GC1HQ2M: Stay Main Rd

Found on 2009-09-26 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Womble&Gobbi
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1HQ2M

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Another easy find, great location! Thoroughly enjoyed cycling around this park today and seeing all the watersports as well as all this fine weather we are having. Cycling through dog-poo I enjoyed not so much. I don't mind dog walkers, I just wish they would scoop it up and not leave it for others to 'discover'.

TFTC![font=Verdana]

GC1HQ2Y: Anyone for Polo

Found on 2009-09-26 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Womble&Gobbi
Size: Small (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1HQ2Y

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Easy find - in the first place I looked straight away.

Shame there was no water polo on when we turned up, would have liked to see a game in progress like the previous loggers.

TNLNSL TFTC![font=Verdana]

GC1HQ3X: AquaSplash

Found on 2009-09-26 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Womble&Gobbi
Size: Small (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1HQ3X

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Our first time at the Aquadrome after living in Watford for 2 years. Decided to cycle down here - perfect day and unnaturally warm, sunny weather for this late in Semptember. This beautiful place, reminds me of Mainau, near Kontanz, DE.

Cache was a bold hide, visible from the path if you know what you're looking for! Lovely location though, me and the wife picnic'd on the table and benches nearby. Log was a little damp, we had a spare sandwich bag, so we wrapped it in that.

Took the Cornish World TB and left Dschinni TB. TFTC! [^][font=Verdana]

GC1HQ43: Sign of the Times

Found on 2009-09-26 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Womble&Gobbi
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1HQ43

[font=Trebuchet Ms]Yep, read the title and spotted the location, wife dashed over there before I had a chance and had already spotted it, but left it for me to retrieve.

TFTC.[font=Verdana]

GC1H9M7: Gobbi's Birthday Cache No 2

Found on 2009-09-26 at 19:00:00
Placed by: womble&gobbi
Size: Small (Difficulty: 2.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1H9M7

[font=Tahoma]Second find of the series. Nice to see a bigger container round these parts.

Second one beaten to by the wife too. We are now starting to get a bit competitive. TNLNSL.[font=Verdana]

GC1H9KM: Gobbi's Birthday Cache No1

Found on 2009-09-26 at 19:00:00
Placed by: womble&gobbi
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 2.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1H9KM

[font=Tahoma]Decided to cycle down the the Aquadrome today. We were intending to attempt the Chiltern 100 but yours truly was out late last night in my alter ego as a Street Angel in Watford town centre.

Nice little hide found easily by the wife. TFTC![font=Verdana]

GC4E4B: 16th Century Pub (Central London)

Found on 2009-09-23 at 19:00:00
Placed by: The Wombles
Size: Virtual (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 1)
Location: London, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC4E4B

Another easy lunchtime cache, found without the aid of GPSr.

Didn't stop for a drink as I was on my own, but my sister in law is in town next week from Canada, and wants to visit a traditional English pub - I don't think you can get more traditional than this!

TFTC!

GCTK2V: Avenue to The Mansion

Found on 2009-09-20 at 19:00:00
Placed by: mafiu
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCTK2V

Spotted quite easily, found a little bit more difficult. I jumped in from the wrong direction and got stung, whilst my wife made the retrieval from a much more sensible position from the other direction.

Beautiful area with nice vistas. TNLNSL TFTC!

GC1XP0V: Bucks/Beds/Herts Border-ing on the Ridiculous #21

Found on 2009-09-20 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Sinclair of Rosslyn
Size: Not chosen (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 1)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1XP0V

Thanks for the great BBQ, first event and it was good to meet and converse with a few cachers from the area!

GC1VED3: 3rd Chiswick Centenary Camp - Wolves Cache

Found on 2009-09-19 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Hubert Martin
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1VED3

Decided to do a little night-caching after visiting friends in Chiswick.

Arrived at 10:40pm. Kept setting off the security light of the house opposite whilst we bumbled around the gate waiting for Garmin to pick up the satellites.

Nice quick cache n dash - found the spot right away as we walked up to it with our torches.

GC1VECV: 3rd Chiswick Centenary Camp - Ravens Cache

Found on 2009-09-19 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Hubert Martin
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1VECV

Nice little ego stroke after failing the Bulls Cache.

At this point we must have been noticed because a beam of light was shining down on us at the corner of the field from the farmhouse, where 4 horses had now gathered.

We pressed on up the path and was quickly found in the most obvious place by the wife. On the way back one of the horses freaked us out when he decided to put his foot in one of the metal troughs and make some noise!

GC1VEC8: 3rd Chiswick Centenary Camp - Curlew Cache

Found on 2009-09-19 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Hubert Martin
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1VEC8

You'd think a dark lane in the middle of nowhere would be perfect for skulking around looking for a hidden micro, but this was even more difficult than the last 2 due to the fact muggles were leaving a party at the house nearby and taking a long time to do it.

Thankfully, it was not difficult to retrieve, take back to the car, sign the log and replace.

Thanks for the series - we'll be back for that pesky Bulls Cache.

GC1XDXX: Chorleywood House 4 - Chess Valley

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Regular (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1XDXX

Love places like this by the water, took some pictures but only on my BlackBerry unfortunately as we forgot the camera. Very funny sign near the cache (well, funny but poignant message). http://mobypicture.com/?6kto3a

Great swag items here, rare to see such a well stocked cache, well done! I swapped a keyring soldier toy for the noisy putty, since the little boy in me couldn't resist - but it will probably end up in the hands of my nephew.

Also took Heart for Children TB and left Mini Adventure TB.

GC1XDX2: Chorleywood House 3 - Water Wheel House

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1XDX2

No stings and scratches, as you say. Easy find this one. Quite enjoying this walk as it appears to be quite tame so far and there is little need for bushwhacking or getting all stung up - which appears to be a frequent hazard for us on these types of trails.

I must say that the quality of swag here is quite good. Can't remember if my wife traded for a keyring torch here or at the one back at the Swillet.

Anyway T4TC, onto the next.

GC1W8J0: The Swillet

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Small (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1W8J0

Came here after Old Shire Lane cache. Nice hide, found by the wife again. Lovely park and a lovely view in the early sunset, cheers.

GC1W8HE: Old Shire Lane - Open Air

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 2)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1W8HE

[Found quite quickly by the wife.] I don't know why I always pick the wrong side of the tree [Had to walk by dozens of fresh cowpats on the rocky path down to this one.

TNLNSL T4TC]

GC1XDWV: Chorleywood House 5 - Woodland walk

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1XDWV

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I knew I shouldn't have polished off half a tub of Ben and Jerry's Caramel Chew Chew last night. Really feeling it as we climbed the hill to this last one.

Got to GZ and found the cache quite easily, though we suspected that it was not in the place it should have been - so we checked your hint and realised it wasn't, see encrypted log below:

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Cache was in one piece and good condition with camo'd bag as described (no maintenance needed) - but lying on the ground in plain sight just under the holy branches. Signed the log and hid it in the interesting looking stump with a hole at the top - which I assume is the one you originally hid it in.

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Thanks for a great series and introducing us to this park. It reminds me of another estate back home near Coventry called Coombe Abbey, and if you're ever up in the midlands sometime you and your folks should try it out.

T4TS Fitzwesley+D.

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GC1W5DF: Chorleywood House 1 - Anyone for Tennis?

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Regular (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 1)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1W5DF

Decided to head north from Phillipshill Wood to do this one after a couple of caches by High Beeches.

Parked on the opposite side of the road in the great looking woods, didn't realise you could drive in here - still no-one got ran over.

Nice little hide for the first of the series. I was looking in the right area but wrong place. Whilst I was preparing to roll up my sleeves and stick my hand in, wife spotted the cache above my head!

TNLNSL T4TC! Didn't see Canada Key tag which is a shame since my wife is Canadian.

Dipped: Rav4 TB.

GC1W5D0: Chorleywood House 2- Pink Chestnut Avenue

Found on 2009-09-12 at 19:00:00
Placed by: High Beeches
Size: Small (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 2)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1W5D0

In my first log of this series I mentioned I'd just come from your caches in Phillipshill Wood, didn't realise this series was yours too.. aah I'm a bit tired!

Anyway nice walk to this second cache of the series. Wife was in charge of the GPSr and I'm not quite sure how she got us there but she did eventually. Checked around the path at first, then went into the meadow, finally spotted from the meadow side so back round to retrieve.

Definitely is a beautiful meadow, even now in Autumn.

TNLNSL.

GC56DD: The London Rainbow Cache 1 - Red

Found on 2009-09-11 at 19:00:00
Placed by: rodz
Size: Virtual (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 1)
Location: London, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC56DD

GPSr still playing havoc between all the tall buildings, but the directions were fairly intuitive.

Large tourist group being directed by a guide nearby GZ. Funny, I find geocaching in London doubles up as a tourist guide - written by locals with much more tidbits and knowledge than a paid guide could offer! Well, maybe...

Uploaded image as original link broken.

[This entry was edited by _TeamFitz_ on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 6:08:25 AM.]

GC1KKRK: Flonopoly Cache 16 - Fleet Street

Found on 2009-09-09 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Firelanterns
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: London, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1KKRK

First Flonopoly cache! [8D] So many of these caches all over the place it was only a matter of time before I had to start the series!

Found on lunch, GPSr at 20m accuracy! Quite a few places this cache could be hidden going by the hint, but as I stopped to check CacheBerry I glanced down and could see the thing that did not belong. Pretended to shimmy my shoes whilst talking on my mobile and made the grab.

Getting quite good at faking conversation on the phone now if I do say so myself.

T4TC!

GC1KJ9Q: Flonopoly Cache 8 - Euston Road

Found on 2009-09-09 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Firelanterns
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: London, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1KJ9Q

Okay, I didn't realise this was disabled but I found it anyway! It even had the trademark Flonopoly logo/number clue in the micro so had to be it...

I grabbed this as I waited to meet my wife at Euston Station. Anyway, I don't know if a satellite fell out of the sky today or something but my GPSr has sure been acting weird. Never actually took me to GZ, was bugging out and pointing all over the place, at one point my accuracy was at 200m so I had to rely on the hint!

I cased the area up and down and determined it couldn't be on the street itself so I took a little detour out the way and quickly spotted it as I walked past the spot glancing down. Quick grab, didn't realise a muggle was sitting in a car who noticed me, but I don't think he knew/saw what I actually grabbed and didn't seem too interested. Muggle in car was still there when I had to go, so I had to create a little diversion to get this back in place, I dropped my bag and pretended to be looking for something, his head was mostly turned away though.

T4TC. My 2nd of your series, not expecting to do another one so soon...

GC103J9: bones20 cheslyn gardens(hm1)

Found on 2009-09-06 at 19:00:00
Placed by: bones1
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 1)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC103J9

Well, not knowing this area well and only living in Watford for 2 years, we attempted this one last week and came from the big park to the North, not realising the gardens were separate from the park we ended up bushwhacking to the boundary fence of someone's backyard. By the time we found out the proper entrance it was closing up.

So this evening we came and saw these nice gardens, a little oasis tucked away off the road in the middle of the suburbs. Enjoyed a nice walk through the park. Coords were a few meters off for us, so we needed to use the hint, but then it was quickly found.

GC1E7MJ: Gin's Cache

Found on 2009-09-06 at 19:00:00
Placed by: G0N
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 3)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC1E7MJ

Very quick CnD for a map fulla smiley faces!

Muggle in the garden next to the cache was washing his plants and gave us a few odd looks but didn't see us retrieve or place. Very plucky location which no doubt gives the local neighbourhood watch some justification for their existence and something to write down in their notebooks.

Dipping Rav4 TB.

GCP5M8: Hornet's Hide 23 - Sam's Squirrel Quest (Herts)

Found on 2009-09-06 at 19:00:00
Placed by: The Hornet, Maintained by Belplasca
Size: Regular (Difficulty: 2 / Terrain: 2)
Location: Southern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCP5M8

Came back to finally strike off our earlier DNF, but was glad to know it wasn't down to our lack of geosense.

Nice little hide, love these woods, I think there needs to be more caches here so maybe I'll think about planting one. Took Mini adventure TB, Left Beavers Red Lodge TB.

GC13R4J: M1 Watford Gap - Cache and Dash Southbound

Found on 2009-09-05 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Saddlesore1000
Size: Micro (Difficulty: 1.5 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GC13R4J

Nice little CnD on the way home from visiting family. Did this one at night with flashlights. Big hairy beast of a spider was guarding this one, thankfully wife was able to distract him while I snatched the cache.

Thanks for the history. Nice bit of trivia: I also read somewhere that when the services first opened in 60's, people from the North driving to London tended to easily get confused by the name. Thinking they were now quite close to London, they were surprised to find they were actually still 100 miles away from Watford.

T4TC, Dipping Rav4 TB.

GCVPYV: M1 Toddington Services Travel Bug Hotel

Found on 2009-09-05 at 19:00:00
Placed by: Roberts-tribe
Size: Regular (Difficulty: 1 / Terrain: 1.5)
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Geocaching.com: GCVPYV

Easy cache n' dash on the way up to the Midlands to visit family. Great size container, too bad it seems all the tradeables have been plundered, but good for TBs. Great morning for this cache and no mud whatsoever - all dry.

Took 2x CZ Pig TBs and left Cachers Paradise Fan. Didn't see World Travel GC.

T4TC.