France-Eguisheim

On our way towards the next camping site we visited the castle Haut Koenigsbourg, near this castle the cache GCM9PJ-Haut Koenigsbourg is hidden.
Looking down the hill waiting for one of the bosses.

The castle from the outside, we couldn't enter because the bears weren't allowed inside.

Time for some coffee before searching the cache.

Logged the cache at 13:25.

Then back to the motor-home to drive to the camping site. Toby started shaking his head and howled of pain. I thought he had a grass seed in his ear so we searched for the closest vet. They told us that he had to stay over, to get the seed removed under anesthetic. After good thinking we left him there with pain in our hearts.
So in the evening we walked through the village where we were staying with only one of the bears.

For the cache GC11BR5-Eguisheim we had to take the backstreet, that actually felt much like the middle ages.

Found it at 19:25

Next on the agenda was the cache GC1R3KM-Eguisheim - Madonna a traditional hidden at a Madonna statue and found at 19:30.

But the main target of this evening was the multi-cache GC1V41V-Eguisheim - Rue du Rempart for which we had to stroll in this beautiful village.

Find all kinds of information.

To find the stash very close to our motor home.

The boys waiting while I log the cache at 19:45

Saturday we picked up Toby from the vet in good health and we could relax a little. After dinner we walked around in the area and found the cache GC1TWK2-Eguisheim - Lost Place.
The cacher describes it as the most ugly place in Eguisheim and it was ugly indeed.

But in the dark hole we could find the canister at 19:15.

France-Saint Dié

Wednesday we arrived in France and the first town we stayed was Saint Dié in the state Lorraine.
GC1QAX1-SAINT DIE #1: La Tour de La Liberté

We found the canister at 19:35.

After eating an ice-cream we went for the cache GC1QAXG-SAINT DIE #2: La Cathédrale that we logged at 20:10.

Thursday again time for a longer walk, actually a hike towards the mountain tops.
First we walked upwards straight from the camping site.

We passed through a little village, in the back the hill is visible that we hiked. At the top a pole is visible, that we visited for the second cache.

The bears found enough water in the little streams, they needed it since it was a warm day. Of course we brought water with us, but they like water from natural sources better.

We walked up and up, sometimes we almost had to climb up.

But this resulted in beautiful sights down from the hill.

And after a tough hike we reached the top where the cache GC1G6D1-LA ROCHE DU SAPIN SEC was hidden.

That we found cache and wrote the logbook at 15:40.

Next on the agenda was the cache GC1G6D6-LA ROCHE DES CAILLOUX, not to far from the first one.

We found this one as well and logged it at 16:15.

Again astonishing views on the area.

Luxembourg-Diekirch

On Monday we arrived in Diekirch and early in the evening we walked towards the center area to find the cache GC1NDH7-Diekirch - Die alte Sankt Laurentiuskirche.

The cache was actually hidden like this. Not seen very often.

We logged at 19:05, the boys were watching while I wrote the logbook.

Then another cache hidden in the town centre GC1NDGW-Nanocache zu Diekirch – Den Ieselsbuer
This was a nano as the name of the cache describes, we had to search a little and found the container and could log at 19:15.

Tuesday time for a longer walk in the hills surrounding Diekirch, we walked the multi-cache GC12JW4-DEIWELSELTER

It was a warm sunny day so we were glad that we could walk around under the trees on this hill, and that we could sit down and recover a little.

This was the actual Devils spot, that gives its name to this cache.

We had to climb a little more to reach the last way-point and the cache box that we found at 14:30.

WWW2-De Lange Bleek

Today one multi-cache GCQADT-WWW 2: de Lange Bleek.
The start at a memorial statue.

On the road it rained a bit, but we couldn't hide for it, since the Highlanders got the best spots under the trees. And it is not advisable to approach them so we got wet and they stayed dry, but we didn't mind at all.

A couple of trees touched by the wind.

We found the cache at 13:45.

And on the way back to the car we ran into some Highlanders again, aren't they great creatures. We love them.

De Grote Beek

Today time for a letterbox-cache (GCNARC-De Grote Beek) that is located on the premises of a mental hospital in Eindhoven. It is a big place with several forest areas, we visited three of those.

In earlier days this was a closed institution so walking around here gave a special feeling. You see patients all over and since I was caching alone today, I looked back a couple of times to see whether nobody was following me.
The cache was found, always a good feeling and it was a fun adventure.

We ran into some crazy birds. On the next picture you can see a turkey acting like a goose. First I didn't notice him in the group and then I saw that it was no goose at all.

Bontven en Witven

At home the wooden floor needed another layer of paint, therefore it was best to go caching with the bears. We chose the cache (GCVJ76-WWW 4: Bontven en Witven), a 8 Km walk in meadow area.
Sheep are grazing there.

But also highlanders crossed our path.

At one point we had to wait for a calf to get back to his mother before we could pass by, we didn't want the mother to get upset and attack us or something.

We continued with the nice walk in actually nice weather, not to warm.

We found the box at 13:50. Then we had to drive home, because the bears drank all the water we brought with us, in this meadow area there was no natural water source that they could use.

Vessem

Today it is just me and the bears going caching.
We first went for the cache GC1FJG6-Water vlug, a multi-cache in forest area.

We were able to find the final box at 13:15.

The next challenge was to finish the cache GC10QEN-Cache Halfmijl we started earlier but we couldn't find the information at the first way-point.
Earlier this week we gathered that information and I shot this picture, it looks like a photo from a safari trip.

At home I calculated the coordinates for the next way-point and we could continue today. We found what we were searching for and we could calculate the final coordinates.

Where we found a ammo box at 14:40.

Then we drove by the cache GC15MJM-Dommelkespad and we decided to walk this one as well.
It was just a short walk of less than 2 Km and we found the stash box at 16:00.