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Stories from my Geocaching adventures

Caches 4199 to 4214 – YOSM 15th Birthday Celebrations on Hadrians Wall

Of course once one 15th Birthday event had been organised and the hotel booked other events were arranged, and it so happened that one was arranged for the Sunday to be held on Hadrians Wall near Haltwhistle, and that was near enough on my way home, so I booked a B&B for the Saturday night and had a walk along the wall on Sunday morning.

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Caches No’s 4178 to 4183 – Escape Room Caches

As several of the 2018 Mega Committee like puzzle caches the rise in popularity of Escape Rooms is a good thing. For people that don’t know an ‘escape room’ is where a team of you get locked in a room and have to solve various puzzles to find the key to get out. Puzzle caches have led us to be able to recognise the puzzle methods so we consider ourselves to be good enough to take on any Escape Room.
Escape Rooms can be quite expensive so Groupon deals are a way of bringing the cost down… but you may have to travel a little further than expected to get a good deal. Combining an escape room visit with a ‘Meet The Committee’ meeting became a popular concept with us in 2017 !

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Caches 4163 to 4177 – A Weekend at Bill’s Place

Adam was holding a GAGB event in Stratford on Avon, Shakespeare Country. So I decided this would be an ideal opportunity to publicise the 2018 Mega to the cachers in the Midlands. Angel78 decided she wanted to come along as well so while Adam booked a bed in the Youth Hostel where the event was taking place I booked a room at the Mary Arden pub next to where Shakespeare lived after he got married Continue reading

Caches 4151 to 4160 – The Last 10 Caches Of 2016

The last 10 caches of 2016… 3 Survey Monuments and 7 Events, no tupperware in sight – and though I did use a GPS to locate the more remote YOSM got out of the habit of keeping the caches on it up to date. I managed 225 smileys in 2016 which makes it by far the worst full year I’ve had for caching, only 22 caches more than the 203 I found in 2009, and I only started caching at the very end of May so that 203 was in 7 months.

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