Whisky Galore (S London) East Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
By kimrobin on 19-Feb-02. Waypoint GC3B8A

#18645 - 12:37:00 PM; Day 39 of the European Road Trip and our last full day in London. Headed out to Greenwich to visit the prime meridian and have a quick look around before the forecast rain arrived. After visiting the meridian, we headed down to the pier to catch a ferry back towards the city. Grabbed a snap of the old ship while I was waiting. Greetings from Australia and TFTV Slytherin and WimpyKid1

Found while travelling through Europe.

message sent to owner with required information. Cache completed on a cold but sunny and dry Saturday-tftc

As for my second "geo walk" I chose Greenwich. Not only that I was recommended to go there because of its beauties but who would not want to see the town which name can be often mispronounced by innocent learners of English?
I took the double decker 54, it took me nearly an hour to get there, but it was worth it. As I got smart watch for Christmas, I recorded the whole track I did - I made 15 km and more than 20 000 steps. Firstly I was pacing along this very nice and huge park, it was really calming. I liked the cache series, quite easy even if being positioned in places so crowded with so many muggles. Then I walked under the Thames, quite strange, when you realize that you are under so huge mass of water. At the end, I went for the Prime Meridian, interesting place but very crowded. Thanks for showing me these nice places. I have such a great time in here.

I was here after the visit of Greenwich observatory and Maritime museum. Very nice ship, but unfortunately I did not have time to go inside, because I had a flight in the afternoon. Thank you for the very nice virtual cache.

#4752 @ 12:57

Weekend in London with the children and a visit to Greenwich.
With the coordinates pointing somewhere where we couldn't find a thing we had to look around.... Easy!
TFTVC

Found at London trip with my coleagues from work. Nice boat, thank you.

Found this one and sent info to CO who may or may not be active still.

But as the ghost icon says: “boo!”

11.1.2020 ...odlovene s klipersom na "london tripe" v dnoch 9-13.1.2020. Pobehali sme co sa dalo, takmer stale na nohach s minimom spanku - dlhe prechadzky po keskach od skoreho rana do neskoreho vecera po peknych miestach. Snazili sme sa odlovit maximum co bolo v nasich silach a co nohy vladali - od tradiciek, cez multiny, mysterky, virtualky, par earth, wigoviek a leterboxov az po vytuzenu web. Dakujem za virtualku, gc bodik a smajla na mape.
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PS: I apologize for the Slovak "uni" log - my English is very bad (google translator only). GeoFriend "klipers" will write more. If answers are needed, he will write for me. Thank you, greetings from Slovakia.

#5280
Visited this place and found it with jarchiv.

We decided to take a trip to London, where we have never been to before. Expectations vere set quite low, as we didn't exactly knew what to expect out of this trip, but we set some goals. We wanted to visit the center, see some sightseeings, get some old virtuals, play some wigos by the road, visit challenges by the river and conquere the Abbey road webcam. We booked a place in Upton park, which turned out to be a pretty interesting multi-cultural spot, it definetely is an interesting memory to talk about. I can say that I like London, love the metro and I am pretty pleased by the night life we've seen. I will aim to return one day.

Thank you Slytherin for showing us this interesting place and maintaining your hide.

Found on a nice trip to London. Together with Ingabo. (AI)

Found on my way to a meeting nearby. Did notice that one of the number has lost a screw and is rotated 90 degrees
TFTC

Together with Awgnld on a trip to London we logged as AI standing for the first letter in our nicks or with our individual nicks.
Focus was on virtuals, earth caches, challenges and caches with many FP. Of course we also found and logged many caches along the road that did not fullfill these focus areas. We were very lucky with the weather since there was no or only little rain over the days. While basically walking in between the caches we also used the tube/DLR or bus on occasion. It was really great to visit so many fine places not to talk about all the great caches we were able to experience too.
Answer sent to CO.
Thanks to CO for placing caches for me to enjoy and find.

Marshall’s Geelong found this virtual today,
Quick easy virtual! Emailed the CO. Such a cool part of Greenwich. Wish we had more time to inside. TFTC

Found the beautiful Cutty Sark and also found the requested info for this cache. Thanks for making me come here...
TFTC
# 2199

TFT(V)C. Walked a section of the Thames Path today, finishing at Greenwich.....what a magnificent ship.

Cheers from the BaTS

A trip to London with the whole family. A few days to enjoy the beauty of London and go Geocaching. Not too much as the children don’t like it that much anymore. We focus mainly on the Virtual Cache, the Earth Caches and of course the Webcam Cache. Unfortunately our trip is way too short for us to find all the caches we would like to find. But we are also here to see a bit of the city.

On our first day we travel to the area around St. Paul’s Cathedral, London Bridge and the Millennium Bridge. Tate Modern is one of our stops. Surprised by the artwork we see there we wonder why some pieces are considered artwork. We learn about the history of London and the Catastrophes that struck London.

The next day we visit HMS Belfast. Our son wants to join the Navy and was interested to see how this ship looked like. We walked over the Tower Bridge and learned that London recovered from even more disasters. We had a beautiful view from the Sky Garden. After the Meet & Greet in London event we called it a day.

The third day we went to Abbey Road to visit the webcam. We had a great time looking at all the tourists walking over there. Next stop is Greenwich. A walk around the Cutty Sark and the Greenwich Peninsula for all the Challenges over there. The caches just had maintenance the other day so the logbooks were almost brand new.

The last day of our trip we got out of bed early. Breakfast, check out of the hotel and off we go to see the Horse Guards. Next we had a small walk around Westminster Abbey and the Whithall Gardens until it was time to go back to the airport.

Our 4 day trip had come to an end. So much to see and too little time. We will be back!!!

**De Bosmannetjes**
The Netherlands

Getting some finds in while visiting London with the Southmoore Marching Band who will be in the New Years Day Parade! Greetings from Oklahoma, USA!!

Very cool! Gorgeous ship!!

“Where we’re going, we don’t need...paved roads.”

Yeah! As a whisky lover I got to do this cache. Next to Cutty Sark, this cache is a real treat. Thanks for taking me here.

TFTC, Hesperos
(IN: - / OUT: -)

Today we came to London for a caching day, our plan was to tackle the Greenwich area and grab a couple of specific caches in North London before hand. It was a great day out with a surprising amount of wildlife from parrots to foxes and a lot of caches! In total we walked 23km over the day. Thank you to all the COs who have placed these excellent caches for us to find.
I do love an old virtual so had to give this one a shot whilst here. Soon spotted what the description was referring to and after that spotted the numbers we needed. A lovely little spot thank you for this virtual.

Dankeschön

G'day from Brisbane Australia! Took the ferry to Greenwich today and since Whisky is one of my two favourite beverages (the other also featured in this cache) I felt it important to stop by here for the virtual. Bounce had me walking like a drunken bee for a moment before I spied ship's wheel and it was straight forward after that.
Thanks Slytherin for bringing me to this location.
*{Overall find #5776}*

# 6234 - Found at 11:31, 3rd of 20 finds today

I haven't been to Greenwick for many years, certainly long before the fire on the Cutty Sark. The area has been much improved and I enjoyed visiting. There was no time to go on the ship today unfortunately.

TFTC

Still misty when I was here this morning before the sun broke through. A lovely place to walk around. Answers sent. Thanks for the virtual

Our children had treated us to a day in London followed by dinner. We decided to take the river tour up to Greenwich and explore the tourist attractions around here. We started off by walking round the Cutty Sark. Most impressed: with the restoration itself and the way the life and times of the ship has been depicted and explained. Though we didn't have the grand kids with us today we could imagine it would be a good trip for them at some point.

No trouble with finding the answer to the question and this has been sent to the CO.

Thanks for keeping this oldie going.

Nice site. Found on the way home from the Meridian Cache.
Found in Team with Mietzi. Answer sent to CO.
TFTC

What an interesting location, have seen the Cutty Sark on TV many a time, but have never been up close before. TFTC.

I sent in my answers some time ago, but haven't logged until now. I have now left the UK, so I am getting UK logs up to date. After I found the answers to this, I went in and indulged in that other beverage alluded to. The place was rather disappointing and dirty the day I was there though. And horrors, a paper cup! TFTC Slytherin.

This is the first find of a lovely weekend in London, mainly sightseeing rather than geocaching.

The Cutty Sark looks magnificent, and fortunately fully restored we didn't have time to visit the museum.

Last time our eldest daughter was here she was running the marathon and the ship was still boarded up then.

E mail sent to the CO with our answers.

Tftc

My first virtual cache in the UK! Had a wonderful afternoon here with friends Dorsetgal & GeoDog, along with Kaz.
What a joy that when the ship was restored it was discreetly made accessible to wheelchair users on all levels.
Email sent to CO....thanks for the cache!

Found on the way back from grabbing the virtual cache in the tunnel nearby. A few more caches today, then off to see the last performance of Avenue Q.

Thanks for a great Virtual Cache.
answer emailed to CO.

Found during visit of London, greetings from Czech republic.

Found this one together with my buddy besser-isses. Escaping the trouble of the city of London, we´re going to Greenwich. The Cutty Sark is amazing. The two pairs of numbers on the black door have been found quickly.

[green] [size=1] Danke für die Dose![/size] [/green]
[purple] happy caching [/purple]
[green] [size=2] peatfreak [/size] [/green]

Found this one together with my buddy Peatfreak. Escaping the trouble of the city of London, we´re going to Greenwich. The Cutty Sark is amazing. The two pairs of numbers on the black door have been found quickly.

Greetings from Essen/Germany
because besser-isses

Found last week whilst visiting a nautical TB to the cutty sark, didn't have time to find a cache big enough to leave it nearby so visiting a virtual was the next best thing TFTC

After our trip to Greenwich park and observatory we stopped here to look at the famous Cutty Sark. It was very windy so we did only a quick stop.
Sent mail with answer.
Thank you
Jacopo & Lisa

Found during my trip in London. No problem to find one of the favorite shop of the childs !!
Beautiful boat and peacefully place today.
TFTC

On the way home from the Kent Mega we called at Greenwich for a few hours.

As we explored the waterfront we completed this virtual cache

Mail on its way with the required answers

TFTC PhilPamAndRob

I arrived at GZ and soon spotted the answers needed to log

E-mailed the CO with my answers

TFTC

This was our first find on our walk around Greenwich Thanks for the Cache..

Always nice to find the almost extinct Virtual Caches! This was no exception.
What a mighty ship nearby!
Thanks for creating!

This entry was edited by valmieras.puikas on Wednesday, 07 May 2014 at 18:52:54 UTC.

Found it together with *Ivanhoe*


Tftc

One of three virtuals in the area for the day, thanks for creating and maintaining! Email sent.

We were in Greenwich and visited the Cutty Sark. A very nice clipper!
TFTC Wurzelwerk

Kent Mega 2014: Vor dem Mega-Event in Kent am Wochenende mussten wir natürlich auch einen Abstecher nach London machen und viele verschiedene Cache-Typen und wenn möglich gleich mehr davon erledigen. Da musste auch dieser Cache gesucht, gefunden und erfolgreich geloggt.

Wir hatten viel Spaß dabei und viele Kilometer auf unseren Boots!
Zusammen mit XLive und Team PanGeCo sage ich wie immer:

[green]DFDC![/green]
[pink]I_Ging[/pink]

[red]Visit us @[/red]
[orange][url]http://www.PanGeCo.com[/url][/orange]


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Kent Mega 2014: While attending this mega event this weekend we also had to go to London to find many different types of caches and if possible more of them. And therefore We searched, found and logged this cache successfully.

We had a lot of fun and walked many, many miles!
Together with XLive and Team PanGeCo, joined from Austria, we say as always:

[green]TFTC![/green]
[pink]I_Ging[/pink]

[red]Visit us @[/red]
[orange][url]http://www.PanGeCo.com[/url][/orange]

Kent Mega 2014: Vor dem Mega-Event in Kent am Wochenende mussten wir natürlich auch einen Abstecher nach London machen und viele verschiedene Cache-Typen und wenn möglich gleich mehr davon erledigen. Da musste auch dieser Cache gesucht, gefunden und erfolgreich geloggt.

Wir hatten viel Spaß dabei und viele Kilometer auf unseren Boots!
Zusammen mit I_Ging und Team PanGeCo sage ich wie immer:

[green]TU4T$![/green]
[blue]XLive[/blue]

[red]Visit us @[/red]
[orange][url]http://www.PanGeCo.com[/url][/orange]


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Kent Mega 2014: While attending this mega event this weekend we also had to go to London to find many different types of caches and if possible more of them. And therefore We searched, found and logged this cache successfully.

We had a lot of fun and walked many, many miles!
Together with I_Ging and Team PanGeCo, joined from Austria, we say as always:

[green]TU4T$![/green]
[blue]XLive[/blue]

[red]Visit us @[/red]
[orange][url]http://www.PanGeCo.com[/url][/orange]

Found this with fitzy_1965 and AwesomeL during our European holidays...

Looking around Greenwich today. Found this one nice and quickly. fitzy_1965 sent the answers to the CO.

Greetings from Australia

Another beautyful evening for a walk and a cache. The right location was found easy, and the answer too.
TFTC

We are on holiday in Canterbury and today we are going to London/Greenwich by train, we want to se the Royal Obeservatery and on our way there we came accros this cache.


thanks for the cachen

8220 + 981 = 9201. Found with ACBC66 and AwesomeL during our European holiday…

Our last full day of the holiday and we spent most of the day at Greenwich. I have been here several times but this is the first time as a Cacher - so lots to do ! I targeted the 4 Virtuals and the Greenwich Gates Series. We caught the DLR to Island Gardens (glad it was running despite the Tube Strike) and walked through the tunnel. Popped up and found the beverage house. Sent to info to the CO.

Thanks Slytherin ! I've been looking forward to doing this one for a few years ! A Favourite Point from Me !

TNLN – TFTC !!

Cheers from Australia….

Before visiting Greenwich Park we could fulfill the task to log this cache. Impressive sail ship. Thanks for maintaining this historical virtual cache.

Email Sent.

The new Cutty Sark exhibition is open and very cool. Id highly recommend a visit... with the warning of the 12 pound entry fee which seemed a bit excessive. The referb job is fantastic and there is little evidence of the 2007 fire. Apart from the Whisky named after the ship I knew little of her. I really wish Zhaomin was still here! Learn more when you get here but basically the Clipper ran Tea from Shanghai, China the first part of her life, then Wool from Sydney, Australia... our two home towns

Hoping now the boat is back open the the public this Virtual will be restored to it's former glory with closer ties to the boat... rather than a rubbish American coffee chain

Cheers from Sydney, Australia.

This entry was edited by Zalgariath on Thursday, 31 May 2012 at 12:13:12 UTC.

Visited the area today while checking out Greenwich. As other have said, the Cutty is under wraps, so not real sure how its going.

Answer to the question has been e-mail. Thansk for the fun.

Was hanging out for a drink but my daughter forbids me to enter these establishments.

This entry was edited by bkj97 on Friday, 06 May 2011 at 17:12:55 UTC.

Collected the info at 10:05am as we started on a great day exploring Greenwich. Unfortunately the Cutty Sark is still under wraps so there is no progress to report.
thanks kimrobin

E-mail sent to owner with (hopefully) the answers.

As with others, there isn't much to see of the old vessel. Occasional rumblings from within give the impression that someone is doing something to some object within. Hope to be back in a few years when the Cutty Sark is restored.

Walked past this the other day, didn't realise it was part of a cache. Part of a Greenwich caching day. Need to read up more about this landmark. Thanks for the cache.

Found it
on a great day
in greenwich.

Found by Mary & David from Australia at 1215. In Greenwich for the day to see the sights again and this time add in some caching. When we saw the general destination for this cache, we tried to guess what the answer would be - we were wrong. Fascinating to explore inside and out, and certainly impressive. Our thanks to kimrobin for making us look twice.

Found the letters and proceeded to tour a great clipper. Had a great day in Greenwich
Thanks for the cache

We visited the 'cache' first inside and out, then went up to the Prime Meridian cache, and then returned on our way back to the DLR to the site of the cache. We wandered around and then found what we thought were the four letters. Cool place! Cheers Gav [114]