise dangerous area.

Last night I found a little ziplock bag with crumbs of dried herbs and a paper (for making a joint). I don't know whether it was real drugs or just a stupid joke, most likely the latter. Anyway, I removed that stuff from the cache.

Hi Stormshine, the option c (which you're already using) is definitely the most appropriate one for a native English speaker. Never use option d, online translators suck badly! Many or even most German cache owners will be able to understand English well enough to at least get the gist of your English log. Quite a few others will understand and appreciate the details that you will only be able to write in English. ALL will appreciate some words in German. I'm German, and that's the best approach here in my opinion. For cachers with mother tongues other than English it depends on whether their native language is widely understood in the country, in which the cache is located. For example I'm planning on making a short trip across the border to Denmark (just 1 hour drive for me) to do a new trail in a forest there. In that region many Danes also speak German as their native language (due to a history of shifting borders) or are at least bilingual, and most Danes also know English very well. So I'm planning on writing logs in German and English (same content) as well as adding something in Danish like "thanks, nice cache" (which I'd have to look up first). In countries in which I can't expect many people to understand German I'd go for a detailed log in English and add a few words in the local language if possible. I'd also do this in the Spanish mainland in non-touristy areas. As for the cache on Gomera that's a special case as it's a very touristy spot. From what I can see the cache owner is not from Spain and neither are any of the finders so far. Looks like Germans logged in German, English, or both, and English-speaking folks logged in English. If I was the cache owner (who is apparently from the Netherlands) I'd ask someone to translate the listing into the local language in addition to English. Being a German cacher I'd log in English and German (after all at least 50% of the other finders are German, so other Germans who don't understand English will also be able to read my logs). I'd also add something like "muchas gracias por la cache, muy bien" (which is probably not correct and won't mean much to the cache owner who didn't make any effort to translate his listing himself). I'm also planning on caching in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The trickiest will be Luxembourg, I'll have to include 4 languages in order to fullfil option c!

I don't know where you live, but in some countries there is a universal key for public restrooms for people with handicap. In Germany there is a cache with a box that can only be opened with such a key that many handicapped people have. I just googled it, and the UK and Australia seem to have similar systems.

Great idea! I'm planning the same thing! One idea that I have seen several times is using a magnet foil and sticking a laminated paper that looks like some kind of sign or information (not official road sign, of course) onto the front. Attach the whole thing onto a metal surface and put a logsheet in between. Here are pics: http://derschnellelinus.blogspot.de/2013/12/magnetfolien-cache.html . Of course this would only be a micro or better "other". You can also print a small GC logo onto it. So it's visible for cachers but not for muggles. Of course attach it at a height that cachers in a wheelchair will be able to reach it!

So I may or may not feel offended by the following American cachers who may or may not be aware of the meaning of their user names: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=5e63fb3e-b813-483e-bb43-41a061960088 http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=fe074a0f-3e16-42e3-91e7-4fa27125d7db http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=bbfa90f9-b696-41fa-a000-36f968506a67 http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=e759128f-cfb6-4b40-8709-20f253e6f07f No, I don't feel offended! I actually feel sorry for the last guy, because, quite obviously, that is also his real name. I hope you get my point!

I'll take a trip to Denmark which is only a one hour drive. And perhaps I'll drive to the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

Do it! Nairobi has a fair amount a caches for an African city (outside of South Africa). There's a local cacher (SawaSawa) that has hidden quite a few in the last year. I've been through Nairobi airport three times but so far haven't been out of the airport. It's a fairly major hub for KLM, Turkish, and Swiss airlines. On the other hand, Nairobi has a reputation for being somewhat dangerous. There are some places where you just want to go at night. There are some places where you probably don't want to go during the day. However, the same could be said for Johannesburg, Cape Town, and many other African cities. My parents will move to Nairobi this year, and I'm looking forward to visiting them in 2015 or 2016. The caches there look quite interesting and are located in tourist areas like the museum or small forest. I'll go there with my parents anyway, since I'm not courageous (or crazy) enough to drive in a large African city (on the left side of the road!).

Moin tiniundheinz! Glückwunsch zu den ersten Caches! Ihr habt ja hier schon super Tipps bekommen! Noch eine Idee wäre, mal zu einem Event zu gehen oder die Cacheowner oder Vorfinder anzuschreiben. So lernt Ihr andere Cacher aus der Gegend kennen und könnt evtl. mal mit erfahrenen Cachern auf Tour gehen! So lernt man viel dazu! Und früher oder später bekommt man dann den "Cacherblick" und wünscht sich kompliziertere und raffiniertere Verstecke! Gruß aus Kiel und noch viel Erfolg!

I know several cachers who do almost all of their caching tours by bike. Here in Germany quite a few people don't possess a car, and the roads are very bicycle-friendly (bike paths almost everywhere). I did one tour with a friend a bit further away to a rural area where there's a high cache density with top-notch caches (sort of a high quality power trail). We loaded the bikes onto his car and slept in a tent for two nights. This way we could find as many of those cool caches during that time as possible. It was a great tour except for hundreds of mosquito bites, two ticks, and a bleeding elbow. But I do most of my tours by going somewhere by car and then walking to several caches from where I park. Unfortunately my bike doesn't fit into my small car!

Last year I found two caches that were only about 40 ft apart from one another. One is a traditional (GC3R5JN) and one a mystery final. There is a guardrail in front of this small port, and the cache containers were both magnetic micros at either end of this guardrail (not very creative...). The story behind this is: the predecessor of the current traditional was there in the first place. About a year later the mystery final was placed in addition to it. Both of them coexisted for almost 3 years until the traditional was archived, because its owner had moved to the US an could thus not maintain the cache. Later the current traditional was placed by a new owner at the same spot as a reload. Again both caches coexisted for 1.5 years. Occasionally people would mention the proximity in their logs, but most found it amusing. So did I (made up for the crappy hiding spots and containers). Nobody reported it to the reviewers who had published a cache within a few steps to another not once but twice! And this was in Germany, the land of rules an regulations - go figure ! Earlier this year the mystery was archived by its owner (along with the other 2 caches of this mini-series). Not because of the distance issue, but because someone had complained about the quality and the fact that they'd gotten themselves dirty during the search . Edit: "guardrail" is the correct term (copied from the previous poster).