Logs for Grotprof
12-Apr-18
This week I had 4 days in continental Europe stationed in Amersfoort Netherlands for two days and one day near Florenville in south Belgium. It was the perfect opportunity to get the second oldest cache in Europe (THIS ONE! but there is one outside Dublin a little older) and a chance to get caches in 5 countries in 1 day. Both goals were achieved. I did the 5 countries by popping over the border from Florenville to France where I got a couple, then cached in Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Germany just east of Sittard before heading for Amersfoort. In between I did some extreme terrain caching and grabbed a bunch of different types of caches (multi, wherigo, mystery, traditional, letterbox, earthcache) as well as rare webcams and virtuals.
This will be what the Norwegians call a “felleslogg” for all the caches I got. But I will add a few comments at specific locations. But I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the geocachers who owned the caches I found. TFTC! I will end with a short story from the end of my trip……
The flight home to Stavanger near where I live was quite comical at the start. The bus took us out to a KLM plane and all the passengers got on board and sat down. The air hostess used the microphone and welcomed everyone on board and at one point she said "I hope you have a pleasant flight to Toulouse". “Err… Toulouse???” I thought Then she repeated the message in Dutch which sounded to me like "bla bla bla bla bla Toulouse bla bla bla". Toulouse again?? What?? So me and all the other passengers who also heard this started looking around at each other, somewhat worried, and asking if they were on the wrong flight. Maybe the bus had driven to the wrong plane! But just before panic ensued, the hostess picked up her microphone again and said in a very soothing chocolatey voice "I'm terribly sorry, this flight is to Stavanger, not Toulouse. Very sorry about that". So we all breathed a sigh of relief. I almost tried a joke on her later to say that I was actually going to Toulouse and that I think I have got on the wrong plane….but I didn't dare.
Here. Easy find. TFTC.
This will be what the Norwegians call a “felleslogg” for all the caches I got. But I will add a few comments at specific locations. But I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the geocachers who owned the caches I found. TFTC! I will end with a short story from the end of my trip……
The flight home to Stavanger near where I live was quite comical at the start. The bus took us out to a KLM plane and all the passengers got on board and sat down. The air hostess used the microphone and welcomed everyone on board and at one point she said "I hope you have a pleasant flight to Toulouse". “Err… Toulouse???” I thought Then she repeated the message in Dutch which sounded to me like "bla bla bla bla bla Toulouse bla bla bla". Toulouse again?? What?? So me and all the other passengers who also heard this started looking around at each other, somewhat worried, and asking if they were on the wrong flight. Maybe the bus had driven to the wrong plane! But just before panic ensued, the hostess picked up her microphone again and said in a very soothing chocolatey voice "I'm terribly sorry, this flight is to Stavanger, not Toulouse. Very sorry about that". So we all breathed a sigh of relief. I almost tried a joke on her later to say that I was actually going to Toulouse and that I think I have got on the wrong plane….but I didn't dare.
Here. Easy find. TFTC.
03-Jul-17
On my way home from the US to Norway I decided to stop off in Iceland for a few days as it’s a country I have always wanted to see because of its fabulous scenery. And I was not disappointed. Amazing place, amazing things to see such as geysirs, hotpools, waterfalls, volcanoes, craters, glaciers and the most beautiful canyon in the world. The weather which I am told is so unpredictable stayed dry and mostly sunny the whole time. A really blessed time. And it almost didn’t happen as I lost (stolen?) my driver’s license in the US. Thankfully bloke at AVIS gave me a car on my temporarily-acquired license, which maybe shouldn’t have happened, but I wasn’t complaining. I also did a lot of geocaching in that time (over 60 finds including a lot of earthcaches – no surprises there!), and visited several geocaches that led me to wonderful places (with unpronounceable names 
) that I didn’t even have on my itinerary. Without geocaching I would have missed on some great scenery. I drove up to Geysir, Strokkur and Gulfoss, and down to Vik and quite a way westwards from there, picking up some hitchhikers along the way.
Some geocaches had very full logbooks, so I tried to find a place to write my nick. But none of them were wet (no melted ice in any of them!) and practically all of them were at excellent zero points. So a big thank you to all you Icelandic geocachers for maintaining the caches often in fantastic locations and sometimes with many muggles around. I post a few FPs in strategic places and will write some specific notes on some of the more special individual caches. Takk fyrir mig!
Yep, closed.
) that I didn’t even have on my itinerary. Without geocaching I would have missed on some great scenery. I drove up to Geysir, Strokkur and Gulfoss, and down to Vik and quite a way westwards from there, picking up some hitchhikers along the way. Some geocaches had very full logbooks, so I tried to find a place to write my nick. But none of them were wet (no melted ice in any of them!) and practically all of them were at excellent zero points. So a big thank you to all you Icelandic geocachers for maintaining the caches often in fantastic locations and sometimes with many muggles around. I post a few FPs in strategic places and will write some specific notes on some of the more special individual caches. Takk fyrir mig!
Yep, closed.
24-Jun-17
Whilst attending a conference in the US I had some extra time to do some geocaching. This took me to Denver, Colorado Springs and even into Kansas to log the worlds oldest cache currently available. Some of the caches were really tough due to the hiking involved at (for me) fairly high altitude. These include some 5/5 challenges west of Colorado Springs at 3200m and some around Pikes Peak at ca 4300m.
I’d like to take this general opportunity thank all the cache owners for their caches (whether traditional, mystery, wherigo, virtual, multi or earth) and I will add further comments on individual caches. TFTCs!
Wow! What an honour to log Mingo! 3hr drove from Denver but all worth it.
I’d like to take this general opportunity thank all the cache owners for their caches (whether traditional, mystery, wherigo, virtual, multi or earth) and I will add further comments on individual caches. TFTCs!
Wow! What an honour to log Mingo! 3hr drove from Denver but all worth it.
12-Oct-14
Wow, what a building. Arrived in evening and looked around then came bacl next day(time) for the obligatory photos at the GZ. Will upload back home. Apparently they are building a tower in Saudi Arabia which will be over 1km tall. Ready in 2 years I was told. Answers have been sent CO. THanks for an awesome cache. FP awarded.
