Dan Q

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Dan Q found GLH778X2 Pembridge Square

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Walked around pretending to be texting for a while, now: there’s a guy right at the GZ who’s parked his car, gotten out, and seems to be having a picnic on the bonnet! Hoping he’ll go away soon so I can look where I think the cache is. /sighs/

On the up-side, I saw a fox in the gardens!

Update: he eventually took a walk himself, buying me just enough time! TFTC! (no sign of the racing TV though)

Dan Q posted a note for GC5JV89 Pembridge Square

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Walked around pretending to be texting for a while, now: there’s a guy right at the GZ who’s parked his car, gotten out, and seems to be having a picnic on the bonnet! Hoping he’ll go away soon so I can look where I think the cache is. /sighs/

On the up-side, I saw a fox in the gardens!

Update: he eventually took a walk himself, buying me just enough time! TFTC! (no sign of the racing TV though)

Dan Q found GLGNNFWF Jeremy Bentham

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My meeting at Westminster Abbey finished marginally sooner than I’d expected, giving me time to find one more London cache before getting on a tube at St. James (and eventually onto a bus back to Oxford). I opted for this one, and spent a little while looking at exactly the hiding place while I waited for a man having a smoke right in front of it to finish and wander off! Bit of a tight squeeze out of and into the hiding place, but not a hard find. TFTC!

(My 300th find!)

Dan Q found GLGNMRRK Where are all the apples?

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Didn’t plan on geocaching today, but after I ran early on my journey into London for a meeting at Westminster Abbey, I thought I’d come out and find this one. Didn’t have my GPSr, but my phone managed to deliver me to exactly the right spot for a reasonably easy find. TFTC!

Dan Q found GLGJ74TY villaflou

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Je parle un peu le français. Je me excuse pour la rédaction du présent en anglais.

I have been staying in La Tania on a ski holiday with friends and family. This morning, I fell and her my neck, so I thought I’d take a break from skiing and do some geocaching instead. The hike down the valley was hard in the fresh dump of snow, and I wished that I’d brought snowshoes! Or poles! Our even a rope! I routinely found myself wading through knee-high snow, and I’d ocassionally have to traverse drifts that came up to my thigh. I was very glad to reach the convenient break point of La Nouva, where I stopped to chat to a small yappy dog before pressing on.

Villaflou itself is beautiful: I especially love the cute little chapel at its heart. I spent some time investigating the wrong thing, looking for the cache, before eventually working out where it might be. Only the 5th person to find it!

On the way back to La Tania (an even more arduous hike by a different route that I thought would be easier but truly wasn’t) I was distracted by two French ladies calling me over. They were lost, having taken a wrong turn, and – perhaps as a result of them being 4 and 6 months pregnant, respectively – were finding it very hard to push themselves up the mountainside against what was now ocassionally waist-deep snow. Naturally I came to their rescue, using my GPSr to lead them up to the path they sought: a further arduous journey of pushing, pulling, digging, and crawling until we finally reached the outskirts of La Tania and they were assured of their safety.

Four hours of hiking in snow, sometimes up to my waist and rescuing two lost hikers makes this perhaps the hardest I’ve ever worked for a geocache. And I loved it.

FP awarded. SL. MPLC/TFTC!