The last day of our Bonn trip was a long one… well our flight back wasn’t until 23:15, so we had an entire day to fill.
Matthew had worked out a plan… there were two events, another set of lab caches in Bonn, a trip up a ‘mountain’ on a train, then we had to get a train from Bonn back to the airport.
But then there were another set of Lab caches in the airport itself so even when we got there we still had things to do…
The two German cachers who had come to our Mega to tell us about this Bonn Mega (Cache42Bears) also have a set of Adventure Lab caches a few miles outside Bonn, in the grounds of a monastery.
Fortunately Matthew has a friend Constantine for whom the Bonn Mega was a day trip, so had a car, so we could all squeeze in and go to the Monastery.
The first we heard about the Bonn Mega was at our own event in August 2018… Two German gents attended conspicuous by their full beards and told us they were having a Mega in Bonn on February 29th 2020. Continue reading
We were in a coffee shop in Manchester while we were there for the Geocoinfest in September and Kerry booked a flight to Bonn at a nice price… and was quickly followed by Alison and Matthew, come December the price of the flights hadn’t increased and they had a four bedroom AirBnB, so it seemed like a good idea to go as well.
And so on 28th February I ended up on an Aeroplane to Germany for a weekend Continue reading
I’m sure I have said before that following this years UKMega in Sussex the 2021 event will be in Lincolnshire, and following the many years old tradition the Lincoln Mega Committee held an event to reveal the location chosen for it. Continue reading
After the news about the Project GC Locationless Lab Caches got spread about there was a lot of fuss in the caching community – because Geocaches were supposed to involve visiting a specific location and sitting at home on your computer finding a cache was not the done thing. Continue reading