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Hi This morning I woke up early in order to get my first souvenir of the #Geocaching15 series. I logged it at 8:40 AM CET. To my surprise, I didn't get automatically the souvenir on my iPhone. Back home I checked again and still nothing. Till I realized that, in the website, my log is dated 18th July, that is, yesterday. So I changed manually to the 19th and I got my souvenir. Anyway, it seems that PST is the time zone defining "today" or "yesterday". Is that a bug, a "feature", or did I misconfigure something somewhere? Thanks

So, as earlier mentioned, today I had a looong layover in ZRH, that allowed me after I don't know how many transits in Switzerland, to finally log a few caches in this country. To be honest I was surprised about how nice Zurich actually is ! And of course thanks to GC I discovered a Botanic garden, the old town, a few nice parks ... Next stop should be Luxembourg, after 23 countries, it's about time to visit the neighbours

Right now writing from Timisoara (Romania) where I just collected my 22nd Country My next country should be Switzerland in a couple of weeks. This one I'm "forcing" it a bit, I planned a extra-long layover at ZRH to FINALLY log a cache there. It's frustrating being time after time in ZRH but always as a hub between home (BRU) and somewhere else in this planet. A 6 hours layover .. should certainly do it. And indeed I was planning as well the webcam .. but apparently 1 month too late Btw, I fully understand the reason why the cache was archived, if you look at the log photo's you'll find everything (selfies, landscapes, hands) except what the webcam is supposed to be, a snapshot from an internet site with your picture on it, so it's a pity, but fully understandable

Just back from Copenhagen. Perfect destination for easy-tourist caching: Little Mermaid, Rosenborg, Botanic Gardens, Nyhaven, you name it !! Next stop Romania, in a couple of weeks

Hi, Back from my "romantic" weekend in CPH. The weather was fantastic, the city really nice, the restaurants amazing, and the caches ... pretty cool. A shame than the one in "Amalienborg" seems missing, but we found a few easy in nice areas: Little Mermaid, Tivoli, Rosenborg Castle, Botanic Gardens, Nyhaven... definitely a very good caching destination as well !!

Hi, I have a bit of a special request. Next week I'll go with my wife for a long weekend in Copenhagen. This is my first trip to Denmark as a geocacher, and having already cached in 20 countries .. Denmark HAS TO be my 21st. Now, as mentioned I'm going with my wife, without kids and she's NOT a geocacher. So, I hope you start to get the picture. I may be "allowed" to cache "a bit", but they must be easy ones (she doesn't quite enjoy when I spend 15 min trying to grab a magnetic nano under a bench in a busy street) and in a nice area (btw, we"ll be staying close to Amalienborg, but of course walking up and down the center of the city). So .. any hints are more than welcome!!

Just come back from a business trip to Dublin. Between the busy schedule I had a bit of time to "enjoy" the rain, and do a few caches, Stiffy, the Webcam, and during a morning run a couple in the Phoenix park. To little time to do much more, but anyway, my 20th country .. is done. Next stop Denmark ... next week

I'm a bit surprised to read that. In Belgium, condition 1: is MANDATORY. I wasn't allowed to publish my own challenge cache (about Airport caches) until I could prove that I was fulfilling the ALR, and honestly .. I think that's fair enough

..when one of your (easy) caches is somebody else's first find ever. Reading those logs always brings a smile to my face

Thanks!

Hi, I've been caching for a couple of years and have 700+ founds, so I'm not a full newbie, but still I was thinking this may be the right forum to place the question. And that is "what is the point of "your friends" tab?" When I started caching I made two "friends" and a bit later somebody else sent me an invitation that I politely accepted. Now, I still don't know what's the point of that thing. I mean, I don't know what I should expect (notifications when they find something, chatting forums,compared statistics, whatever ....) but fact is that I have those three names in my tab... and that's it, right? Or am I missing something? Thanks in advance

Well, obviously I got no feedback Nevertheless just to mention that I had a great time in Berlin, found a few VERY old caches, one with 5.000+ favo points, learnt a bit of history about the Jewish prosecution and about the cold War, about water pumps, about the guy that discovered Uranium ... and even can place Eisleben in a map!! So, thanks to the caching community in Berlin. Next week ... back to Hannover

Running. I believe half of my finds have been on my running shoes, including the first one. I'm a very regular runner and sometimes running can get a bit boring, so what better that heading to some (preferably easy) cache?

Hi, First of all my apologies for writing in English but though I understand (and kind of speak) german, writing it is quite of different story. Now, to the point. Because of my work I'm travelling (and caching) often to Germany, but in kw13 I will be for the first time going to Berlin. Well, for the first time since I started caching a couple of years ago. Normally I do my caching-planning prior to any of my trips, but looking at the geocaching map of Berlin, I'm a bit overwhelmed. So, therefore my question: are there any "must-do's" around the Zoo area? Unfortunately I'm there on business trip, so my daily caching time may be limited, so multi's won't be an option, unless they are very short ones. Looking forward to your feedback Thanks in advance !!

The more I think about geocaching the more the feeling I get we are members of some kind of secret society. I've been caching for a couple of years, I travel quite a lot (1000+ flights so far), have a sizeable social network, consider myself relatively well-informed and I live in a quite geocaching-active part of the world (Flanders, Belgium). Even so, nobody I know seems to have ever heard of geocaching and I would be in the same case today. Fortunately a couple years back in some kind of party for the basket team of my sons, I asked one of the parents about that website he was browsing in with maps (I love maps) and some funny icons on it .. and the rest is history. I don't know if it's a question of marketing, but considering the amount of members worldwide it still seems to be quite an invisible hobby, at least that's how I experience it. Do you have a similar feeling? Now, not that I have any problems with that, at the end of the day there's no need for the rest of the world to know what I'm enjoying, but it would feel better if when I say somebody on a business trip that I'm going to grab a couple of caches before dinner their answer would be "Ah, do you geocache?" rather than "to grab a couple of WHAT?". And on the other hand it's almost certain that not more than a couple hundred meters from where that "somebody" lives ... there's a micro container waiting to be found. The reason I'm writing this story today and not earlier has to do with a story that confirmed me that even if "you" don't know it ... we are everywhere. The story goes as follows: As earlier mentioned, I live in Belgium. A couple of weeks back there was a traveller TV show on prime time. On that particular week, the traveller followed the footsteps of Chris McCandless (for those of you who don't know the story, basically after graduating, he decided to leave everything behind and going "into the wild" in Alaska). Chris eventually settled in an old discarded bus,literally, in the middle of nowhere. Well, while watching the area around the bus I told my wife: "I'm sure there is a cache there somewhere" and yeap, I should have bet something, because a quick check in my iPhone gave GC3TTVD, which is actually IN THE BUS !! So, though nobody knows us ... we are definitely everywhere Immediately that cache entered my list of "impossible dream caches", together with the A.P.E. one in Brazil, one in Antarctica, the Everest EC, one in Tierra del Fuego ... Do you have such a list as well? Dreaming is always good

Hi, Has anybody here experience in caching in Alor Setar? I'll be there next week, and the very few caches in the area seem not to have been found for a long, long time. I mailed "DarkEnergy", CO of most of them, but got no answer either. Looking forward to your feedback Regards from Belgium

Congratulations on your UK cache If you are flying through the main Istanbul airport, I believe there is a cache you can get if you have at least a spare hour, we regularly transit through the airport but have never gone for the cache (the international lounge for Turkish airlines always lures us in instead!). If you decide to go for the cache I'd be interested to hear about your experience! That one is indeed the goal. I have a 3 hour layover coming from Malaysia before taking my flight to Belgium, so if I have the time and energy the idea is to give it a try to that one, so that I can do my 20th country asap, but there's a chance that I'm pretty dead after the flight, so .. we'll see

If you come to Ireland in May, please let me know I will, it's a four day "training", but with plenty of free time and I'll be staying on a hotel close to Trinity, so plenty of caches around, including, if I remember correctly a couple quite old virtuals and even a webcam cache nearby, so I just can't wait :-)

Just logged my first cache in UK. 19 countries & counting. Next stop either Turkey next week (short flight connection) or Ireland in May. Keep on caching !!

That's kinda what I'm getting at, without being so brazen as to say it straight out. The risk of having visitors at the wrong hours is mostly during the FTF period. One interesting solution could be to intentionally publish it with coords 300 feet off and with no hint. Then when morning comes, correct them. Whoops! I did it once but not on purpose. By mistake I published the cache around 200m from where it was supposed to be. Still, on that same night there was an FTF (he didn't seem too happy, though). We have quite die hard FTFers in this part of the world

Hey, Thanks for your comments As this thread I started already brought some interesting discussions, please let me clarify my point: - As you can see in Google Earth / Street View (the coords are accurate), the cache is just outside that "quiet neighborhood" next to a small and relatively busy road at maybe 30-35 meters from the closest house. So, I don't expect anybody to call the cops because suddenly a car stopped further down the road and a guy with a flashlight seems to be searching for his wallet. I just thought it would be more appropriate to search that cache during the day, in order to be 100% sure that no neighbors would be annoyed/suspicious. Btw, Belgium is a very densely populated country so we do have a LOT of caches near houses and in the description you can often find the disclaimer "not to cache at night in order not to disturb the neighborhood" Still, between 18:30 (when it was as dark as at 3 AM) and 20:30, 5 persons had signed the log My concern isn't that much about the cache but about the FTFers. As somebody mentioned earlier in the thread, some of them just get the e-mail that a new cache is around, jump in the car and try to be the first. I'm quite sure that reading the attributes and/or the description is something for later, and yes it is not the end of the world if someone goes for a cache, like in this case, on the early evening, dark or not dark, so this particular case wasn't really dramatic, I'm just discussing the principle. Btw, thanks for the hint, I already added the "not recommended at night" attribute. Nevertheless, it's too late, after the FTF rush I would be surprised if anybody adventures in the dark to find a simple cache. Last night I was thinking about how to approach my next cache, and got the same idea as somebody else mentioned in this thread, namely to mention in the reviewer note that the cache should be published early in the morning. Taking into account the density of FTFers we have in the area, I'm sure that before noon the "Podium" will be filled Regards

So ... today I placed my 15th cache GC5J4Q5. As this cache is relatively close to a quiet neighborhood. I: - placed a " no night cache" attribute - mentioned in the description of the cache "a) Dit is GEEN nachtcache. Gelieve de rust in de buurt niet te verstoren" what in dutch means: "a) This is NOT a night cache. Please respect the peace in the neighborhood" Well: - The sun went down today in Belgium around 16:30 - I submitted the cache for review at 17:30 - The cache was published at 18:39 - By 19:33 the cache had already three founds. I know, 7:30 PM isn't really "night" but anyway, I would never go for a "no-night cache" if it's dark, and I would feel suspicious seeing at night 3 or 4 cars parked at the other end of the street and people with flashlights wandering around. What do you think? Btw, I am starting to understand how the FTFers "behave" in the area so just to play safe I placed the cache not closer than 50m from the nearest private property, but still. Thx

Volgens mij wel: "We will unveil the last of the six country Souvenirs on Thursday, December 18th, and then retroactively award them ALL on Monday, December 22, 2014 to anyone who’s ever geocached in these countries!"

Here in Belgium I had to proof that I fulfilled the ALR of my Challenge cache (GC50KT9) in order to get it published.

Just found my first couple of caches in Slovenia, land #18: The land of the micro's and the nano's Next stop (depending on where my work brings me) should be Switzerland, UK, Luxembourg or Dubai, in any case in 2015 Keep on caching !!