Join me for coffee and geocaching conversations. You can gossip, too, if you must ;-) unless your mouth is already too busy with a German pastry.
7:30 am to 9 am
- German-themed attire is totally welcome!
- What would your geocaching username be if we translated it into German? I'll bring a German-English dictionary and we'll have some fun with our attempts at translating.
- Plenty of free parking around the back. See additional waypoint.
- At around 8:30 am, we'll have a raffle drawing to give away some German-themed swag.
About Dönerstag
Dönerstag began in 2007 when German cachers met at kebab shops around the country all at the same time. The tradition caught on! These special events are held each year on a Thursday. In German, this makes the name "Dönerstag" a pun: The German word for Thursday is "Donnerstag." Kebab translates to "Döner."
Kaffeeklatsch, with even the men being invited this time ;-)
from Confessions of a Coffee Bean, Marie Nadine Antol, 2002:
“….By 1900 German Hausfrauen (housewives) had established a pleasant custom of their own. Because they weren’t welcome in public coffeehouses, the ladies gathered together in small groups at one another's houses to sip coffee and talk. A ... gathering of women thus became to be known as a Kaffeeklatsch- a combination of Kaffee, the term coffee, and Klatsch, or gossip. Once the coffee habit had become firmly entrenched in German culture, no government bans- and no prohibitions against women in coffeehouses- could destroy Germany’s love of the beverage. ….”