Above coordinates are for the front door. Proceed inside and around
the corner to the right in the "service plaza" and
look for the friendly "Stammtisch" (German, it
means something like "regular's table" or "regular
get-together".)
A Kaffee-Klatsch is a German term for getting together with
friends over coffee and shooting the breeze!
This month we host German geocacher spuchtfink
from Bremen.
Tammo's handle befits the seafaring tradition in his family's
background. In the 1950s, a book by Albert Semsrott entitled, "Hein
Spuchtfink, ein Bremer Schiffsjunge," inspired him to become a
sailor himself, and so he went to sea as a "Schiffsjunge,"
literally "ship boy," the lowest rank in the German Merchant Navy.
German sailors call a boy of slight build a Spuchtfink.
As was the rule, after a few voyages Spuchtfink went to sailor's
school in Elsfleth and completed his courses in 1957. Many of his
classmates signed on aboard the famous Flying-P liner, the Pamir,
one of the last commercial sailing vessels and a ship Spuchtfink
knew well from an ealier voyage.
The "Spuchtfink Coin" was created to honour the memory of a fine
ship and the young men who sailed in her.