FTF shark

Got a FTF today, o ancache in huddersfield, a puzzle cache too. based on Pi. in fact it was called Pi.
Solved the puzzle and dashed uphil to find the nano.

long journey south

Left Newcastle at 12.10 heading south, Home by 2.20, to see C then away again back across to the M1 at 6.20pm heading to Oxford and another Premier Inn.
I lengthened the journey with 3 caches by motorway junctions 31,30 and 29 but it was taking too long so gave up the caching and got on with the drive.
just made it through Catthorpe interchange as they were shutting the motorway at 8.30pm , a quick coffe stop at Northhampton saw me in the hotel for 10pm. so thats 295 miles driven for the day, glad i dont have to do that too often.

Last Caches in Newcastle

Out after work to grab the last few caches in newcatle and gateshead centre

Started out with GC1052Y Pebble Mosaic Phoenix on the Gateshead side of the Tyne, only a micro, but I had DNF’d it back in October when I first came to Newcastle for work but it was missing at the time, so now on my last night up here thought I would return find the cache and look out over the Tyne. This time it was an obvious find, took longer to unroll and sign the log. The tide was in and the river was full, a small boat was heading upstream, I could have stood and watched the river for the rest of the evening but No, move on grab a few more before retiring to the hotel.

2nd on the list was gc2vjb9 Threshold this was a work of ‘art’ on the edge of Gateshead town centre, Some of the previous logs had voiced an opinion that it was a waste of money, but I don’t think so. I stood whilst signing the log and waiting for people to move on and listened to a piece about a fire and stampede at a Gateshead Theatre at the turn of the 20th Century.
I think the public art is brilliant and different.

3rd was a micro at Gateshead Stadium Metro station GCWR37. A tricky hide on the bridge over the railway made a lot harder by the number of people most in Newcastle football shirts coming off the metrotrains and off the station past me heading for something going on at the Gateshead stadium.
I managed to search in between the trains and found the cache, then once I’d signed the log 2 trains arrived and I had to wait for another 5 mins to replace it. Hopefully I just looked like I was waiting for someonhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gife as I loitered on the bridge.

After that it was back across the Tyne and to the hotel, dropped off the car and bags in the room and headed out to grab 2 more close by caches again onhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifes that I had DNF’d before.

The 4th cache was There is nothing like a Dame , a nano on ornate black railings, which this time I found quickly then through Northumbria University to the bridge and the 5th cache, university challenge, over the motorway and as I had been told where this was I soon had that in hand too, then back to the hotel for dinner and bed,

An enjoyable trip out and 5 successful finds which is rare for me on urban nanos.

as a post script: the cachers i had met during my time up in newcastle, I had emailed them to say i was finished and leaving on the friday, but i didnt finish and had to return, one of them Northunbria biker must be geostalking me as he noticed my name on the logs of the caches above and emailed me as to why i was still up in newcastle.

update

Been nearly a year since I blogged
So quick update:
Work: finished at Urenco in October as the contract was postponed; so I was transferred to Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary to work on a contract to build two 8 storey office block.
Now in August this has neared completion, so will soon be on my way.
Initially to Oxford to work on the Maths institute bulding at oxford University for 4-5 weeks and then back up to Manchester to work on the Airport line of the Metrolnk and back to sleeping in my own bed.

House, work on house has been suspended as I was living away in the week up in Newcastle and couldn’t get going on the redecoration, but must start it.
The garden is looking really good this year, and C and I are getting our heads round things we can attempt.
I bought some roses from Fryers that were on offer and 3 out of the 5 bought have grown and produced lovely flowers, and the harsh pruning the C did in the winter have turned the pink rose bushes in the front garden into giants and they smell lovely.

Caching: Being up in n ewcastle has been great for caching as I had nothing else to do in the evenings so I went out and about finding caches all over County Durham usually getting 5 or 6 a night, the consequence of this is that my numbers have shot up, and in the 6months from Jan to June I had done more caches than I had done in a full year in both 2010 and 2009, over 650 caches found!!. ( but its not about the numbers) I have seen some great things along the Tyne river, plenty of deer in woods in the evenings, red Kites, Salmon jumping the weir at Hexham, to name a few that come straight to mind, too many to list in this recap .

So here’s looking forward to a new area to cache in round oxford, then at last after a year working away, to be back home every night and getting reinvolved in the Pennine model railway society