Genneper Park

In the south of Eindhoven only about 10 Km from our home a lot of caches are hidden.
On this Friday afternoon I visited the place to uncover some of the caches.

The first cache in this beautiful park was (GC1FZPZ - Genneper Hymne / Deel 4: Accelerando), logged as #211 at 14:10

Inside the cache a hint was hidden for the bonus-cache.

The second cache of today (GC1H9XE - Gennep: de Dommel)
A traditional cache that I logged as #212 at 14:25

The third of today (GC1FVT7 - Genneper Hymne / Deel 3: Andante)
Hidden in a spot I could barely reach, but I succeeded.

Logged as #213 at 14:40

The last cache of today in the park (GC1FCTH - Genneper Hymne / DEEL 1: Adagio)
For this cache I had to walk trough a pool of water and my socks got wet.

But again successful so I could log this one as #214 at 15:15

Stratego

On our way back from our weekend in Zeeland we stopped half-way to walk the dogs, we picked the cache (GCJRD7 - Stratego), a funny cache where we had to apply the rules of that board-game at the way-points we found.

It was a lovely sunny day and it was a pleasure to walk around the forest.

At a certain point it became even very warm in the forest. So we could use a shower at the end of the day.

When we were almost at the end of the walk we met a Belgium couple with two bearded collie boys, what a coincidence.

And at the end of the walk we were able to find the cache, we logged it as #209 at 17:00

Bicycle Tour In Zeeland

The breeder of our Youngest dog organized a walk on the beach near Cadzand. We decided to go there for the Easter weekend. The walk was Saturday, on Sunday we planned a bicycle trip that would bring us to the caches laying around in this area.
The first one actually laying on the beach (GCJXWG - Beach Party for KIDS). Since we had a bicycle trip ahead of us, the dogs needed to stay on the leash or else they would be exhausted to much.
But still Toby enjoyed the beach.

As well as Brego did.

We logged the cache at 12:40.

After that back to the bikes for the next stop.

The next cache (GC180G8 - Zwinhoeve) was beside a place where we enjoyed a cop of coffee and some waffles.
We logged the cache at 13:30.

Up to the next one a earth cache (GC1F7PR - Het Zwin)
that we logged at 14:00.

Again a short bike-trip to the earth cache (GC1JY5Y - Educatieve Grondwatermeter - De Zwinweide) that we could log at 14:15.

And then the final of the day a multi-cache (GCH6A6 - 'Contra Escarpe')
This is a 6 KM walk and was well appreciated after being on the bike a lot.

We passed by a windmill.

Beautiful nature path.

That was lovely to walk.

Taking our bikes to go for the final location.

And we were able to log it at 16:10, being our number 208 cache-find.

After this we had to cycle to our motor-home where we enjoyed a well deserved rest.

Ant's People

When we returned home Sunday I got an email that a interesting TB was dropped in the cache (GC1HKQ7 - Ter nagedachtenis - Tres Monumentum). This cache is not to far away from the place I had to visit on Monday for work. So I decided to go for a nice walk during my lunch break.

It was very nice weather, and I visited a couple of nice places.

And even a couple of memorial sites.

It was good to be around these nice parks.

And at 13:30 the reward of the cache that still contained the targeted TB.

With this TB I was able to figure out the start coordinates of a cache and we went for it today.
Near that cache we first picked up a solved mystery cache (GC1F16Y - Schipper mag ik over varen?).

We logged it at 18:00.

And then the 5-star cache I had to find the TB for (GC1M1NA - Ant People).
After a short walk in an interesting forest.

We could find the stash box and log this cache at 18:45.

The Holy Grail

We went for a bearded collie walk in the neighbourhood of Zwolle today. Besides this we had plans to go for a special cache and wanted this one to be our number 200 cache. Therefore we had to log some easy caches on the way over.
A big series is laying in an area that we had to pass by anyhow. So choice enough to get to the needed total.
The first was (GC12MVB - Rondje Bernheze 45: De Leijgraaf)
Logged it as #194 at 10:15.

The second was (GC12MVB - Rondje Bernheze 39: De Driehoek)
Logged it as#195 at 10:20.

The third one (GC12MVB - Rondje Bernheze 16: Zweefvlucht) they were actually gliding over there.

Logged it as number 196 at 10:25.

The fourth in row was (GC12MVB - Rondje Bernheze 17: Paardenwei)
Logged at 10:40.

The fifth (GC12MVB - Rondje Bernheze 32: De Pomp), we couldn't find this one on an earlier visit but were successful today making this one our number
198 that we logged at 10:55.

And then the sixth one of this morning (GC12MVB - Rondje Bernheze 41: Donzel) We logged it at 11:00 making the total caches found so far 199.

In between we went for a walk with a lot of bearded collies in a very nice area.
After that we went for the final of the day (GC113PV - The Holy Grail). The puzzle to figure out the start coordinates was really amazing and a lot of fun to do.
This coordinates brought us to a nice forest.

Visiting a couple of way-points and where possible relaxing from all the work out today.

Logged it at 18:15 as our number 200 cache.

That was one heck of a day.

With solving and finding this cache we earned the next banner:

On the way back to the car we spotted this funny tree, as we could read on the signs around here bats are living in this kind of trees.

Guest cachers

Today Mila and Tommy went with us to find some caches. The first cache (GCKXKK - 8 Zaligheden: Knegsel) we did was one where two teams are needed that have to cooperate together, so we formed two teams, the males and the females accompanied by one bear each.
In the beginning we were still not separated.

But after the first way-point we had to split up. We found some containers that had information in it that had to be combined with the information found by the other team.

We were reunited more than once so that we saw each other more than expected upfront. So that was actually fun to do..

Than again figuring out where to go next.

With at the end the reward the stash-box
We found it at 14:30.

Here you can see us inspecting the content of the box.

On the way back home we picked up a traditional (GC197FD - Het wapen van Veldhoven 1: De Rotonde).
Found it at 15:35

And last but not least a cache location (GC1D47V - Randweg Eindhoven) that we visited before but weren't successful yet.
Now we immediately found the container at 15:45.

Being this lucky we decided to go for another cache we tried before but no luck there. So that place we have to revisit.