No cache for the Principality Pontinha EN
No Cache for Pontinha - to find out why, read the conversation with the reviewer in the attached PDF
Excuse my English - I am angry - adrenaline is blocking my brain right now
GC2KDFK.pdf DE
Previously It has its own small island, now there is the Ilheu Pontinha integrated into the wall port of Funchal. At the former Fort Sao Jose remembers very little.
Portugal has sold this part of Madeira 1903rd Since 2000, the small island privately owned by Renato Barros, a Madeirans.
2010, I visited Renato on his island. He calls himself "Prince of Pontinha" and has declared his island with the Principality. His principality has (he believes) everything that a micro-nation the latter need:
- A population (with the Prince family)
- A Constitution
- A territory (just the island itself)
You can visit the Principality and visit and if you like, a small coin in Renato's donation bin.
The Prince is a friendly host, even if he never tires of emphasizing that one is at your own risk at his guest. In his small country governed by the laws of Portugal would not.
I personally think Renato it does not mean so very serious about his principality. I think he wants people to tell the story of this place and buy from the donations of building materials, to make any necessary repair actions. The old fort threatens to fall apart. From its spectacular declaration of independence, he probably hopes that the attention of a large public.
I told the prince of one of my hobbies - from Geocaching. He was quite taken with the idea of having a geocache in his country. We agreed that I put the cache and publish and it will take over maintenance.
said than done. The most suitable seemed to me a film can, a "micro". We put the Micro into a crack in the fortress wall, at a point where the cache will also have access, if the Prince once in neighboring Portugal bored. So do not take the
Cacher the island apart, I have in Listing openly described, where the cache is located. We've added a spoiler photo to make it even easier. The
Versteckart "crack between two stones in the wall" is distributed worldwide and is (in my world) in the ranking of the simple hiding behind "Under a pile of wood" or "Under a stone".
have the listing of course I also mentioned that it is a private property, the owner has given his consent and the maintenance will take over, if that should it become necessary.
I have designed everything to avoid the usual pitfalls with the guidelines and agree to the inevitable, all-powerful reviewer graciously. One has so his experience of more than six years of geocaching.
What happened to me then come before me like a piece from the madhouse. Essentially, it boils down that the reviewer has asked me the following:
- I should remove the cache from the crack in the wall, this is a bad idea Versteckart
- I should obtain written permission from Renato and the reviewer Send
For both I am not prepared and asked the reviewer to escalate to someone who can clarify for us. To this end, he was not ready again and played the ball back to me when I want, I'm supposed to escalate Groundspeek.
Escalate I hereby do it. But not to Groundspeek, because those are his "superiors", not mine. I only feel the world community of geocachers escalate committed and that (in my opinion) outrageous process for you: The geocachers.
love Geocaching - a PDF you will find attached the logs that I have written and the reviewer turns. Read from bottom to top, but she knows.
The cache is archived - ie. The listing is archived. The cache is still on Pontinha and can be searched. One can log in the logbook that's possible without censorship from above.
You can also log in my blog, just making a comment on this post.
GC2KDFK.pdf PS: Please excuse my bad English and my bad German PDF in this post. If I'm really angry about something, then blocked all my adrenaline Language Centre, do you know this state well.
