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Old June 10th, 2009, 12:43 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:08:06 +0100, Mike wrote in post :
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:45:38 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis
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geocaching


I hadn't heard of that, bit like Dartmoor letterboxing


Yes, very much so. It's fun. You can do it with any GPS equipment where you
can input a gps co-ordinate. You have to work out the clues a start point
which gives you the next co-ordinate, where you can find the next clue...
and so on. Sometimes only one step, sometimes more.

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Old June 10th, 2009, 02:48 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Tim C.:
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:08:06 +0100, Mike wrote in post :
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:45:38 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis
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geocaching


I hadn't heard of that, bit like Dartmoor letterboxing


Yes, very much so. It's fun. You can do it with any GPS equipment where you
can input a gps co-ordinate.


A Garmin Etrex H for about 75 euros will already do perfectly.
More expensive ones, with topographic maps, are available, sometimes
handy, but certainly not necessary.

You have to work out the clues a start point
which gives you the next co-ordinate, where you can find the next clue...
and so on. Sometimes only one step, sometimes more.


Exactly right. Of course, geocaching.com introduces the lot nicely, but
also, Wikipedia has a proper explanation.

Come to Holland or North-Western Germany, and I'll be happy to take you
along to do a few caches.
My wife and I have seen at least 100 interesting spots within a 30
miles radius from home, that we would probably never have seen or
noticed without geocaching. Things that you will visit are
- hidden monument in a small town, right behind the mayor's office
- that white, tiny beach in the middle of a forest
- the most beautiful jogging track at the side of a city park
- a 1,500 year old tomb stone under a covered bridge
- etc, etc.

(Unfortunately, there are also caches hidden at almost random places
that aren't interesting at all, like a phone booth or a deserted former
bus stop).


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Old June 10th, 2009, 03:14 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Travelling from the US to Wales every other year to visit relatives from age 2
(1949) with my war bride mother probably started it. Then three years in the
Army stationed in Germany in the sixties solidified my love for travelling
around Europe.

-- Larry
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Old June 10th, 2009, 03:38 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:48:59 +0200, Erick T. Barkhuis wrote in post :
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(Unfortunately, there are also caches hidden at almost random places
that aren't interesting at all, like a phone booth or a deserted former
bus stop).


or the one in Linz under the bridge where the drug-addicts hang out. I
didn't find that one :-)
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Old June 10th, 2009, 05:58 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Belgian beer largely!
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Old June 10th, 2009, 08:29 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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how did you get "The Travel Bug"?
while I made my first intercontinental trip to France in 1959 for a
cousin's wedding in St. Denis Cathedral (Antoine Pinay, the former Prime
Minister, was walking the bride down the aisle, you see my family was
involved in French Politics ;-} the father of the bride was in Monsieur
Pinay's cabinet, and the groom was later a representative from the Loire
etc.)
but I don't really remember much of the trip...


Probably when my family emigrated to New Zealand from England, by
ship, in 1957-8. So I experienced tropical weather for the first time.
I remember quite a lot. The Panama Canal, flying fish beside the boat,
the garbage in Port of Spain harbour, then not getting shore in either
Tahiti or Fiji because I got chickenpox and could just watch from the
isolation ward (best cabin on the ship, but watching policemen in skirts
patrolling Suva docks in the rain had limited fascination even at age 8).

I didn't go anywhere else until I went to Australia and then the US in
1974. Most of the places I've been to since arriving in Scotland in
1976 have been in Turkey and Eastern Europe (knowing enough Turkish to
hold a conversation made all the difference), but I've now been at least
briefly to most countries in Europe except Spain and those bordering on
the Baltic.

My only repeat visit to Fiji was on the way to the US, where we had a
brief stop. Talking to Mormon missionaries in their black uniforms on
their way back to the mothership, at 1am in a tropical night. It felt
like being in a Graham Greene novel. It doesn't seem like Fiji is a
place I'm destined to see again. (Smoked a fair bit of one of their
main exports when I was in NZ).

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Old June 10th, 2009, 09:18 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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hackamore wrote:

Hi,


so how did you get the bug?

In November, 1997, I had the phenomenal good fortune to receive free
tickets to a concert on the Los Angeles Philharmonic's "Celebrity
Series". The artist for the evening was José van Dam, a Belgian
bass-baritone of whom I had never heard. When a greying, balding,
middle-aged man walked on stage (wearing, instead of formal attire, a
charcoal grey blazer with trousers which did not quite match and needed
pressing) my initial reaction was "He can't be very good if he's been
around that long and I never heard of him". Then he opened his mouth
for the first song, and I instantly became an ardent fan. I had heard a
fair number of fine opera singers, "live", but never before one who
combined to such a degree superb vocal technique, keen musical
intelligence, and a voice of exceptional beauty! How I had missed
becoming aware of him (he made his Paris Opera debut in 1970, and sang
Leporello in the Losey film of "Don Giovanni") I cannot explain, but
that L.A. Phil recital was certainly an epiphany for me!

My first trip away from home was only to Boston for his appearance with
the Boston Symphony the following year, but that was just the beginning
of my adventures. Although he still makes more-or-less annual concert
appearances on the East Coast (combined with teaching a few
master-classes at Juilliard or other venues), he seldom sings opera in
the U.S. anymore. Despite our chauvinistic assumptions, the Met is NOT
the foremost opera house in the world, and a European career offers the
advantage of being able to have a brilliant career without sacrificing a
home-life (which he apparently opted to do, once established as an
international artist).

Having already obtained all available videos of him singing opera (most
of them "pirates" of European TV broadcasts), I realized the only way to
hear him "live" was to travel to Europe. Although my operatic travels
(once begun) were not limited to performances by M. van Dam, (I've spent
a few Christmases in Vienna - my favorite city in all the world) I have
been several times to Brussels and Paris and once to Zurich, just to
hear him in opera (although there have been a few concerts, as well.)

Sadly, retirement on a fixed income, along with the ongoing annoyances
of travel "security" restrictions and increasing age-related limitations
on mobility have pretty much put an end to my travels. (I even missed
his performances in the U.S. this year.) Nevertheless, I DID manage to
see some of the rest of the world, and can appreciate the fact that ours
is NOT the greatest country in the world. (Although the skid of the
U.S.Dollar against the Euro has made me glad my impulse to retire to
Vienna died without being realized, since my limited income is all in
U.S. funds.)



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Old June 10th, 2009, 09:36 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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O

so how did you get the bug?


RTSBR-the code for our ship out to India in 1945.
The Bay of Biscay, seeing the Sierra Nevada in Spain, Gibraltar,
Pantellaria rising out of the Med, the stink and sights going
through the Suez Canal, flying fishes in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea,
and the Gateway to India in Bombay, what more could a young 18 year old
wish for?

Something to eat.
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Old June 10th, 2009, 10:50 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:50:49 -0500, hackamore wrote:

wrote:
Travelling from the US to Wales every other year to visit relatives from age 2
(1949) with my war bride mother probably started it. Then three years in the
Army stationed in Germany in the sixties solidified my love for travelling
around Europe.


similar situation here... Mom got transfered to the French Embassy in DC
(good gig!) in 1945 and met my father (an "older" GI delivering
embassy/diplomatic mail) there.

but did/do you consider trips to visit family in Wales "tourism" or just
"visiting family"?


As an adult, we've always allocated a few days for family, and the bulk of our
vacations for roaming. The only family-dedicated trips we've made to Wales have
been for funerals, I'm afraid...

It doesn't hurt that my wife was born in Paris when her father was stationed
there in the early fifties! 8

-- Larry
 




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