Caching Tales

We’ve had a fantastic year finding caches in the East of England, East Midlands, Yorkshire, Manchester and on the South East coast. Plus even further a field in Ireland and Mexico! But with so many great series’, hides and inventive cache containers, which were the best?  After a lot of debating we came up with our top 10 caches of 2019 - those we found the most fun, inventive and memorable. So here they are:  1. Europe’s First - Traditional (Bray, Ireland) CO: Donnacha / Chris O’Byrne  2. El Castillo  - Virtual (Chichen Itza, Mexico) CO: Valenrandy 3. Secret Call - Multi - and  The Ghost of the Corpus Clock  - mystery (Dublin, Ireland & Cambridge UK) CO: Danielk 1bg and Shadyone44 & Danielk 1bg 4. Ghostly Peterborough  - Wherigo (Peterborough, UK) CO: Beach_hut    5. Geocoin Fest Manchester 2019  - Mega (Manchester, UK) CO: GeocoinfestEU19 6. Geocoinfest Science, Industry & Society...

Monday morning arrived and it was a bank holiday in Ireland, so we decided to escape the throng of the city and take a ride on the DART train to Bray.  It was a picturesque journey to the pretty coastal village, and cheap. Upon arriving we had a very nice walk about around the resort’s streets picking up a number of traditional caches.  We also walked along the seashore to complete a number of earthcaches - there were several here - each requiring observations of the beach and its pebbles.  But our key goal of the day was the coastal path and its trail of caches, but one very special cache in particular - Europe’s oldest cache, or to put it another way Europe’s first cache!  Being a bank holiday, every local and their dog seemed to be out for a walk, along with quite a few tourists, so the coast path was pretty busy. However, we managed to grab a letterbox and a couple of traditional caches without being spotted. The second traditi...

This week I took the other half on his first ever trip to Ireland, land of the leprechaun, lucky charms, countless Eurovision winners and a Norwegian 80s band doing their first 30th Anniversary gig! Yes, we headed to Dublin to see A-Ha’s opening concert on their ‘Hunting High and Low’ tour. During the five day trip we also did some hunting high and low of our own, taking the opportunity to pick up a number of brilliant geocaches around the city and beyond. After a very short and cheap Ryan Air flight we touched down at Dublin airport and after a 10 minute taxi ride, we were booking into our hotel on the edge of the city centre.  Keen to get out and about exploring, we dumped our bags and set off for nearby O’Connell Street Lower where a virtual and several earthcaches were showing on the map. The virtual was by an amazing pin point monument called The Spike. At 120 metres high it really is quite something and proved a little hard to capture in one photo...