Saturday March 18, 2006

42 new caches along a railway line!

From 1885 until 2003, "Die Vennbahn" served as an ever changing military, civil or touristical/historical railway. The most recent use has been as a touristical line with historical locomotives. At the end of 2003, the line has been closed down, due to a political decision, not to provide the money for necessary maintenance. This still hurts ...
As a result of the Treaty of Versailles, the part from Raeren to Kalterherberg was defined as Belgian territory, although it runs nearly completely through Germany.
Now, a German geocaching team (Stormy, Motoracer and Eagle Theo) placed 42 new caches along this line.
Yesterday I had an hour to spend during a seminaire in a hotel in that region. So I tried to find the cache "Vennbahn, Bahnhof Sourbrot", but as I did not find it I had to log a DNF. I did not know what I was looking for and there was almost a meter of snow at the cacheplace!

Only 2 km away was laying a second one: "Vennbahn, Bahnhof Robertville". And this one I found: it was a film cannister with only a logbook. So I suppose that all 42 caches are of the same shape. One day ... I will find these all!

Sunday March 13, 2006

After "The Night of The Bat"

Yesterday I attended an event in the Antwerp region: "The Night of The Bat". 10 new caches were waiting to be found by more than 70 geocachers. With our team we could find 7 caches and then we decided to stop and go back home. It was already 2.30 in the morning.
I was in bed at 4 o'clock. I must admit that I did not do a lot today. Of course I logged al the caches we found and many, many Travel Bugs I had seen, together with some new coins. My list of icons in my stats is growing!
I took once again a picture of the contruction works in front of our house. Last Wednesday we were invited by the architects of this building at the official opening of the sales ...