News update

This past week we were introduced to the excitements of 'geocaching' by our grandchildren. The following website will tell you all about it www.geocaching.com but in a nutshell, hidden around the globe including our immediate area of the Black Forest are numerous 'caches', i.e. containers of varying sizes containing a logbook and perhaps other objects. The exact location of each cache is pinpointed using GPS technology through satellites. To play this 'treasure-hunt' game you need a hand-held GPS receiver into which you have down-loaded from the internet the exact location of hidden caches in your area. Your GPS will then lead you to within a few feet of the 'treasure'. Our first find was under rocks in the roots of a tree some yards off a footpath through the forest and took us a least 20 minutes of searching once we had found the location!
The game can provide considerable incentive to youngsters, and perhaps those not so young too, to exercise their legs as well as their minds and experience the joys of finding beauty spots and view points in less accessible places. We hope to to able to provide 'geocaching' as an option for families holidaying with us in the future.

Of course there are spiritual lessons to be learnt from the excercise and Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of heaven being like treasure hidden in a field. Matthew 13.44