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Website Refresh
I host the website with Ionos. The service and performance have been good over the years and I have not really had any r …
Read Article ›Our Alps Grand Tour
My son and I have been discussing it for years, taking a road trip from one end of the Alps to the other. In the end, we …
Read Article ›A very old cache
In September I flew out to Sweden, a combined family trip and of course plenty of geocaching too. One of my targets was …
Read Article ›Piratemania 2016
At the end of December I was at the regular Cunning Cachers event when Leane (CacheHoppers) approached me and Omiwahn an …
Read Article ›Smallest Country, Cached.
My son and I spent two weeks recently in Rome and Naples, exploring lots of historic sites and I was able to do a bit of …
Read Article ›Rain Rain Rain
There's just been so much rain recently and it just does not appear to want to stop. I had to disable some of my caches …
Read Article ›Stonehenge Solstice
Any bucket list of things to do MUST contain a visit to Stonehenge to see the sun rise on the Summer Solstice. It's some …
Read Article ›London Calling 2023
London Calling - a weekend festival of geocaching in London! Themed around Sherlock Holmes (fully in the public domain a …
Read Article ›New Year's Eve Celebration
A few years ago Groundspeak (owners of geocaching.com) decided to mark twenty years of public use of GPS satellites bein …
Read Article ›A Christmas trip to Sweden
I have Swedish heritage for which I am proud (I eat meatballs, pickled herring and dance to Abba)... so a late weekend …
Read Article ›Autumn Blues
As I write this article it is now November; it's chilly outside and the ground is damp. By the time I finish work it's …
Read Article ›London Calling
London Calling... the title of an album and song by The Clash, based upon a wartime tagline of the BBC as it broadcast o …
Read Article ›A Mega Time in Lincolnshire
I made it to Lincolnshire! A fortnight off work consisted of a week exploring North Yorkshire (Spurn Lighthouse, Scarbor …
Read Article ›More Hospital - Less Caching
As I write, it's nearly Easter 2021, a year since I created the COVID BITES video on youtube ... some of you may know t …
Read Article ›Covid really bites
So you spend all of the year avoiding crowds, self-isolating, keeping safe.... and then you pick up Coronavirus from a r …
Read Article ›London Adventures
I do like geocaching in London; there's something about stealth and urban caches in well-established location. This Hal …
Read Article ›Over the Berlin Wall
It's October 2020 - I had booked a trip to Berlin earlier in the year but as we all know, lockdown prevented any movemen …
Read Article ›Gibraltar Rocks
With few overseas destinations available to visit without worrying about quarantining at the destination or upon return, …
Read Article ›Lockdown unlocked
After months of lockdown albeit with a little bit of permitted daily exercise (really not enough for a caching day trip) …
Read Article ›Caching in Southwest Wales
I work with computers, coding and debugging, in an office Monday to Friday. With a sedentary job I do appreciate getting …
Read Article ›Adventure Lab Caches
I wrote in an earlier blog of my frustration with the battery life on a smart phone when doing a lab cache. This was exe …
Read Article ›A new batch of geekdoms
I have a stack of ideas for geeky puzzles; I don't know whether I'll get time to place them all and create the page as w …
Read Article ›Mega Time in Scotland
Wow! I've just stepped off a flight in London from Edinburgh having just spent two weeks in Scotland, mainly geocaching …
Read Article ›Exercises in Geekdom
I wrote a few months ago about geekdom and said that I hoped to put a few caches out over Easter... well, work got in t …
Read Article ›Summer Solstice Caching
The huge amount of rain that we've had over the last month has provided a frenzy of growth in the plant world. Just like …
Read Article ›This summer it just rains
I had hoped to make use of the warm extended-light summer evenings to go geocaching after work, pick up a series here, c …
Read Article ›Camping and Caching Club
My mate Kev (caching handle MattAAQ) and I have known each other since the early 80's... we were at uni at the same time …
Read Article ›April Caching
It's April and today is sunny. I spent an afternoon wandering around some lovely woodlands. It was so peaceful. Perhaps …
Read Article ›What's up guys?
"Hey, What's up guys" ... isn't that how all YouTube video blogs start? I have created a short video of a coup …
Read Article ›Explaining Geekdom
I have always been a technical person dabbling with a range of hobbies and interests to many 'muggles' would seem a bit …
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