Yesterday I went into London and had a go at some geocaching. By the end of the day I must have walked some 18km (when I finished caching I turned off the GPS, but still had some walking to do). I got 13 geocaches, with a couple of ‘did not finds’. That brings me up to 65 caches overall.
Caching in London is a whole new thing, a lot of the caches have to be really well hidden so they’re not discovered by people not hunting for them - there are some really ingenious hiding spots (e.g. one of the main bridges near Waterloo station has a cache right in the centre of it (the centre of river, not the centre of road).
A few times I thought ‘If anyone sees me, I’m going to get reported as a KGB agent!’ - as to find a cache involved retrieving a hidden item, writing something in it, and then rehiding the item. This is something like a ‘dead letter drop’.
On my rounds, I popped into the Novello theatre to get tickets to see ‘Footloose‘, and also the Royal Opera House - we’re off to see the Bolshoi ballet. Add to this Avenue Q, which I’m really excited about, Stomp and Guilfest - it’ll be a packed summer.
When I finished caching, I met up with Monica at the British Museum, I’m a friend of the museum and so it didn’t cost us anything extra to get into the Michelangelo exhibition, the exhibition will remain until the 25th June.
Before I sign off, here are some Avenue Q links, the music used in these links is a song from the show. The Avenue Q
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Sounds like some fun geocaching! I’ve developed a trick for seeking urban caches — I act like I’m doing some photography when I have my camera with me. Sometimes, I just use the camera on my cell phone. My wife has a trick, too — she says that she thinks she lost an earring here a few days ago and is looking to see if she can find it.