Caching Tales

In this week’s Caching Tales we re-live the second half of our holiday adventures on the South West coast.   We start with a short drive to St Agnes to do a new series of adventure labs. They proved to be a really nice walk around the village taking in some less touristy features.  One of the locations was at a secret garden, which had been created on a little bit of waste land by an elderly local man. As we arrived we were a little surprised to find quite a large group of locals gardening and giving it a general tidy up.  It wasn’t long before I got chatting to some of them, and learnt more about the garden’s history and the man who created it. In return, I told them all about geocaching, and they all seemed really interested. Hopefully, we have some new recruits. After collecting a couple of traditionals, we headed out of the town to an old mining area, now a large wasteland covered in rubble. Although, part of the old mine chimney is still standing.  The core reas...

Having had to cancel so many short breaks and holidays this year, and experiencing the pain of wrangling with travel and accommodation providers to get refunds over many weeks, I have been a little reluctant to consider making any further holiday plans.  But it’s always good to get away and recharge the batteries, so when Covid seemed to be in retreat in the summer, I made the brave decision to book a fortnight away in Cornwall.   As the day arrived to depart for the South West coast, I was quite relieved that so many business and leisure facilities were open again and life had, in some way, returned to a semi-normal state.     On the six hour road journey down…which inevitably turned into nearly 8 hours due to heavy Friday traffic…we stopped off for a late lunch at Gordano Services on the M5. All pre-planned of course, as I’d spotted an unfound cache there.    As the other half adorned his mask and prepared to join a long takeaway food queue that ende...