London and FarmtagZ 2015 Trackable UPDATE - Geocache

Wobbly Bridge

With some time to spare and trackable to move on, we located a cache we hadn't yet done in London that was big enough. It lays right outside the Tate Modern by the side of the Millennium bridge; on a Saturday it was extremely busy. Upon approaching the cache there was a street performer playing a saw like a violin. It was impressive but I was more concerned he was sitting about 5 meters in front of the cache.. At the same time he was drawing attention he was always creating a crowd that could easily look behind and see me reaching into a hedge!

I used much ninja stealth and hopefully no one really noticed, I retrieved the cache and placed the trackable inside! We have now completed one of the trackables missions in reaching London! Little fact that the cache doesn't tell you about, the bridge is in Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows. At the other end of the bridge is the City of London School which is actually the school Daniel Radcliffe attended. So it's basically a Harry Potter Easter egg!

Squeezed in at the Tate

 Now this cache requires far more stealth, the coordinates are pretty spot on. The cache itself is open access from all angles, you only get coverage from the bin itself. Otherwise anyone walking from either side can see what you're doing. Lewis stood one side while I quickly leaned over to retrieved the cache!

We are slowly adding more London caches to our collection as we travel up there for day travels. Hopefully we'll be able to add a few more soon, we've been unsuccessful with quite a few caches in London previously but luckily we finally got our Italian trackable moved on!

Trackables UPDATE

A few trackables that we placed have since moved and I thought I'd do a quick blog to show the updated travels. 

Firstly you may remember the Croatia travel bug that was one of our first trackables, we dropped this off alongside the Travelling Troll which were then both picked up by the same people. The Bunculuka trackable has yet to be placed by the couple but they did place the Travelling Troll. 

Sadly and quite annoyingly they bought both trackables back to the UK, not only that but they bought it back to a series we literally just dropped the Ladybird trackable off into. So although we added on some miles and the owner can say it's been to Italy; their actions have probably stopped the trackables travelling to another country for some time as it's difficult to get trackables moving in the UK. 

Sorry for the slight rant but it was an accomplishment helping a trackable travel only to have it literally come all the way back again!

On the other hand the Ladybird (Tallinn GeoToken) we mostly recently dropped off in Bournemouth has traveled to Stretford near Manchester. It travelled 187.96 miles to one cache and was then picked up again and traveled another 25.76 miles to where it now resides in Yorkshire inside the cache Nutclough City Limits! 

The Glenturret 05 - besucht alle Deutschen Bundesländer trackable hasn't moved as far (can't say the exact miles as the owner kept writing every cache he visited before dropping it off making 2 pages full of miles) It's ended up in Ford so roughly traveled 15 miles. 

Geocoinfest 2015 has traveled to lots of different caches since dropping it off! It's been a busy trackable. It was taken from Sopley > London > South Wales > Sailsbury, this cache is a perfect example of what happens to caches in the UK, they bounce from one end to the other! 445.12 miles is the average distance it's traveled, for some reason the person who took it to South Wales didn't drop it off up there but instead bought it back down to Sailsbury which is a bit suspious but also a shame; would have made more sense to drop it off up there! I don't think I had started the blog when we collected this cache but it's still nice to give you an added extra!

Sorry some of these turned into a rant like state (I'm a passionate trackable collector!) Even Lewis got some angry texts from at my utter disappointment and frustration (Sorry Lew)! As of yet our own trackable hasn't been picked up but I shall update as soon as that happens! In the mean time we did do some other caches but they weren't really blog worthy as we did them in passing travels :)

The Royal Albert Hall - Geocache

While in London we thought it would be nice to add some caches to our list, we did attempt one by the Science Museum but had no luck at all finding it. our GPS kept loosing signal because of the high buildings are it couldn't pin point where we were exactly! We also tried a co-ordinates cache in Hyde Park which we hired bicycles and cycled around the whole park collection clues. Only to have the last clue be unobtainable and therefore resulting in an un-found cache..

A cache we did actually find was The Royal Albert Hall, it was an easy find and luckily there were absolutely no one around at the time! 

I don't really know what these two were thinking when I was taking a picture, they look pretty puzzled as to what a camera is..

The cache was hidden well but easy to spot if you look, the log itself is clean, dry and lots of room which is always nice!