Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4 London, United Kingdom
By Daoloth and Tuna on 29-May-02. Waypoint GC5E4E

#18621 - 11:11:00 AM; Day 38 of the European Road Trip and another day in the City of Westminster. While the geohoney enjoyed some retail therapy along Oxford Street, I set off on the hunt for some geocaches. Managed to find what I needed here without any drama and received a quick reply to my email. Greetings from Australia and TFTV rodz

Took a while to find the pump and many people around

After lunch nearby, we continued on a walk and arrived at GZ. Saw the required item and after doing the going round in circles thing...all the required information was in hand. E-mail sent and all clear received.

Interesting item......thanks for another one rodz.

I've been meaning to log this series for ages - had some time before a show so grabbed number 4 to start! TFTC

Found during another city walk/tube about doing some caching and touristing.
Now this was a very interesting read - I ended up going to other sites to read up on the whole series of events.
Thanks for bringing me to this section of the City.

GPComd
Ottawa, Canada

Found this one before we went to dinner.

Nice Virtual again.

Thank for the virtual

hkraut on tour with Milia!

19:25 Interesting place. Thanks.

Found this one together with Koorbresi on our yearly tour around London.

Juhl and I were in London for four days and despite visiting all the famous sites we also found time to do a bit of geocaching on our way through the city. We found many great caches and all in good shape – what an achievement in such a busy city to keep these caches up to speed. Therefore we wish to thank all the cache owners for placing and maintaining all these caches. They were source of much joy and excitement.

Comments regarding this cache:

I look at these virtuels with great interest back home in Denmark, and wanted to get as many as possible as I was here. We probably got through half of them until our time in London ran out. Yet another reason to come back It wasn't difficult to find the details we were seaching for. This time Juhl was our model in the picture. Perhaps not the greatest picture - my apologies.


Greetings from Denmark

dog’s little tracks were filled in within ten minutes of his morning stroll.
The snow is light and fluffy, and puffs away from my boot if I stamp my
foot. I’ll bet the alpine skiing today will be outstanding, especially if it keeps
on snowing. Nordic trekking will be great as well, whether on skis or snowshoes;
this last storm of the year should make outdoor enthusiasts very happy indeed. The
wind is going to pick up speed as the day wears on, so be extremely careful on your
way to and from festive events later tonight. Drive defensively, and if you plan on
celebrating with alcohol, use a designated driver or have your own party at home.
When I let the dog out at midnight, snow was gently falling and
there were three inches of soft fluff decorating the yard. Later the
wind came up into gale force gusts, and now the yard is bald as an
egg, with no trace of last night’s magical carpet. Fresh new snow adds
more bulk to wind-driven sheets of blown powder; when I stepped out-
side earlier I was too occupied with merely breathing in and out to pay much
attention to the view. The wind is straight out of the northwest, frigid and literally
breathtaking. A broad band of lake effect snow is just to the south of us; if it drifts
north only a couple of miles, we will be in the thick of it. I imagine that the snow
is sticking to the forest floor, and when the wind dies down the skiing should
be pretty good in sheltered spots. As it is now, there is too much debris
falling along with the snow to be safe in the woods. I wonder how
many wild critters get bonked on the head by branches and such
as they go about their business on a windy morn such as this?
Little dense snowballs falling from the sky are so small that they are
nearly invisible, but boy, howdy, I could feel their sandblasting sting when
I was outside earlier. Free dermabrasion, courtesy of Mother Nature. They
sit on the bare ground in the yard like a truckload of styrofoam beads has
been scattered, perfectly round and white against the frozen crushed shale." />

[size=2] A Nice Place [/size]

Found and documented

[blue] Greetings from Norway! [/blue]
A Big thanks to the cache Owner for his/her effort to contribute to the Caching community by hiding this cache.

A place of interest in London. Without geocaching, I would`n have never been here.
TFTC!

Found it interesting place during this stay in London, thanks and greetings Hebeda

Quick find after we asked a nice lady muggle who was sitting directly on the cache if we could take a photo. TFTC and thank you to all the nice people we mrt during our xaching tour. Greetings from vienna.

thanks for the history lesson!!

I've never been here before. TFTC

Thanks for bring us here

Tftc

The last of the virtuals! Tftc! Out to find 3 virtuals and 3 earthcaches

Grabbed this one on an evening stroll through the city. A nice piece of history here, although the name of the person makes me think of something other than what the plaque is about. Thanks for keeping this virtual going! Greetings from New Zealand!

Found on our holiday in England.

We enjoy our visit
and thanks to the owner for the poi of London

Tftc
FMSky

We found the correct location easily, however, a group of bikers were sitting near the pump and covering the important info. We waited for them to leave but it didn't look like it would happen anytime soon. So we kindly asked one to move allowing us to take a photo of the info.

TFTC

Love these caches, want more. Thanks for some interesting history.

Learned something today and I must have walked past there loads of times and not seen this. tftc

Greetings! catching up on logs. Found with Setsujoku

Thanks to the owner for the cache, and the opportunity to see more of another country.

TNLNSL

Had a few hours to spare in central London before heading over to Heathrow to catch my
flight home, so grabbed the GPS and wandered into the unknown.

Had no real plan, just thought I'd se where the GPS took me.

There are very few Virtual Caches around my Home in Western Australia, so wanted to
pick up a few whilst here.

This was my first. Info gathered and photo posted.

Cheers Rodz.

Second of the series down, #1 and #2 to go! Found the general location OK but spotting the correct info location took longer then it should have as I am obviously half blind A few minutes in I realised I was being blinded by the simplicity and quick had a correct email reply allowing my log. Another of London's Virtuals falls Interesting location. I had heard the story before, shame they removed the key element!

Cheers From Australia.. as usual

What a great series! I initially had no idea what to do, then went online at the Apple Store (free Wifi!), and looked at the photos others had posted. How blind can you be? Back, and found what I was looking for. TFTC, and G'Day from Australia.

Five days in London with Hullu_Jussi, 110 caches . Greetings from Finland.

One more of this nice series, pity that we didn't manage to do all parts. TFTC

Trip to London with Juhanili. Thanks for the cache.

Work had brought me to London, so I made the most of the opportunity to do some caching...

A very busy location at one in the afternoon - so busy in fact that it was necessary to peer into the crotches of several lunching dispatch riders in order to get the required information (another line that one can only imagine saying in London!).

An interesting historical snippet that I'd have probably not even noticed as I wandered past. Email sent and TFTC

I found this over a year ago and took a photo with my phone and took note to solve the prize. Before I was able to log the find, I lost my phone and with it the photo his cache. Today, I walked down from my hotel near Regent Park to take the photo. Thanks for the series.

Found this last night while passing through. Email sent, photo attached. Had visited this site a few years before. TFTC - Cajunlimeys.

Interesting story thanks for showing
nbinsfeld
(photo will follow)

This entry was edited by nbinsfeld on Thursday, 03 February 2011 at 13:03:26.

Nice one!
Had to find a pub with wifi to log the find.
Nice one again!

On holiday from Perth, Western Australia. I had a fair idea what this was about before heading to ground zero, remembering some history from my first visit here in 2007. Luckily, my "history book" was also sitting next to me when I opened the cache page in a cafe in nearby Soho, so we had a nice conversation about it all before heading over for a picture. TFTC!

Visiting from Australia for a couple of weeks. Stopped by here and collected the information required, confirmed by email. Thanks for the history!

Answer on its way to the owner.. Interesting item located in the middle of nowhere..

Given that we both work in health-related professions, we both knew the story of this location and were keen to see it when our short trip to London had us staying nearby. Thanks to Daoloth & Tuna for showing us where it all happened.

Interesting spot!
Thanks,
The Hancock Clan

11:15 am
Found this one easily while on a short geocaching weekend in London. Sadly we didn't have the answers to the other ones with us at the time to finish off this series (left them at home Doh!)so it will have to be the next trip to London. Anyway we have enjoyed it so far and found it very interesting.
Thanks