Showing posts with label travelling troll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travelling troll. Show all posts

Monday, 6 June 2016

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 :)

Monday, 11 April 2016

Travelling Troll - Trackable UPDATE

We found this Travelling Troll back in the Highleigh Speedy Hike, he'd currently only traveled around England a little and a visit to Scotland. I contacted the owner whether it would be alright to keep him just over 2 weeks so that we could move him over to Italy. She was fine with idea and so his story began!


Firstly I thought this little man was slightly cold and perhaps needed an outfit to wear on his travels. I made him a dress that buttons on the back so that he can be slightly warmer during winter months! Also adds my own personal touch to the trackable, although he isn't mine his clothes shall travel the world with him!

The troll ended up in Forte Belvedere in Florence, Italy. We added 742.95 miles to his journey and a new country! The troll was placed with Bunculuka but was picked up the same day that we dropped him off. Can't wait to see where this little guy goes next, fingers crossed he doesn't come back to England..




As quoted in the Bunculuka post, "The walk to the cache however was hard work, the terrain only got 2 stars out of 5 but it was a very steep walk. If it had been any hotter, like during the summer, we probably would have been very fed up and exhausted by the time we reached the top. So word of warning to anyone thinking of cache, be prepared for a long steep slope!"

For Bunculuka's journey click here