+toonburner Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 We're new to Geocaching and would like to attend the Durham Meet on 30th September at the pub in Pity Me. Having not attended an event before, is is child friendly or is it geared towards seasoned geocachers? I'm keen to hunt with someone else who will probably know what they are doing (unlike me!)What can we expect from the meet? And finally, what pub is the meeting held at and at what time? Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 We're new to Geocaching and would like to attend the Durham Meet on 30th September at the pub in Pity Me. Having not attended an event before, is is child friendly or is it geared towards seasoned geocachers? I'm keen to hunt with someone else who will probably know what they are doing (unlike me!)What can we expect from the meet? And finally, what pub is the meeting held at and at what time? You've posted this in the "general" forum, but I think you might be looking for a region-specific forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showforum=50 Any events we've attended are child-friendly and newbie-friendly. The purpose of events is to "meet and greet", so all are welcome, as far as I know. It's a great opportunity to get to meet experienced cachers in your area, and to let them know that you would like to go out caching with some buddies. Have fun. B. Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 We're new to Geocaching and would like to attend the Durham Meet on 30th September at the pub in Pity Me. Having not attended an event before, is is child friendly or is it geared towards seasoned geocachers? I'm keen to hunt with someone else who will probably know what they are doing (unlike me!)What can we expect from the meet? And finally, what pub is the meeting held at and at what time? You've posted this in the "general" forum, but I think you might be looking for a region-specific forum: http://forums.Ground...hp?showforum=50 Any events we've attended are child-friendly and newbie-friendly. The purpose of events is to "meet and greet", so all are welcome, as far as I know. It's a great opportunity to get to meet experienced cachers in your area, and to let them know that you would like to go out caching with some buddies. Have fun. B. Nope... it's in the right forum. Durham is in the north east of England and I'm sure Mandy or someone will be along soon to answer the OP's query. Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 When I replied to the thread, it was in the Geocaching Topics forum, I'm pretty sure. I naturally assumed the OP was referring to Durham, North Carolina. B. Quote Link to comment
+castagnari Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 When I replied to the thread, it was in the Geocaching Topics forum The thread is duplicated in "Geocaching topics" Quote Link to comment
+duncanhoyle Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 We're new to Geocaching and would like to attend the Durham Meet on 30th September at the pub in Pity Me. Having not attended an event before, is is child friendly or is it geared towards seasoned geocachers? I'm keen to hunt with someone else who will probably know what they are doing (unlike me!)What can we expect from the meet? And finally, what pub is the meeting held at and at what time? Pub details are on the cache page at http://coord.info/GC3TA2T The monthly NE event usually changes venue every month with someone different organising it. This is the first visit to this pub so I can't say for sure what it'll be like but the pub website (http://www.brewersfayre.co.uk/brewersfayre/our-pubs/newcastle/dunelm-ridge.html) says it has stuff for kids. The event is usually nothing more than several of the locals getting together in a pub for a chat about caches, caching, latest adventures, future plans or anything else either cache or non-cache related. I don't remember seeing any kids at any of these evening events and I've been to most of them since we started last year. Of course, that's no reason not to take them. Attendence varies and has been as high as 20 I think. If you want to chat with some of the locals before turning up several of us post on our local forum at http://www.negeocaching.co.uk/index.cgi Duncan Quote Link to comment
+toonburner Posted August 31, 2012 Author Share Posted August 31, 2012 Thanks Duncan, I wasn't sure if a meet was to actually go and search or to discuss. I'll take a look at the local forum. Quote Link to comment
+Us 4 and Jess Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Nope... it's in the right forum. Durham is in the north east of England and I'm sure Mandy or someone will be along soon to answer the OP's query. Oh that would be me then Hiya Toonburner, yep I am Mandy one fifth of Us 4 and Jess, and I am from Durham the one in the North east of England not the one in North Carolina in Yankland... Up until earlier this year I held a monthly event at Dunelm Ridge, Pity Me, in all honesty in all the time I had an event there no one brought their kids along the youngest person that used to attend was my youngest son who is 17, the pub does allow kids though until 9pm (When they stop serving food) in my humble opinion I think unless there were a couple of kids who could talk to each other, listen to music, play handheld games ect they would be bored out of their minds...as there is nothing there for them to do, of course you could just pop in for an hour to see how things go, as I say this is just my opinion. The Durham cahers have just this week opened a forum on FaceBook this can be found at the following link .. http://www.facebook.com/groups/436411913077968/ Pop in and say "hello" and ask any questions you need help with there, I am sure you will be made very welcome Mandy Quote Link to comment
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