So today Jules picked me up at 6.30am to spend this the first day caching close to the town centre.
We picked up a few drive by's on way and also pulled up to do a virtual Silbury Hill, Avebury (Wiltshire) by The Wombles.... Silbury Hill is the largest manmade hill in Europe. It was constructed 4600 years ago, used by the Romans as a marker to construct their road (now the A4) and then as a hillfort by the Saxons. It is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument within the World Heritage Area of Avebury.
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| The nice little hill! |
A Series for Your Pleasure by stanthews
http://coord.info/GC296MG
A nice 4 mile walk with 24 caches in this series, there is chance to pick up a fair few more as there are many others close by.
We parked up by #24 and walked down a lovely little lane taking in #24 and #23 first before getting to #1.
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| On our way to #1 of the series. |
From #1 it was time to hit some fields and lovely countryside. It was nearly all fields and small paths from now on with the exception of a few short tracks.
The weather was holding up for us nicely, after all the rain we have been having lately it was such a relief.
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| There was a none series cache hidden here. |
We didn't pass any cattle on the route today which is always nice. The caches and the walk as a whole were great and a perfect way to start our stay in Devizes.
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| Jules signing a log - for a change haha! |
When back at the car we had a quick cup of coffee and a couple of chocolate biccies before heading off for the second series of the day.
On the way of course we had to do a couple of drive by's and one of those was in the town centre. Blind House - Devizes by Hellspaw Blind houses are miniature lockups employed for the short term detention of miscreants.
We were giggling so much as we prepared to do this one as we both donned Hi Viz vests, but it had to be done just for laughs alone.
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| Hi Viz but nobody around haha. |
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| Jules at the "Blind house" |
So after the silliness it was back to business, we parked car at Travelodge and checked into our rooms and set straight off on foot to next series....
Etchilhampton Hill by stanthews
http://coord.info/GC29M3K
A simple series of 29 caches over a 5 mile walk or ride as this whole series is suitable for push bikes, there are no stiles to climb but one or two of the caches may need a bit of a climb.
There is also a puzzle and multi that can be collected on the route, well the puzzle final is a slight diversion.
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| A white horse on the horizon. |
This walk was really lovely and on byways mainly, there was one ascent of which was pretty easy and gradual. We also passed a pub before the climb but unfortunately we opted to give it a miss and to visit one at end of day instead.
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| Lovely greenery. |
For trigpoint baggers there was one up there with a cache next to it and its also a YOSM so you can bag 2 caches for one.
As we descended we saw lots of cattle but fortunately we didn't have to walk past them.
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| A happy Jules with the Wiltshire backdrop. |
I think we both enjoyed this series more than the first one but they were both great and some good caches too....none of them being difficult to find though.
We headed back to Travelodge and both allowed ourselves 45 mins to get changed and showered before meeting up to go get some food and bag a couple more smilies on the way.
A really nice end to a fantastic day in beautiful countryside.
Total smilies in the bag today = 72 (A personal best for Jules, yay!!!)
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