Muggle Free Morning Ride to Heisingen (96) Home along the Ruhr - Mirrors and Mist

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Today the schedule said "bike". And over in Heisingen, on the other side of the Ruhr, I knew there was a group of caches that could only be found at night...

so left the house at 5 this morning in a steady but warm rain - 5k brings me to kupferdreh where i looked for a cache in the market there without success - over the bridge - up the hill to the a little rotary in the middle of the village heisingen - i checked some nearby signs and then all three of the plant pots before i realized where the cache was... do you see it?

that metal circle in the middle of the cobblestones lifts up and underneath is the cache attached with strong magnets - only a few muggles rolled by while i was looking but i could hear them coming long enough off that i just walked to the shadows on the side of the rotary - putting the cache back though was harder as a taxi cab pulled up to drop off a baker...

finally rehid and off to the next rotary  little farther up the hill - who knew heisingen had two rotaries let alone two rotary caches?

[[posterous-content:pid___1]]took me a while to find this one - cause i didnt get the pun in the german clue til i really thought about it - i pretended here to be a curious tourist looking at the mining tower - photographing it when cars rolled byto examine in german is untersuchen - look under - aha - and away...

the next one was hidden in the courtyard of a cycle shop - i really dont like caches that people use as advertisement for their stores - unless its a tavern or ice cream cafe - but since the store wasnt open today i had little problem rolling in, unrolling the logbook and rolling on...

[[posterous-content:pid___2]] next stop the local church - quick find quick log - i could see and hear a muggle across the street enjoying coffee on their balcony - i dont think they noticed me

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from there i tried one more - but all this muggle stress gets to me after all - its my bigggest weakness - so when i got to the last one, i lost my nerve... then took a swing down along carl funke strasse which is one of the coolest estreets in essen - old mining residences - really interesting architecture - a fella could do a nice photo essay on this place if the owners would play along...

[[posterous-content:pid___4]]then down to the baldeney see to the bridge at kupferdreh - the sunrise was hidden today by cloud and mist but i was able to capture just enough of it from the bridge - i could have hung out here for another hour or so easy

[[posterous-content:pid___5]]and then i headed home along the ruhr - a fun trip with every imaginable type of road surface - the river is gorgeous mornings and i hope i can get down here more often

 

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anyway that was saturday morning - made a huge second breakfast and coffee galore when i got home - poured rain all day... but we managed a walk along the rhine this afternoon... more photos

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Muggle-free Morning Bike Ride (96)