Brian~!

The one thing to watch is where suddenly quite difficult caches across water can become tempting due to the frozen conditions. Just came back from Wisconsin on holiday and it was the most perfect conditions - no snow, but cold enough to stop all but the most determined insects.

Going on a similar cruise to Thrak's next May. Flying into Vancouver and then cruising up the inside passage to Juneau, including hopefully doing the Tracy Arm Earthcache (GC1DG1T) from the deck of the cruise ship (actually, I've joked about doing it whilst in bed and taking a photo out of the cabin window!). Planning on grabbing a few caches in each stop before returning to Vancouver - although we're considering a day trip down to Seattle when we're back.

Everest probably.

Whereever it goes, can some thought be given to us idiots that cache by public transport? Not going to the NW mega simply because you can't get there. Would have gone to Wales had it been in Cardiff, but Swansea was an extra hour each way and therefore the trains didn't run early enough. I personally think it'd be nice to have one on the south coast in August. Mega Brighton or something, on the beach. Of course I wouldn't look deny a Mega Midlands as at least the transport in the midlands is the best you're going to get from any one part of the mainland.

Loving the connect-ability of the coins, although slightly disappointed there isn't a sticky toffee pudding on one. I do love cartmel sticky toffee puddings.

how can it be that when the cache description clearly tells you ? What I meant was, I saw the article on the news about a suspect object, and the first thing I did was look for any cache in the area. You're quite right to - however hopefully the police have realized they should check the same thing. Something else I can say about Rome is that there are no central caches bigger than their equivalent of a 35mm canister. Although scarily most of them are in dry stone walls. Also, finding a cache whilst standing on the spanish steps with four thousand muggles is rather exhilarating.

I did the Colloseum cache when I was in Rome earlier in the year. There's no way that it caused a security alert, as it's a small container about the size of a tictac box hidden in a stone wall. Yes it was a pain in the a** due to muggles, but frankly I think that a tourist leaving a lunchbox around is far more likely.

Hey all, Saw this while out the other day and thought I should let everyone know. My local Poundland has packs of two keysafes for £1 in their hardware section. I've had a look and the magnets are a bit loose, but nothing that a bit of glue can't fix. Also the magnets seem to be a little bit stronger in comparison to a couple of other keysafes I've purchased. I'd like to add the disclaimer that they're still keysafes and not at all waterproof, but I know some people find them useful (including me!). Regards, Brian / Miyagawa

Wow, never knew you could do that with the app, I'd been using a separate GPS app for multis previously. Thanks!

I use a iPhone 4 and my wife uses one of those new sony playstation phones on android. In a nutshell, mine is easier to use - hers is far more accurate.

MotionX also has a free version for the iPhone. Only downside is that it can only take up to four waypoints at a time. I still use it as my primary method of finding puzzles/multis on the phone.

From experience: Rome style: Hidden in an old wall covered by a rock. English style: Hidden on an ivy covered tree. London style: Magnetized to the back of a street sign.

Happy to organise the London leg of the WWFM on Dorsetgal's behalf. Will put it together shortly.

Just downloaded PiGo for the iPhone, going to give it a while at the South Ealing Wherigo later today probably. This is awesome, had no idea I could even attempt these types of caches before.

Normally I cache with the iPhone app, but the wife and I traveled to Italy for a few days (just got back last night), where we debuted a mid-range GPS. Gotta say that using a GPS (certainly finding free maps!) is more fiddly than using the phone but by the end of four days, we'd gotten used to it and found it to be far more accurate. Only downside is that we have one of the models that doesn't have the cache information on the unit so it was switching from paper-less caching to paper which meant that we missed out on a cache twice as we ended up in places we didn't plan on, near caches that we had no printouts on (tried for one, but the quick search of metal objects didn't show anything - I read later that it was behind a stone in a wall. Overall I'd recommend a GPS unit where you can prep for it, and a phone for checking for caches "on the fly". I certainly enjoyed my first GPS experience once I got used to it, and I'm sure you will too.

Those are some of the best looking coins I've seen, and what a great idea to have them made out of welsh slate!

I'd just take the batteries out to make sure it doesn't turn on in your bag. They'll just think it's a mobile phone as it goes through the scanner.

After 129 caches, I've finally bought my first GPS unit!

That'll be the one we couldn't find If you have a decent zoom on a camera you can probably read the answers from street level. If you go back and have another go you'll kick yourself - trust me.

Funny they gave me the same deal. In fact when I said I had enough, they shoved another five into my bag...

Been thinking about the same idea for North West London in Pinner after playing around with the idea. Probably want to wait till the warmer months though... but might go have a look now to see how far in advance an event can be listed. Edit: Going to leave it at the moment as we're going away in April to Rome and the days are up in the air at the moment (won the trip in a competition, and we're waiting for confirmation of the hotel and flights booking which should be in the two or three days). Currently looking at the 3rd April as the Underground seems to be not so disrupted then.

There's a quick and easy virtual cache opposite the Houses of Parliament, and there are two Sherlock virtual/multis near Trafalgar Square that are around the corner from each other and really quick to do. Also, there's a virtual if you go up to the viewing gallery of St Paul's itself. As for Buckingham Palace, there's a multi around St James Park, but it takes about half an hour to walk around and find the cache itself. At the Strand I know there is a Flonopoly cache which is a 35mm canister physical. If you get a chance, I'd visit Pax Paradise out in Hampstead as it's at the Girl Guide lodge out there and when I visited had scout badges etc in the container.

Another idea would be to put a travel bug number on a random one!

I got one of those too - and for exactly the same reason!

I found a cable that normally goes between a hard drive and a motherboard in a computer. Funny thing was that it actually was causing the cache not to seal (I had found it open), and I ended up having to throw it away in order to close the lid on the cache (luckily was in a park and plenty of bins around, as that would have been a very odd thing to litter with).