A quick find after a visit to the gardens with my family. Sneaky container: I like it. We’d accidentally parked the car almost next to the cache! Greetings from Oxfordshire, UK, and
TFTC/GLA!
Finding the cache was easy. Reaching around to pull it from its hiding place was harder! But soon I had it in hand. This has been a lovely morning walk.
Now I should have some breakfast and make my lazy children get out of bed!
TFTC/GLA. FP for the series in general (as experienced so far). And once more: greetings from Oxfordshire, UK!
I was glad if the shade provided by the trees along this delightful footpath. Working up a bit of a sweat out here! Had to break from the footpath and kick through some undergrowth to
reach the GZ this time, but the coordinates were spot on and I soon had the cache in hand.
Logbook has been soaked but then dried out and is… crispy! Hard to write on! Might benefit from fresh paper!
A quick and easy find once I spotted a likely hiding place. Starting to feel like I should have had breakfast before I set off! TFTC/GPA, and greetings from Oxfordshire, UK.
My family and I are on holiday staying nearby. I came out this morning to explore and try to find a couple of local geocaches while the children were still asleep. This was the first.
I needed to walk around the GZ a few times before I saw the cache, with its vantage point over this beautiful valley. Then it was time for a quick scramble up the tree to retrieve it.
Signed log and returned to its hiding place. TFTC/GPA; greetings from the UK!
I’m staying in the Thistle Hotel around the corner before a flight in the morning, and stepped out to find this cache – and some supper – before bed. Sorry to hear about your muggle
troubles, but this current (new) container is a good one: needed to say the hint out loud a few times before I worked out what I was looking for! SL, TNLN, TFTC.
This afternoon I’m scheduled to drive from West Oxfordshire to Heathrow Airport. I’ll only lose 15 minutes to divert by the backroads and see if this hashpoint is achievable.
Expedition
I’ve been looking for an opportunity to get out ‘hashing but one’s never shown up somewhere and somewhen that I can make it lately…
…but today, I had to travel from West Oxfordshire to Heathrow Terminal 5. Now there’s a perfectly good highway for that – two options, infact: the A40+M40, or the A34+M4… but I figured
that if I took neither route, instead hacking my way cross-country, it probably wouldn’t cost me more than about 15 minutes extra (spoiler: it took me about 30 minutes extra,
but it was a bit of a rat run for some commuters) and allow me to see about this hashpoint!
Abandoning the car.
Initial survey showed that it’s in a field, which doesn’t bode too well. I’m certainly not interested in trampling crops or hopping fences.
It was a bit warm for walking a road like this!
But to my delight, as I drove alongside the GZ, I saw that it corn had recently been cut and the bales stacked one field over. I turned up the lane alongside and hunted for a place to
park, eventually finding one about 700m away from the hashpoint.
Oh look, a footpath I can get lost from!
A convenient footpath gave me an excuse to start tramping through the parched cut field, until eventually I was upon the hashpoint.
The hashpoint’s out there somewhere!
It was a gloriously hot summer’s day and the rolling hills are especially delightful around here. I reached the hashpoint around 18:22.
Success! I’m out standing in my field!
And then… pressed on to my hotel in Heathrow for dinner, and sleep, and an early flight!
A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my group enjoyed a lie-in, eventually
brought me to take a seat alongside this iconic bear. TFTC!
Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to walk all the way past it to line
up my photo!
Thanks for the detailed cache page; I love a history lesson when I’m on a morning walk! TFTC.
Initially thought I’d be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn’t get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly aware of where to search. Soon the
cache was in hand and I was back on my way. TFTC!
Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway – stopped their muggling and went inside. Glad I came
early while it was quiet here! TFTC.
Can’t do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood.
Strictly speaking, I’ve come out to check on behalf of my family whether the queue for day two of West End Live has started gathering yet, but I couldn’t resist tagging a couple of
caches on the way! TFTC (and to the adopter for keeping this one alive!).
After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square, I somehow decided that the best thing for my poor legs would be
to get up early while everybody else slept in, to come walk around and find a virtual or two. Right around the corner from my hotel, this was the first!
There’s scaffolding around the fountain right now but you can still see it and, crucially, the lights. Good morning, London! TFTC.
Sat in the shade with my panting pupper and almost immediately spotted this clever cache container. A great location and an imaginative container! Definitely worth an FP from me.