MMG family

I must say I am extremely surprised (not in a nice way, sorry! ) about these geotours. Of course I don't condone removing the boxes, that is, as you say, theft, besides spoiling the fun for anyone trying to find these caches. Plus it is, as you say, in direct violation of guidelines. That said, I think commercial geotours are also a direct violation of your own guidelines. Here is the part I am referring to : " Commercial geocaches are disallowed. Cache listings perceived as commercial will not be published. A commercial cache listing has one or more of the following characteristics: It has overtones of advertising, marketing or promotion. It suggests or requires that the finder go inside a business, interact with employees and/or purchase a product or service. It contains links to businesses, agencies, commercial advertisers, charities, or political or social agendas. It contains the logo of a business or organization, including non-profit organizations. It contains the name of a business or commercial product." I think it's great that all geocachers must refrain from posting or placing anything commercial in their caches. There is far enough ads and product placement everywhere, keeping our game free from it is brilliant. But then why do you go and spoil it all by violating your own rules and having commercial geotours? I really don't understand. I know I can just refrain from doing these caches and enjoy the 3000000 other caches... but I enjoy them a little bit less knowing our game has become tainted in this way. Money isn't everything... All the French geocachers I've heard or read messages from on Facebook pages or forums seem to be of a similar opinion. Okay, you said we were welcome to comment so I did!

Okay, here we are back in Witney and we dropped Lola off in a cache called Witney Wander. It's a Multi so she may sit here a while, but at least the people who will find her are probably the type of geocachers who will take good care of her (mostly families with children or people enjoying a long stroll through an historic city - wouldn't those people enjoy helping a cow on her journey?. So, bye-bye and good luck Lola on the rest of your way home... ;-)

Hi! We are a family team of geocachers from France, on a holiday in England for 10 days. Today we went to the Story Museum in Oxford (they have a fabulous photo exhibition about children's books characters impersonated by famous authors, each in a differently themed room, it's brilliant!). After the museum we decided to go geocaching a bit and walked to the Botanic Gardens where we saw there was a cache... We chose that one because it is almost opposite to a very good sweets shop we wanted to visit! In the cache we found Lola. First we thought it was just swag. Then we saw she had something attached and thought it was a trackable. Then we saw she had no number but we read the note and realised she had a mission of her own... So we took her with us. We gave her a taste of a giant lollipop, she loved it. Now we're taking her with us to Witney. Okay, it's only about 15 miles in the right direction... but we figured cows can't travel too fast anyway, and besides, all the fun is in the journey !