Back from London
Although the intent of this blog is not to tell stories about our caching adventures, I decided to let everyone know that I am back from London and will be posting some more valuable content soon.
Now about the trip: Got there early Monday morning and the best way to beat jet lag is to stay awake as long as you can to try and get your body convinced that it is in the new time zone. What better way to do this than to go geocaching. So with the trusty Garmin Vista in hand I set off. First it was a tube ride to the St Paul's area. Last year I had done most of the caches in this area, but needed to return as I had three travel bugs that wanted to go to Europe and there are very few geocaches large enough in the London area for trading TB's. So I returned to Last Delivery to drop off Felix #5, Percy and Mother Time. While there I got to meet Nick the Gardener. He said that the cache gets a lot of traffic. I told him that it was one of the few geocaches in the area that was big enough for Travel Bugs. I then showed him the three I was bringing over from The States and told him what their missions were. When I said that Mother Time wanted to see Big Ben he gave me a quick history of the clock. He said that in reality Big Ben is named after the bell in the clock tower.
After that it was off to find some caches. Not a real successful day of finds, but got to see lots of history. One of the geocaches I found was St Etheldreda's church that was built around 1250 AD. Then went around the corner for a good English Bitter at the oldest pub in London. I can't give any more details than that as it is a Virtual Cache location. The next spot was a DNF due to heavy muggle activity at St Alphage Gardens. This is the spot where the first bomb fell in WWII. Next it was a tour of Hyde Park where I found 3 out of 6. While in the area I checked out the famous Wellington Arch. The last cache found was Green Park 3. Green Park is where Buckingham Palace is located.
Thanks to all the Londoners that placed these geocaches to give me some history lessons and to help ward off jet lag.
Now about the trip: Got there early Monday morning and the best way to beat jet lag is to stay awake as long as you can to try and get your body convinced that it is in the new time zone. What better way to do this than to go geocaching. So with the trusty Garmin Vista in hand I set off. First it was a tube ride to the St Paul's area. Last year I had done most of the caches in this area, but needed to return as I had three travel bugs that wanted to go to Europe and there are very few geocaches large enough in the London area for trading TB's. So I returned to Last Delivery to drop off Felix #5, Percy and Mother Time. While there I got to meet Nick the Gardener. He said that the cache gets a lot of traffic. I told him that it was one of the few geocaches in the area that was big enough for Travel Bugs. I then showed him the three I was bringing over from The States and told him what their missions were. When I said that Mother Time wanted to see Big Ben he gave me a quick history of the clock. He said that in reality Big Ben is named after the bell in the clock tower.
After that it was off to find some caches. Not a real successful day of finds, but got to see lots of history. One of the geocaches I found was St Etheldreda's church that was built around 1250 AD. Then went around the corner for a good English Bitter at the oldest pub in London. I can't give any more details than that as it is a Virtual Cache location. The next spot was a DNF due to heavy muggle activity at St Alphage Gardens. This is the spot where the first bomb fell in WWII. Next it was a tour of Hyde Park where I found 3 out of 6. While in the area I checked out the famous Wellington Arch. The last cache found was Green Park 3. Green Park is where Buckingham Palace is located.
Thanks to all the Londoners that placed these geocaches to give me some history lessons and to help ward off jet lag.
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