Geocaching - Der 210. Cache

Nach fast 4 wöchiger geocaching Abstinenz hab ich jetzt langsam wieder Lust ein wenig durch die Gegend zu laufen und Plastikdosen zu suchen. Es sind ja mittlerweile auch eine Menge neue Caches ausgelegt worden. Zunächst hab ich mir die Caches in meiner Nähe vorgenommen.

Am letzten Wochenende habe ich an der Huchtinger Ochtum 2 neue Caches gefunden und heute morgen bin ich zunächst zum nagelneuen TT TB Motel nach Brinkum gefahren. Wie immer bei Tupper Teddy TB Hotels auch hier ne schöne große Box.
Da die Zeit vor der Arbeit ein wenig knapp wurde, hab ich den fast benachbarten Cache Park Osterbruchwiesen erst nach der Arbeit angehen können. Ein Micro im Park...naja...auf jeden Fall einfach und schnell zu finden und mein 210. Cache!

Bremer Freimarkt

The Bremen Freimarkt is the third largest fun-fair in Germany after the "Oktoberfest" in Munich and the "Cannstatter Wasn" in Stuttgart. Lots of caroussels, roundabouts, food and drinks.We always join the Freimarkt. We usually do not spend too much money on it but enjoy the special atmosphere.

Do you want to join us? We took some photos and you can view them here.
If you are interested, you can also download some wallpapers/screensavers here.

Autumn Impressions

Every season of the year has its special impressions and charmes. Spring and autumn are my favorites. So, now I collected some autumn impressions from our recent walks through nature.
You can have a look at the potos here.

Harriersand

Another sunday-another excursion. This time we went to "Harriersand". It is an island in the middle of the river "Weser". We went there to do some hiking or maybe relaxing at the beach...but the scene was a bit disappointing. One narrow road of 11 kilometres length with no possibilities to turn left or right. And the "beach" was a 5 metres wide beach, with fine white sand but with a view to the harbour and indsutrial area of the city of "Brake". Not really a place where I would like to spend more than half an hour maybe. But there were a lot of visitors there, mainly bicyclists and motorbikers.

The official info:
The island Harriersand is with its length of eleven kilometre Europe's longest river island. In the past Harriersand consisted of seven islands, which were in the course of the Weser correction and deepening through bank undercutting to one island united. With the Lower Saxony area and administration reform the 600 hectare big island became part of the community Schwanewede on the 01.03.1974.

Little holiday cottages with beach view are available for rent. On a lovely evening walk along the beach around the island one can admire the brightly illuminated neighbouring town of Brake and then enjoy a rest at the restaurant. It is also possible during the summer holidays to take the little pedestrian ferry to Brake.

The Weser's "right sidearm" is home to a little natural harbour, which is exposed to the tides so that ships have ground contact during low tide.

Knoops Park

One of our excursions led us to a "jewel" of a park. "Knoops Park" situated in the north of Bremen near the river "Lesum" was one of the nicest parks that we have seen around Bremen. It is not only the tidyness and the old, old trees (some of them more then 100 years old) that make this park special to me. But because it was founded and by an old Bremen merchant who also had kind of a castle in this park, it still has something like an aristocratic touch...a very special charactere. Hard to describe...come here and find out yourself ;-)

So, the park is about 65 hectare large, named after the founder "Baron Ludwig Knoop" (1821-1894). In 1870 the Baron gave order to the garden-architect "Wilhelm Benque" to build a park along the banks of the river "Lesum". The result was a huge park with lots of narrow, winding ways and many resting places. The area itself is a bit hilly and gives the viewer a good look over the whole scenery including the river.
Only 16 years later the castle "Schloss Muehlental" was built in the centre of the park. The castle was not really in use and none lived in there for a longer time, so, in 1933 the shabby castle was totally demolished and today there are only some rocks left that give an idea of where the castle once stood.

No connection

From today on, my internet connection at home is cut off. I changed the provider and will have to wait about 2 weeks for the new port/connection. During this time, I will probably not publish any new posts.

Of course you can still reach me via e-mail. I will read them at my office.