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Wolf&Bunny

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  1. I've been watching this story from afar as we moved to Switzerland last year so aren't actually in the UK any more. However I thought it might add another perspective... I'm a British 'phone cacher' but have found caches in several countries now including in central London (including just off Whitehall), Berlin (an ammo box), Chicago, Barcelona.... The whole Wetherby story makes me laugh, cringe, and worry about my next cache in equal parts... I wondered if GAGB have ever thought about involving politicians in this whole process? I'm a political lobbyist and (before I moved to Switzerland) cached whilst attending the political party conferences (now that's security gone crazy but still no problems with the caches) and talked about caching to a few friends who are MPs/MEPs/Lords. We could hold an event at Parliament, with the support of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Rambling perhaps, invite senior police officers from all the Forces (who would turn an invite to an event at Parliament down?) and explain about caching. We could even take them to find the cache that's only 5 mins from Parliament. It needn't cost a lot to do and we could even turn it into an event cache and make them all join geocaching.com! Just a thought and I'm happy to help if I can... Bunny PS Deci I thought your interview on the BBC was great and thanks to all the reviewers for their hard work.
  2. Sorry not the best wording! MarkandLynn are right I did mean get the final co-ords for the Father to Jekyll & Hyde cache before heading up Arthur's Seat - otherwise you might find yourself going around in circles! The Arthur's Seat cache is brilliant as well and, as Haggis Hunter says, it's not a multi. Sorry for any confusion! It would be worth treking up to the top of Arthur's Seat even if it didn't have a cache though as it's a fabulous view. Having said that I'd probably have never made it up there without the added incentive so thanks HH!
  3. If you're in Edinburgh there are two (and probably more) great multi caches as you come down the Royal Mile (start at the castle and work down). They're a great way to see the main tourist bit of Edinburgh, read a bit of the history and find two caches. Father to Jekyll & Hyde (GC196YK) has a decent size cache to find. If you are planning on going up Arthur's Seat (there's an Earthcache at the top) it's worth working out the final co-ords for this first... Edinburgh's Royal Mile (GCKTYK) is a micro but the stages of the multi contain loads of history so it's really interesting.
  4. I only discovered Geocaching cos I got a new phone two weeks ago! I got an iphone (only available on O2) and was looking for a map application when the geocaching application appeared. Intrigued I found the website and have talked about nothing else since - and found five caches with the iphone. The Iphone has an offical geocaching application you can download for a couple of pounds. When you want to find a geocache you can either look for a specific cache by number or ask the iphone to tell you all the nearby caches. It then links to google maps for mapping and has a compass/gps function for navigation. You can look up trackables and save favourite caches as well. I think you can even log your finds but I've not used that function yet. I've downloaded a separate (and free) gps navigation application as well which proved useful at a multicache at the weekend when I needed to enter new coordinates - the geocache application doesn't like that! Accurate enough. The iphone is pretty battery guzzling and not very hardy though so it rather depends on how you cache. I'm most likely to do caches when I've got a few spare minutes and can't always predict where in the country I'll be. I'm also unlikely to go out in the rain (!) so perfect for me.
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