Things to bring

• Small gift also known as power object or special project
• A blanket to sit or lay on during workshops/meditations (there are no mats or blankets in the accommodation)
• Towels
• Your own mug, dishes and cutlery! If you come by train and this is impossible, please let us know and we’ll find a solution
  
• Bedlinen if you sleep indoors (people who come with the train can rent bedlinen but have to send us an e-mail before the 15^th of June if they need bedlinen!)
• Paper and pen
• Ritual robes, if you have one and would like to wear it
• A small bag to carry valuables with you during the day
• Your Eisteddfod stuff
• Solid (and preferable waterproof) shoes

We will provide water, tea and coffee at the camp. The tab water is drinkable and of high quality (bring your own mug/glass!). For the evening programs we will provide some beer and wine for a small fee. If you have any additional needs (sparkling water, soft-drinks, nibblings etc.) please bring the amount you need. There are supermarkets in the further area, but not in a walking distance from the camp.

Valuables

The Kronenburger lake is a beautiful holiday area. Our camp side has no fence around it and is easy to enter. Although we believe in the best of people, we would like to suggest to you to bring a small bag you can carry with you for any valuables you might bring.

Train and bus info

Those who would like to come by train: the Kronenburger lake is a remote place. The station we can arrange to pick you up is Dahlem (Eifel) (important! Must be Eifel! There are several other Dahlems in Germany!). From Cologne main station you have to take the train to Kall (every hour, train Nr. RE22 (10043)). From Kall you have to take the bus SEV in the direction  to Gerolstein, get out at Dahlem (Eifel).

We can offer a shuttle service for the bus arriving at 15.55 and 16.55 on Thursday to pick you up in Dahlem.  

Please let us know before the 15^th of June, if you arrive by train to arrange the shuttle service! Let us know if you arrive at 15.55 or 16.55 in Dahlem. Send us also your mobile number so in case of doubt we can phone you. As only very few participants arrive on Friday we can only pick you up at 11.55 in Dahlem.

On Sunday we can organise a shuttle to Dahlem for the bus departing at 2.03 (pm) in Dahlem, arrival Cologne 15.39. Please try to plan your travel according to this, leaving earlier from the camp would hardly work with the program. Someone would have to miss lunch to bring you to Dahlem.

If there are participants who would offer to bring people on the way back on Sunday to Kall, Euskirchen or Cologne by car, please contact us, that might be very helpful.

Houses/Camp site

There are 5 wooden houses which serve not only as indoor-dormitory’s, but also for community purpose. These houses have one dormitory with 8 beds (4 bunk beds), a small bathroom with shower and toilet and a living-room with kitchen, where people, who did not book catering, can prepare their own meals. Next to the showers and toilets in the wooden houses there are 2 showers and 2 toilets at the big community house.

As we all have to care for cleaning what we used during the camp, we will build groups that stay connected and take responsibility for “their“ facilities.

So we will ask you to use during the camp “your“ facilities. Maximum 12 people will share a shower/toilet. This means, some people who stay in a tent belong to “house groups“ and will use the facilities in a wooden house. The facilities at the community house will be the facilities of the camp side, which will also be used by a permanent group of maximum 12 people each.

We will provide a time-frame to connect within these groups of 12 people to arrange things necessary around cleaning etc. Please note that partly we will have to use the living rooms in some houses for workshops. So during workshop hours (a morning or afternoon on Friday and Saturday) for 2 hours you might not be able to enter the house.

Roommates: we will have bunkbeds in the houses. Please let us know if due to physical issues it would be necessary to have the bottom bed.

Meals/kitchen duties

Also each “house“ will help with a kitchen duty (cutting vegetables, cleaning cooking things etc.). There will be a helpers list with your duties. Bringing your own dishes and cutlery is important. We will provide dishwashing material for each house/group.

Special project

We would like to ask you to make a small gift for one other participant of the Obod camp. The idea is that when you arrive at the camp your gift will be put in the “big gift bag”. At the end of the camp the gifts will be randomly given away. The gift should be easy to carry, it could be a piece of wood, stone or anything you find appropriate. Preferably collected outdoors from wherever you live. You could attach it to a leather band or piece of rope so that it can be worn as a necklace. But feel free to make your own choices and apply your creative skills. When you feel it should be decorated, feel free to do so. Use your imagination to create this special gift for a fellow Obodie and trust that it will go to the right person.

An object, or in this case a small gift, could be seen as just another aspect of yourself. By creating this gift and giving it to someone else, you are transferring a part of yourself. Crossing borders from your world to someone else’s. Ultimately perhaps to find out that borders only exist in our minds.