European Tour

This was thought up around 5 weeks ago and the aim of the trip was to find 2 Jasmer caches that you can't get in the UK, to find a cache in 6 different countries within 24 hours and to attend a Belgian Mega event. I put a post on the Group Caching trips group on Facebook and within a few days there were 5 of us all comitted to the trip.
We had booked return Ryanair flights from Stansted airport to Maastricht airport in NL for only £20 each.

Day 1
A very early start to the day, Griff (BaggieDave) picked me up and we drove and dropped car off at Mark & Alison's (colonel&crew) house. Alison then drove us all the way to Stansted picking Kev (Lorri-Ann & Kev) up on way. In between Kev's house and Stansted was to be our first country in the bag....the UK of course.

LQ:GTR LONDON - Oakwood Park
I like to pick up a Little Quest cache if I am ever near one and although it wasn't on the route, everyone kindly agreed we could go for it.
We parked up close to an entrance to the park and entered via torchlight, after finding the cache and heading back to the car it was starting to get light.

So with the first country bagged, we had parked up at airport and had a short wait before flying over to NL.
At airport we picked up the hire car but before setting off we all walked over to the nearest cache.

TRAVEL BUG AIRPORT (edition 4.0)
This was conveniently located close to airport entrance and our first ammo can of the trip. The cache was hidden in the ground slightly with camo over the top.



Griff soon finds the cache and NL is in the bag.

So a quick walk back to the car where I volunteered to do all the driving until we got to the Luxembourg cache. Next stop was Germany.
The first cache we went to in Germany we DNF'ed but that was mainly due to not finding it instantly and not being able to translate into English. We moved on slightly down the road to do 2 caches
Nano am Kronenberg & Kronenberg I - Backenzahn, neither of them were as good as the one in NL but we found a good photo opportunity nearby.
So that was our 3rd country in the bag.

Germany just found :)

Our schedule for the day has started well and no time lost with the DNF, it was time for the longest drive so far (which wasn't much) into Luxembourg, via Belgium.
We had to make a quick stop just after we got over the border I was in desperate need of a loo break so we parked by some lovely woods.

Donkelser Wollef
This was one of our 2 Luxembourg caches and another that we could park up alongside. We had no problem with either of the L caches although Mark had to jump up for the other.

Mark with the Wolfman

After these caches Griff took over the driving where we drove back into Belgium to go after one of the two caches that I really wanted.

Geocache
This cache is one of the oldest surviving in the world. It was placed in July 2000 and has the coordinates N 50° 00.000 E 005° 00.000. The cache was in a great location on the edge of some woods. It was another one that was in the ground and covered with a nice shaped piece of wood.

We rejoiced when we found it, it was a fantastic feeling to have yet another old cache in the bag. I had grabbed June 2000 two months ago.

Oh yes GC40 claimed.

So 5 countries ticked off and just France to go.

A short drive and we crossed another border, this time we were in France and at our next port of call in a little town called Givet.
Givet is a lovely little town with the River Meuse running through it. We decided to get out of car and walk to a couple of the caches and then have a celebratory drink.

Cologne 2011 geocaching event Givet France cache 1
This one was my favourite cache in Givet and also the one that meant we had completed our personal challenge of a cache in 6 countries in 24 hours.
This is a short walk to the Grégoire tower - it's an old watch tower which would have been erected in the eleventh century and is situated on the edge of the steep Mount of Hauri. Here you have a magnificent view over the river Meuse, the city of Givet and the fort of Charlemont.

The cache is up there, by the watchtower

Looking down from Watchtower

So a quick drink in the town at a bar called "Cafe de la Place" to celebrate our success. We actually completed the challenge in under 12 hours from first cache to last....

A quick celebratory drink

It was now time to cross over the border again in to Belgium and head towards Aalter of which was our destination for the night. We picked one more cache up on the route and Griff handed over the driving to Kev.

We arrived in Aalter early evening and checked into the Hotel Capitole our base for the night. We had a quick shower and headed into town for a nice meal and a couple of beers before retiring for the night.

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Day 2
Griff, Kev & I shared a triple room and decided that we would make an early start in our attempt to grab 100 caches on Mega day,
We woke up at 4am and headed for a series just 20 minutes away.

Langs de oevers
We had roughly 2 hours to grab as many of this 50 cache series as possible. We managed to get 28 of them and a couple of others that were on the route. The majority of them were drive by's but we did have a lot of fun getting to one of them by torchlight....It was really Jungle-like but certainly lots of fun, one of them was up in a tree at the side of a river and #1 of the series had a marvellous "Geocache Maintenance Station". I have certainly never seen anything like it but it was fabulous.

Me up a tree

Geocache Maintenance Station.

So we had 30 caches under our belt and got back to hotel for a quick freshen up and breakfast before heading off for Bruges.

We had decided that we would go and find the hotel for tonights stay and park up closeby and then walk to the Mega event.

Our hotel for the night.

Brugse Beer III

We arrived at the Mega Event and soon spotted cachers from the UK and had a bit of a chat and a small beer. The event was typical of the Mega's back at home and within 30 mins or so it was time to head off and grab some caches so we decided to do some alongside the river on the way back to hotel.

Fellow caching addicts from West Mids.

Kev, Griff and I then decided to grab the car and go and grab as many caches as possible in our quest to grab 100 on Mega day.

Down the riverside

The river

Snif
A series of 9 caches and a bonus over 1.8 miles.
There was some lovely woodland to the side of us and all caches were nice quick finds. We got around the walk in 40 minutes as we were on a mission.

Bones
A series of 14 caches and a bonus over 2.3 miles.
Another easy walk along tracks down the edges of fields. The caches were easy to find and to get the bonus coords you had to match up bones of the body to get final coords for the bonus.
The bonus was yet another Ammo can hidden below ground level.
55 minutes later and this series was in the bag too.

De legende
A series of 12 caches and a bonus over 3 miles.
An easy walk along tracks at the side of fields, with some nice woodland threw in as well. All caches were found no problem and the bonus was yet another ammo can hidden under ground level.


These 3 walks have been fantastic and great to do them in another country on the hottest day of the year so far. We rewarded ourselves with a thickshake from McDonalds and then headed on over to some of the newly published caches and did them as drive by's until we hit 100 for the day.

We then headed back to hotel for a quick wash and then set off to meet Mark & Alison at an Indian Restaurant in the city centre.

Beautiful Bruges

The Main Square

We had a very enjoyable meal and then Kev, Griff & I said we would do a few more caches and have a few beers.

3 - 0.5 L of Stella for 21 euros......ouch.

We had one beer in main square but due to the cost we decided to move on and hit another couple of bars. We managed a few more caches before deciding we had a little too much to drink to do anymore.

Oh dear, look who is trolleyed :)

At the end of the night (around 3am) we had to get a taxi back to hotel as none of us had waypointed where it was.

Day 3
We had an early start today as we had a big day of driving to do, so after eating a big breakfast it was time to check out of the hotel. As we were putting our stuff into the car we bumped into our geobuddies from the West Mids again....small world!
We had a quick chat in the rain and then Mark drove us to our first cache of the day.

Tjilp, tjilp

Another old cache this one which ticked a square on the Jasmer grid, this one being placed in May 2001.
This one was one we had looked at before the trip as all around the cache were ditches with water in, fortunately with the aid of Google Earth we took the correct approach and one small leap from Mark and cache was in hand.

We did another old cache which I already had the M/Y for and then headed for the highlight of the day and 1 of the 2 most sought after caches of the trip.

The ditch Mark jumped to get cache.

G'ebbes
A March 2001 cache in a National Park of Netherlands. It really is a beautiful woodland and such a fantastic location to be brought to. We parked up in main car park and took a half a mile walk through the woods. The cache was easy to find and it really put us all on a high, this for me is what caching is all about.

March 2001 ticked on Jasmer grid.

Some of the woodland.

We all returned to the car in high spirits and quite excited about the next cache too.
The drive wasn't far compared with what we had drove already and I took over the driving again for a while.

Pegasus Bridge

Pegasus bridge was used in the epic war film "The Bridge too far", it is a virtual cache with an easy question to answer to claim it. The bridge was fantastic and situated in the city of Arnhem in the Netherlands.

Pegasus bridge.

All of our itinery was now done so we were off to our final hotel of the break in the town of Valkenburg.
Valkenburg was a lovely town and I think took us all by surprise. It was a shame that we didn't get to spend more time here but obviously with our strict schedule this was not possible.

Our hotel in Valkenburg

Valkenburg as night falls



In the town

Griff getting planking all wrong

We had a drink at bar with the lovely owner before heading into the town to seek out a Dutch restaurant. We had a lovely meal swilled down with a couple of beers before heading off to do our last caching of the trip.

Day 4
We got up early for the 30 minute drive back to Maastricht airport for our flight back to Stansted and the end of our epic trip.

The End.

 

Totals for weekend:
6 countries
3 Jasmers
1 Mega Event
132 Smilies

Chelmsford and back

Last August I booked a Travelodge room to do the CBN series after recommendations from friends.
Coming up to the weekend we knew that a fair few caches had gone missing and it was in need of maintenance on others too. So myself. Kev (Lorri-Ann & Kev), Ash [Monki] & James (pfaffabouters) contacted the c/o's and agreed to do the maintenance for them.

The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation Series

http://coord.info/GC21RZV

A series of 110 caches over approximately a 14 mile walk along the canal. There are other caches on route and a few with a slight diversion.

Today. Myself, Ash & James met up with Kev by #110 and then all jumped into Kev's car to get to #1. There is free car parking close by, so we left Kev's car here to pick up once getting back to the other end.

We were greeted by caching friends Mel & Ray who I have met twice before with both times being at Piratemania. They assembled a table together and gave us all coffee  & biscuits before sending us on our way to start the walk.

At the start of the walk

Looking away from cache #1

The walk was very nice which we all enjoyed but it was a shame due to the state of all the caches, we had to replace logs at almost all of them and there were many more missing than we anticipated.

Low tide I guess

 

 

There we lots of boats moored up.

I think we would have all been gutted had we not agreed to do the maintenance as it really is a lovely walk. It can get very muddy in places but today we hardly encountered any.
The weather was good with no rain at all and a perfect and comfortable temperature to walk at.

A lock on the route.

We passed lots of weirs

At least now the series is fully maintained and I believe that Mel & Ray are hoping to adopt the series which was originally theirs.

Kev & Ash looking for a cache

Still smiling

Lovely area

Once getting back to first car we drove back to start of series and said our farewells to Kev before setting off to Southend on Sea for some fish and chips. We stopped off at a couple of Church Micro's on the way and then bagged another challenge cache from the Little Quest series.

LQ:ESSEX - West Wood Ho!
Set in West Woods was the latest LQ cache to be added to my collection, I think thats 21 found so far.
We parked up opposite and entered the pitch black woods. It's so much fun caching in woods at night but unfortunately we didn't hear any strange noises to scare us. We bagged one cache on the way to this one but struggled with this at first and had to resort to a spoiler pic.
After a few minutes James spotted the tree it was hidden in and Ash made the retrieval.

So back to the car and off to Southend on Sea where we had fish and chips and grabbed a handful of seafront caches.
We were all pretty tired after that as we had walked around 20 miles today in total, so we headed back to Chelmsford to our room for the night.

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We all slept really well but were all well zonked from a hectic day. We hit McD's for breakfast and decided to grab a couple more Church Micro's and then hit a couple of series on the route home.
We settled on doing 2 of Isaakwilsons in which we could do without moving the car.

Lowick and Back
Lowick and Back is a series of 35 caches set along Bridleways, Public footpaths, Byways & quiet country lanes. There is also a Church Micro that can be picked up in Lowick.
If the series was done on its own it is approx 5.5 miles.

Off we go again

Lyveden and Back
Lyveden and Back is a series loop of 36 caches (plus 6 other caches en-route), starting at the historic Lyveden New Bield, taking you around Lyveden way towards Wadenhoe,before returning you through Fermyn Woods to Lyveden once more.
If doing series on its own it is just under 7 miles.

We began the walk at #13 Lowick and back and took the very muddy route in reverse order to #5 before joining the Lyveden and Back series at #17.
Lyveden and back was hardly muddy at all and really is a fantastic walk. We all agreed that this is one of the nicest walks we have done over this way. We resumed the walk from #17 going round in normal order and just diverted as necessary.

Lyveden New Bield

Lowick Church

It was great seeing Lyveden New Bield, a National Trust property on the walk and the woods were really nice....I love the woodland bits on a trail.
We carried on around series and after completing #16 we rejoined the much muddier Lowick and back.
As we hit the last straight back to the car we caught up with Brigstock Dolphins and had some nice geochat, we even dnf'ed a cache together.
Upon returning back to the car at around 4pm we decided enough was enough and had a nice drive back home.

I very much enjoyed the weekend and despite 4 dnf's today, we still found a total of over 200 caches this weekend.

Being Posh again

So another Saturday is here and today myself, Emma, James, Kev & Griff are heading off to Peterborough....for a change!
James had set a challenge as he required 152 smilies to hit his 7,000th find. To do this everyone in attendance had to break there personal best and some of it would have to be in the dark.
Emma and James began the day before us by grabbing a series of 13 drive by's.

Griff picked me up at 5.15am and we met up with the others for a 7am start, we took in 3 series and any other cache on route.
The 3 series were Nassington Nobble by poshrule and Nassington and Back & Yarwell and Back by isaakwilson.

We knew we had to keep the pace at lightening speed so as soon as cache was found the finder signed the log whilst the others carried on to next cache. The ground was quite hard at first due to the cold snap we have been having but as we neared the end of the walk it was very muddy.

Griff after a find

It snowed lightly for most of the walk and was pretty cold. We grabbed most of the caches but due to being in a hurry today due to James's need of 152, we did dnf a few. We don't usually allow only one minute to find a cache.

Hint: base of tree

We had solved a few puzzle caches prior to the day and had mixed results regarding finding them. We found one, dnf'ed one and didn't attempt the other ....this was due to being told by other cachers that it wasn't there.

Camera shy Emma, caught in the act.

We bumped into gazooks,Ursus Bear and Postie Grum on the walk and had some nice geochat. Infact the one puzzle cache we did manage to find was in their hands hehe.

A diversion

The River Nene

All of the series were in very nice countryside, alongside the Nene and a nice Nature Reserve.
Thanks to Isaak and Paul for setting the caches.

We normally have a pub break at the end of main walk but today it was different, we had all amassed over 100 by now and it was cache and dash time all the way to an event in Peterborough itself.
Amazingly we found every single cache on the way there which is pretty unusual when on a tight schedule.
We arrived at Beachie's Birthday Bash & Cutedeadkitty's Carnival at around 4pm, 4 hours after it started but 1 hour before it finished. We promptly ordered food and had a drink before hitting a small series in the park opposite.
The Peterborough cachers were very welcoming and the hosts did a fantastic job. Paul (poshrule) even hung on to say hello to us.

Kev checking out the menu

He's a great bloke....poshrule

Haha I caught Emma before she covered her face up.

After grabbing the nearby caches we returned to pub for pudding and a coffee before saying goodbye to Kev, leaving the 4 of us to grab as many cache and dashes as possible.

I returned home at 2am bagging my pb of 173 smilies. Griff, Emma & James all had more than me which meant that James had hit his milestone of 7,000. Well done mate.

A break in Ireland

At the start of January Jules and I discussed going over to Ireland to seek out the first cache placed in Europe. Within a couple of days of the initial discussion the flights and Travelodge rooms were booked. It all became real very quickly and enabled a few weeks to do some careful planning and to pick out some nice caches to help us with the Jasmer challenge. We also handpicked other caches with lots of favourite points and decided to get to them all it would be best to hire a car.

Day one
I met up with Jules at the services at M42 J2 at 6am for a 8am Ryanair flight bound for Dublin. Once at Dublin Airport we picked up our hire car for the few days and headed for Bray, where we had a full Irish breakfast to set us up nicely for the day ahead.

Europe's First
http://coord.info/GC43

We parked up at car park at bottom of Bray's Head and off we went in search of what we wanted most of all ... Europe's First! There was one cache we walked past on the way and we found that no problems and soon we were arriving at GZ for Europe's First.

The view of the sea and landscape from here really is stunning and a great place to be brought to find a cache. We had to clamber the last few feet up to the cache and spotted the camo instantly, we took the camo off and YAY we had found the first cache place in Europe.

Jules at Europe's First

Wow what a feeling

We were so chuffed and couldn't stop smiling, all the other caches this weekend will be an added bonus. After a couple of minutes reading the logbook we got back down to the path and carried on along for 2 caches which would pose much more of a challenge.

The Wanderer &  Brunel's Folly These 2 caches were both 4.5 Terrain, with The Wanderer being a puzzle. We solved it at home very quickly and today was the day where we just didn't know whether we would be upto the challenge of making our way down a cliff.
We soon arrived at the waypoint to begin our descent and both knew that due to no rain or ice that this would be doable,

On our way down

We both managed to get down no problems at all and once down both caches were found quickly.

On the way to Brunel's Folly
 

At Brunel's Folly

The ascent back up to the path was just as comfortable as the descent, we were really chuffed with ourselves so decided to go back along path for a walk upto Bray's Head.

Bray Head We walked up the path from the car park to this one, it was quite hard going due to uneven rocks and lots of mud but it was so worth it. We witnessed some fabulous views, the best so far.

Had a quick breather on way up to check out views

Almost there

Once we were at the top it wasn't far to the cache so we took in the scenery first and then made a quick find at GZ.

View from the top

So we made it to the top and found the cache, so now it was back down a different way so that we could pick up a Letterbox Hybrid..... The Old Eagle's Nest

There once used to be a chairlift here, carrying people from the car park to a cafe/ ballroom near the top of the hill. It took us a while to spot the old framework but once spotted you can't miss it.

Old chairlift

We had no problems finding the cache in another lovely spot.
It was time now to get back to car park but we had time for one more ..... Raheenaclig Chapel
which was the remains of an old church.

So we had some great caches and the county of Wicklow bagged, it was time for a short drive to grab a cache placed in July 2002.

Films About Ghosts This was placed near a lovely tower on the edge of Carrickgollogan forest.
It was a lovely walk through the forest to get to by the tower and then 200ft or so of gorse to get through to GZ. The area was fab with nice views and the cache was a nice big ammo can.

The cache

The tower

Next up was another county, the county of Kildare.
 The Haunted Lock This was a cache and dash really as we parked by the lock and walked down a couple of hundred feet for a quick find.

Back to the car and time for another old cache for the Jasmer challenge. This time the cache was placed on New years day 2002.
The Summit This cache is set in the lovely Howth around a quarry. We were lucky to be able to park pretty close to this one as we knew we did not have a great deal of daylight left.
There were some great views form here although it was a bit misty at sea.

View from the Summit cache

So back on the road and a couple of drive by's on the way to a nearby virtual. On the cache page for the virtual the c/o won't give away on what you will find there, but I guessed by the title of the cache....
The Black Rose was placed on 1st Sept 2003 so good for the Jasmer Challenge, even though I had already got this month. This for me was a must do as the title straightaway told me it was something to do with Phil Lynott, the late singer of Thin Lizzy.
Well it was infact his resting place and there is a fantastic memorial to him. It was obviously quite sad but also very exciting at the same time.
We parked up right outside the cemetery gates and walked down to the bottom, you could spot it from a distance by the size, compared to the others.

The Black Rose

A shot with my GPSr

By the time we left it was almost dark and we had just one more cache on the agenda before booking in at our hotel. So we left the lovely Howth and headed for Bull Island.

Pandora's box This cache was handpicked due to all the favourite points it had.
We parked up in the dark and grabbed our torches for a short walk to this one. On our way there were a group of kids barbecuing sausages, they smelled so yummy....probably even more so as we were hungry by now.
It didn't take long to get to GZ and within a few seconds we found what we were looking for.

Jules with the unopened cache

This was not a straightforward open the cache and sign the logbook however as a great deal of work had gone into creating this cache. Jules played around with it and after a couple of minutes the solved light had come on and a gentle push on the lid and the cache was open YAY.

With the opened cache.

I love caches like this and it's easy to see why there are so many favourite points. We did one more close by cache and then headed back to the car.

Off to the Travelodge in Ballymun now which was a short drive away. We checked in, I had room 417 and Jules had room 306. We had a swift shower and then met up in reception before getting the bus into Dublin for dinner. The bus cost us 2.30 each way.

We went to Chaplains bar which did a Pizza and a pint for 10 euro's. It was a lovely bar and the Bulmer's on draught was good as was the Mexican pizza I had.
It was a good way to wind down and chat about our epic first day in Ireland.

Jules & Mel supping some Bulmers
 

Oops Mel has had too much to drink

We were aware of the time and didn't want to miss the last bus back to hotel so we had a walk over the Liffey towards our bus stop but on the way we took in 2 more caches.

Stiffy By The Liffey Another virtual cache giving us both another month on the Jasmer challenge, this being March 2003.

Stiffy by the Liffey

Gardiner's Treat A webcam cache just a short distance away from the Stiffy. Mrs BCC and Soapy Chickens spotted us on the webcam back at home and took a screenshot for us. This was only the 2nd webcam cache I have done.

That's it, day one is over we got the bus back to hotel...Jules went to her room and I had 10 minutes on the internet and a swift pint at the bar. A fantastic first day.

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Day 2
I recieved a text to say Jules would be 10 mins late as she had overslept but hey we are on holiday too. We met in reception again and took lift down to the underground car park and then headed off to McD's for a quick breakfast and milkshake.

Then we were off up the motorway for some more handpicked caches. We had grabbed 2 counties yesterday day time and grabbed the 3rd on the night (Dublin). Our first cache today was to bring us our 4th county Cavan....... however Jules spotted a cache on the way that sounded interesting so we stopped off there first.

Athlumley Was the ruins of an old church and castle, it really was a lovely area. Jules did well to pick this one and we were really glad that we came here.

The castle

and church

One more stop off on the way and then back on track with agenda

Mullagh Lake This was the longest drive of the trip but still wasn't too far away. We parked up at side of lake and strolled over the short distance and Jules made a swift find. YAY that's Cavan in the bag.

Next on the list was another one for the Jasmer challenge.

Gernonstown Cache Placed in May 2002, this was yet another must do and boy am I glad that we did.
We parked up on a lane and walked down a slope to the area we needed to be. It was all fenced off but we could get over a stone stile.
The area we found was fantastic, it was another remains of an old church just hidden away from everything....Geocaching certainly takes you to some pretty amazing places.

Still in one piece

Outside view

Chilling on the stile

In all the excitement we almost forgot that there was a cache to be found, but a quick search by Jules revealed the cache.
This cache was our first in County Meath and our 5th county..

Next it was straight off to go and grab our 6th and final county of the trip.

Townley Hall - Passage Grave  Just into the county of Louth was this quick drive by, but whilst we were here we carried on a little further to do a challenge cache.
Bring Back The Cache Challenge  To qualify for this cache you have to resusitate a cache that hasn't been found for at least a year. Jules and I both qualified for this so why not go and get it?
Well I am glad we did as it was in some lovely woodland.

So County Louth is now coloured in, so we headed back into Meath and Slane.
We drove past Slane Castle and down into the very picturesque village of Slane.

Slane Castle

Battle of the Boyne Another cache here needed for our Jasmers, this one was placed in November 2001. We parked up the hill and walked down into Slane, we admired the weir on one side of the road and took the footpath alongside the river on the other.
It was a nice walk along here and popular with others. Jules soon found the cache and I sucessfully covered her up away from any prying muggles.
We walked back along the path and up the hill again to take in one more cache before returning to our hire car.

Slane from by car

More of Slane

We stopped off for a couple of caches on the way back to our hotel, where we had showers and then hit Dublin city centre for some more caching.

We did a handful of caches in the centre but the ones that stood out the most for me was:

 The Guinness Logbook Of Records.
This brought us to outside the Guinness brewery, it was great to see the buildings and the lovely cobbled streets, even the street names were written in Guinness colours.

Dublin's famous export

The cache was close to above picture and found easily.


Castle Rock
Now this really was a hidden gem...In the heart of the city yet away from the hustle and bustle, we couldn't even hear any city noise.
The castle gardens are a definite must visit and if it wasn't for this cache we would never have known about it.

Artwork, castle & gardens

Signing the logbook

Jules again was the one to find the cache, definitely my fave city centre cache.

It was time now to visit The Porterhouse for dinner and a few pints of Bulmers.

inside The Porterhouse

We had a fab time in this bar and both had pie and chips for dinner. So another night coming to a close so it was time to get bus back to hotel where I popped in bar to have a pint of the black stuff.

Molly Malone

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Day 3
So the last and final day is here, our flight back is at 2.30pm so we don't have time to do too much.
We decided to cut time down by having another breakfast at McD's and then heading over to St.Annes park to do a few caches over there.

We did 8 caches in total and dnf'ed one in probably the nicest area. It was our first and only dnf of the trip.

A stroll towards the pool.

This fantastic structure was near to our dnf
 

The last photo of our trip

St.Annes park wasn't part of the original plans, we decided to do it on our last night. I am so glad we did as it was such a beautiful park.
So off we go to refill the hire car and drop it off on way to the airport.
Dublin is a must visit place and Ireland has so much to offer.

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43 caches were found on this trip, 6 counties and 6 Jasmer months completed. The first cache placed in Europe was also in the bag.