I went out with Eszter on Monday afternoon, but having left really late we haven't got very far. Especially that we had serious problems with the very first one, which finally scuppered our chances of finding any more. Not that we found even that one. I rang the owner of it who promised that if I put it up as "Found without a password" and upload some photos with it he will OK it.
Andor arrived on Tuesday at 11am and all three of us went caching again together. The first and main job was to recce the route to and placement of one of my own soon to be placed caches. That was a delightful walk and we took the measurements of coordinates, took lots of pictures and had good views en route. As there was still some daylight left when we finished, we went to find another cache on top of a gorgeous medieval castle ruin and AGAIN had no luck. Not even with three pairs of eyes looking. That was a bit dispiriting, but at least the views from there were worth to die for. Once home I wrote to this guy as well to ask him to OK it, hoping for a quick answer.
On Wednesday the Scultety family left and I went to gather caches with Andor to reach 50 asap. We started with the one from Monday and this time we did find it. It was at the foot of the very first rock group I went to, so at least my GPS worked OK. The main reason why I couldn't find it then was that the description was crap and due to the steepness and rockiness of the ground, plus the really thorny dogrose jungle everywhere I didn't reach in far enough. It was supposed to be under a dogrose bush, not at the foot of the rock, but I now know not to take descriptions seriously. With a few honourable exceptions, they are usually hardly useful and often totally baffling and/or deliberately untrue. Arghhhhhhhh!!
We then proceeded to pick up another 4 caches, some of them deep in forests, others in towns or villages and arrived home totally exhausted but happy.
In the evening we had a look at my cache haul and provided the owners of the two caches we couldn't find OK them I had 50. One was really good and did it straight away, but the other one ignored my requests. So I tried to ring him and after about 3 words he put the phone down on me. He didn't even have the decency to say that he was busy and could I ring some other time. Unfortunately geocaching has its own moronic element, although, thankfully, not too many. Most of the them are really nice and friendly and usually helpful. The problem - that I had once before - was that once I uploaded it as "Found it without password", there was no way I could alter that. I couldn't start another entry either, as the system is programmed to only accept an entry from the same person about the same cache once. It wasn't until the middle of the night when I was just about to go to bed that I remembered how to fix it. It is so simple, it is embarrassing that I didn't think of it sooner: you just delete the original entry and start again. I did so and now I am the proud owner of 50 finds.
This morning Andor went home, but he is coming back again next week and hopefully I would have planned and put together the cache(s) and then we can go and put them out together and report it to the Geocaching Society for appearing on the web site. Hopefully Eszter is coming again next week with the rest of the family as the event is fast approaching and they should be very busy working on it from now on. Marci, Andras the Controller and Madar the planner have just turned up and are busy having their heads buried in the map already.
And now for the new disaster: just before Andor went this morning Roy walked over to the Kottage to turn the water on and - you have guessed it!! - the pipes have burst there as well. I was not at all surprised, although I should have been as that building was supposed to have been totally drained. No such thing, apparently. Roy had just told me that the plumber did not supply a drainage tap for the hot water system, so that has never been drained before, but this winter was so appalling that it split those pipes as well. Additional problems now are as follows: 1. we have agreed to a couple and a young guy to stay in the Kottage during the O event next weekend; 2. the burst pipes are in the walls and pouring water into the foundations so it has to be turned off instantly before they undermine the whole structure and the little house falls down. After the initial anger I felt over how Roy didn't think that a system which cannot be totally drained is not a good idea in a building that is hardly ever inhabited even in the summer, never mind the winter, I actually calmed down and could even laugh at it. This is now so stupid that it has become ridiculous. Our guests next week can come over to our building to have showers or baths and as the cold water pipes are OK, they can use the toilet and the kitchen with boiling water in the kettle for tea and the washing up.
Must go now before the police for graphomaniacs comes and drags me off. Next post, perhaps, after the Mecsek Cup next week.
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