When an Armidale woman found a Dixie can among her own fathers war relics, the story she discovered is now taking her to the Netherlands.
Have you ever found something that's presented itself as a mystery, and you suddenly find yourself totally absorbed in solving it?
That's what the last 5 years have been like for Armidale's Barbara Vanselow.
The item: An army issue Dixie can covered in engravings in a foreign language, found in her parents home.
The mystery? Who it belonged to and the story behind it.
Barbara has solved the mystery, and on Sunday is heading to the Netherlands.
Here's Jennifer Ingall talking with Barbara about the can, and what has turned out to be an intriguing story.
Barbara's dad George Vanselow survived the POW camps, and interestingly Barbara tells us he by chance met up again with a lady he had always been very sweet on in the repatriation hospital, they were married 5 months later, and the rest is history.