Letterbox Hybrid Cache:"London Letterbox and Travelbug Exchange"
Virtual cache:"Paddington Dare"
Mystery cache:"RSPB Stag night"
Traditional caches (x 9):Criss Cross Bridge, Queen Vic's dad, Parliament View, Little and Large,
Famous in the 60s, Cara's College Cache, Rock and a Hard Place, Gordon Square Garden, Paddington Street Gardens.
This was possibly the last of the big cache hunts, hence the red ink to note the sobriety of the occasion. Several "itches" were succesfully scratched on this trip. Two specific caches - "Paddington Dare" (Virtual) and "London Letterbox and travelbug exchange" - had been on my hitlist for over a year, and these were duly knocked off the hitlist at long last. My 250th find occured at the last cache I visited, namely "Queen Vic's Dad" near Regent's Park tube. I also notched up my most Easterly Find to date: "Rock and a hard Place" near Chancery Lane in the legal heartland of the city. More generally, the experience of chasing geocaches by tube combined two of my great vices, geocaching and the Tube Challenge.
Oddly enough, for all that, geocaching in London didn't feel quite right. With the exception of the caches found in Regents Park, several caches were micros located in very conspicuous areas - I abandoned a couple of searches very quickly for fear of appearing suspiscious. I also spotted some rat-traps near some of the cache locations, constantly reminding me of one of my darkest fears....mwahahahahah.....
Nevertheless, this was a landmark caching trip, and one which could mark a bit of a geocaching watershed - and a more reflective, "bric-a-bracky" approach to the blog.
