Caches No’s 3205 to 3219 – The Kent Mega 2014 – part III

The next day, Bank Holiday Monday was a long day for me, we got up for 9:00am and because the Premier Inn breakfast would have to be paid for and is expensive we decided to go elsewhere (and found a nice cafe where the similar food was almost 50% cheaper). Then we did a bit of caching around Maidstone and eventually set off home at about noon… we then made a couple of stops on the way home before getting back to Coventry at about 8pm, where UKCacheMag was complaining of falling asleep and was looking forward to an early night – I then drove Angel78 back to Lichfield where she was complaining of weariness and looking forward to an early night… Meanwhile I still had a 2 hour drive back to Otley, not getting back until gone 11pm… no early night for me ! Continue reading

Caches No’s 3196 to 3204 – The Kent Mega 2014 – part II

The Hotel we were staying in managed to cock up our rooms – apparently there were two people staying with similar names (though not very similar to people with eyes to see the surname was spelt differently and one was booked by a Male and the other by a Female) but there you go, the kerfuffle meant that they did give us all a free breakfasts for the first morning, so we stoked up on sausage, bacon, eggs, hash browns, beans, tea, coffee, toast, yoghurt etc before setting of bright and early for Hop Farm and the Mega Event itself  Continue reading

Caches No’s 3183 to 3195 – The Kent Mega 2014 – part I

The cachers down London way had had a bit of a complaint that the UK Mega event had never been in their neck of the woods, it had been in Harrogate, Weston Super-Mare, Perth, Swansea, Cumbria, Oxfordshire and next was going to Ayr – so nowhere near the South East. This prompted the cachers in Kent to set up their own Mega event at Hop Farm near Maidstone for May 2014 and of course UKCacheMag had to be there to promote the magazine and so I went along as usual to help him sell it… this time we took Angel78 along with us. I drove down to her house, then onto UKCachemag’s in Coventry and he drove us from there on (as he has the bigger car – and it was stuffed full with all the gear). It’s a long way to Kent from here… 140 miles to Coventry for a start and then almost as far again down to Kent Continue reading

Caches No’s 3173 to 3182 – As I was going to St Ives…

Not St Ives in Cornwall, nor even St Ives in Cambridgshire, but the St Ives estate near Bingley, West Yorkshire.
It was a nice sunny morning and I felt like going for a walk, and I didn’t know where to go so I decided to go to a place I had been somewhat avoiding for no good reason. The St Ives estate is a cache rich area that although only 8 miles from home I have only visited once before so there are many caches for me to find… Continue reading

Cache No. 3172 – GC4ARJP TRIG (revisited (again))

28th April 2014 – TRIG GC4ARJP – cache #3172
Having tried and failed twice to find the Trig puzzle cache up on the moor I had a message from the CO that he had been to check and the cache had indeed gone missing… and that he had put out a replacement, so I went to have another look for it, without my GPS, I mean I remembered where my co-ordinates had taken me first time and I knew I was only a few yards out with them… I thought I knew where it would be hidden as well – but it wasn’t there so I had to spend another ten minutes or so searching round in an ever widening spiral until I found it…

Caches No’s 3168 to 3171 – Happy Birthday To Me

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday FOX 661L, Happy Birthday to me…
Last year on my birthday I went out to find a 5/5 puzzle cache without the co-ordinates (see cache #2439), this year it was on a Saturday and I decided to go shopping instead !
While I was out I did a new Earthcache that had appeared in Harrogate. In the evening there was an event to ‘celebrate’ the return of a group of local cachers who had flown to Dublin for the day to get some of the interesting caches there… They had also held an event in Dublin before they set off home Continue reading