Queen Victoria's Acrostics Mystery Cache
Hidden : 4/13/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE LISTED CO ORDINATES

SOLVE THE ACROSTICS AND SUBSTITUTE THE LETTERS FOR NUMBERS A=1 B=2 ETC

Acrostics were popular with Victorians as puzzles as well as verses. Queen Victoria herself was very taken with double acrostics and it is said that the one below was actually written by her. The initial letters spell out the name of a town in Great Britain and the last letters spell, in reverse order, something for which it is famous. The cache is not at the above co ordinates but you will need to work out the answers to the following:

A City in Italy
A River in Germany
A town in the United States
A town in the United States
A town in Holland
The Turkish name of Constantinople
A town on Bothnia
A city in Greece
A circle on the Globe

Then substitute the letter for numbers Cache is positioned N53 12.ABC W002 15.DEF
A. 1st letter of feature plus 2nd letter of place
B. 7th letter of place minus 5th letter of feature
C. Last letter of place
D. 3rd letter of place minus 5th letter of feature minus 8th letter of feature minus 3rd letter of feature twice.
E. 4th letter of place plus 1st letter of feature
F. 2nd letter of feature minus 3rd letter of feature minus 6th letter of feature minus 5th letter of place.

The items in this cache were won in the raffle at Deceangi's Birthday Bash. I have added one or two more items and and FTF badge. Congratulations to Johnboy-A1 on FTF

About the original owner of this cache:

Dillonthedog was a geocacher based around the Congleton and Macclesfield area of Cheshire. She was an active cacher from 2003 until her death in 2013. She hid many caches including several short series of traditionals, such as the Safety Fencing series, the South Cheshire Way series, and the Dane Valley Way series. She also set infuriating multis and puzzles, which would often take many hours (and sometimes several visits to GZ) to complete. She was a respected member of the local caching community.

I never met dillonthedog, but I solved and found many of her puzzle caches while she was still alive, and I became a fan of her caches. After her death I volunteered to adopt 4 of her puzzle caches which I’d previously found and enjoyed, including this one. Many of her other puzzles and multis were similarly adopted by other local cachers.

The caches I’ve adopted from dillonthedog will be maintained and kept in good order, but I won’t change the listings or the hides – after all, they’re not really my caches. All of dillonthedog’s idiosyncrasies will remain unchanged – for example she never provided a geochecker, and rarely gave hints. The difficulty ratings of her caches can be deceptively low, and many of the caches will be well hidden. Please remember these caches were set by an “old-school” geocacher, and while you may have to work harder than usual for your smiley, the find will be more enjoyable as a result.

If you find any problems with the physical container of this geocache, please let me know in the log. Happy caching, xxsuperjohn

Additional Hints (No hints available.)

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