Try the urban boxing list, sponsered by Miss Moon.
Hiding in an urban setting is tricky. A different
stategy is called for, smaller box with more
camoflage. Good luck, I tried boxing in Paris found
some locations but couldn't retrive the boxes, too
high off the ground too public. Probably could have
gotten them after dark.

--- Marisa Coppage wrote:

> i know this is a U.S. list but I'm hoping fellow
> travellers to
> Germany can help me out. I'm in Berlin for a few
> weeks and am
> attempting to do some letterboxing while here.
> Before I left, I had
> printed clues to a box in a park near an underground
> stop and
> yesterday we found the spot but the box was not
> there.
>
> I was so disappointed. It was supposed to be hidden
> under a fallen
> tree -- but German parks appear to be very well
> maintained and when
> we got there, all the fallen trees had already been
> cut up into logs
> for removal. I don't see much trash on the ground
> here either and I
> can imagine what the park crew thought of a
> tupperware container
> full of odd items.
>
> If by any chance anyone on this list is aware of
> other boxes in the
> Berlin area that are perhaps not listed on the main
> sites, *please*
> let me know!
>
> I will be planting one here as well, hopefully
> tomorrow. It's
> difficult finding the right spot. I come from New
> England, which has
> more than its share of rocks, but I can't find a
> single small rock
> here. Just flat, groomed park land and walking
> trails -- beautiful
> but not condusive to good boxing. And I already know
> what they do
> with the fallen trees so they aren't an option! Am
> going to have to
> get creative. ;)
>
> Shenerrah
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
> letterbox-usa-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
>
>


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

Try:

www.letterboxing-germany.de/laender_d/clues_b/berlin.htm

It says there are 2 boxes listed in Berlin but only the clues for
one of them actually works.

Going to geocaching.com I've found several dozen hybrid
GC/letterboxes. One that's close to Berlin is:

www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=628f77f7-07a1-464a-
b047-a707a5ce5ceb


Berlin's my old stomping ground! Lived there as a kid. You can
find forested areas in the city in such areas as The Gruenewald
(take Ubahn Line 2 to Oskar Helene Heim and then Bus Number 10 or
walk a couple of kilometers West I believe--the forest will be to
the South--unless they've built that area up in the past 20 years)
in the 'former' American Sector (I believe it's the Dahlem
District), the Tiergarten Area (more towards the downtown area--not
terribly far from the Zoo) or Schloss Charlottenburg (the former
British Sector) has quite a few parks. There are a couple more
large-ish parks not too far from the Thielplatz Ubahn Stop--leave
the station and cross the street in either direction and there
should be large green areas there. One's behind the Harnack Haus
which is where Einstein, Max Planck & several other famous
physicists often met and the other's just a large neighborhood park
that has awesome sledding hills, a large lake with some walking
paths. If you can make your way out toward Potsdam then there are a
bunch more 'suburban' type parks out and about. Germany however is
a very meticulous society so finding any 'casual' spots to plant
Tupperware tubs that would survive a long time will be challenging.
There are also tons of little neighborhood parks that might serve
your purposes well. I can visualize several potential hiding spots
on the 'East' side, too--but can't recall if they built up those
areas or not since I was last there in 97.

Hope this helps,

daelphinus

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Marisa Coppage"
wrote:
>
> i know this is a U.S. list but I'm hoping fellow travellers to
> Germany can help me out. I'm in Berlin for a few weeks and am
> attempting to do some letterboxing while here. Before I left, I
had
> printed clues to a box in a park near an underground stop and
> yesterday we found the spot but the box was not there.
>

>
> Shenerrah
>