The Cotswold Olimpick Games have been held in Chipping Campden from 1612 onwards link , and have featured pastimes far more interesting than the modern spectacle of svelte people in lycra moving really fast .
Proper English sports , ones you can do in sensible clothes with minimal training and with the beverage of your choice close at hand . Sports where an absence of athleticism may not be a handicap , and total beginners stand a reasonable chance of success . Puzzle cache solving should therefore , in our opinion , be an olimpick event .
This fourth cache takes as its inspiration England's surviving combat sport , Morris Dancing. When asked in an interview about the content of the opening ceremony for London 2012 Sebastian Coe's highly witty* reply was "Five thousand Morris dancers". Stop sniggering at the back , I know what you are thinking , folk dance has the reputation of being quite excruciating. If it is then I respectfully suggest that you are watching the wrong performers.
Try searching the web for "Dogrose Morris" , a group (the usual collective noun is "side") of young and very athletic chaps whose subtitle , "Morris with Altitude" , they live up to enthusiastically. For some reason they usually seem to have a rapt audience of females watching with great interest. Hunt out a video of their "Extreme Morris" too , and see two of them suffer for their art .
Find this Morris Dancing cache at
N fifty two degrees three (2/0)(6/0)two(6/0)(10/37)
W zero zero one degrees zero(2/0)(1/30)(1/30)(10/30)(7/30)
The cache includes some small bells as swaps , just in case you want to do a little Morris Dance of triumph...
*Yes , sarcasm intended in case you were wondering.