Number Found - 15
This weekend is the turn of Geocaching. There is a nice trail in Alcester, so I decide to go for it. The walk is around 5 miles on good paths, with a fair amount on the Arden Way.
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The remainder of the series is straightforward, until I get to number 8, which is a second DNF. Fortunately, the path loops back around so I have a 2nd go at it and find it straight away. That is how caching goes.
Number 7 makes me laugh, when I find the following at GZ, which I think is cache camo....
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| A bouquet to a dead cacher.... |
Not much to look at on the route apart from Oversley castle.....
And a impressive stately home in the distance...
That's not my photo - i never got that close....
Back into the town and I have a breakfast at a cafe... £3.60 sounded too good to be true and when I had tinned mushrooms, I realised it was. I mean, what is the point in tinned mushrooms when you have a cafe next to greengrocers!
Had a half hearted attempt at a wherigo which as with all of these, ended in failure when I switched apps. It did however, give me the chance of to look around a town that I have long admired... nice pubs, not a "copy cat" town with the same old shops and a wedding going on. The music made a fine accompaniment to my caching. I shouted "don't do it" at the groom and when he said "why not", I retorted with "in 15 years time you will be scrambling around the countryside looking for boxes of tat to avoid spending the weekend in doors with her".
I made the conversation bit up. Does this make me a bad man?
I actually found the oldest inhabited building in Warwickshire (how the winter evening fly by) and enjoyed the historical streets.
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| Oldest Inhabited building in Warwickshire |
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| Nice old street. |
A perfect day.
I know the lure of a full English at £3.50 is strong but it's always wise to remember you often get what you pay for! However - anyone else visiting might like to know that there are great eateries in & around the town, varying from the luscious Essence (eatatessence.co.uk) on the Birmingham Road to the bijou Fine Food Emporium and Cafe Venue Espresso next door for light bites, sofas and a roaring fire in the Turks, ales, locals & something more substantial in the Holly Bush and real Italian coffee & pasta in LaVinotec (opposite the church) - then there's the Fish at Wixford and Hiller's farm shop cafe for generous portions - among many, many others!
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