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Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking. Take a seat and relax for a journey of a lifetime, taking in an exotic range of destinations around the world.
Your flight attendants will be along shortly serving puzzles and caches. We will be flying at an altitude of up to... well, check your GPS!
Who knows what we will find on our travels?
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About this Series
I'm Beachie, Fly Me... is a series of 19 puzzle caches hidden in or near neighbouring towns and villages, themed around international air travel. Each cache represents a virtual flight to its destination, no actual travel is involved other than to the physical cache for each puzzle, all of which are located within two miles of their published coordinates.
Your ultimate task to complete the series is to obtain access to the First Class Lounge, where you can luxuriate and sip virtual champagne with your fellow passengers. (or to put it another way, find the final bonus cache) information needed to locate the 'lounge' is found in each of the nineteen puzzle caches - more information on this is on the appropriate cache page.
The series has been designed such that you can complete the puzzle elements at home, before heading out to find the physical caches, the First Class Lounge excepted (as the required elements are in the other caches)
The puzzles are not meant to bemuse and are deliberately pitched with variety in mind, both in terms of the difficulty range and the puzzles themselves, this is to hopefully allow as many cachers as possible to enjoy at least some of the series. Even if you don't consider yourself a puzzle solver, we'd urge you to have a go. For your information, the order the caches are listed on the departure board below represents, in our opinion, the approximate difficulty level, with the easiest first.
Each puzzle has a checker to verify your coordinates (although in some cases you'll know when you have it), and each checker contains a clue to one of the other puzzles (hopefully one you haven't already solved) although all can be solved using only what's on the cache page.
With the exception of the bonus, we have not designed for the caches to be done in any specific order. Dip in and do one or a few at a time or all in one go as you wish, although that will take some route planning! Parking is available near most caches and suggested waypoints are in the checkers.
The caches themselves are various shapes and sizes. Some are our signature brand of custom container, others are more standard for purely practical hiding reasons. We'd politely ask you not to post spoilers of any kind, so as not to spoil the experience for the next cacher. Thank you.
Good luck and Bon Voyage!
Destination: Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic region. The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic sea. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Birger Jarl.
Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. It's an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europe's top ranking universities, and hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall.
The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is well known for its decoration of the stations; it has been called the longest art gallery in the world. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics.
The Puzzle
In Sweden, like many other countries around the world, crosswords are very popular as puzzles, but whereas the typical British crossword is noted for its black and white squares and numbered clues, in Sweden, they tend to fill more of the available space with words, and the clues go in the boxes next to the answers.
Below is a Swedish-style crossword for your enjoyment, and you'll see we've themed it on geocaching (of course!). Your task is to complete it, it's as straight-forward as that. If the clues are a little cryptic, blame it on Mr Beach_hut's evil mind! (and the fact that brevity was called for in fitting clues in the squares!)
Click on the picture below for a better view (may take a while to download)
Landing Instructions
You will see that some squares of the crossword have red shapes in. Convert the letter you wrote in there into a number in the usual fashion (A=1, B=2, C=3 etc), pair that number up with the letter in red in the corner of the square, and substitute the numbers in each pairing for the corresponding letters in the equation below.
N 52° AB.CDE W 000° FB.HJK
Tourist Tips
The cache is around 15-20 minutes from the suggested parking. (see waypoint in geochecker)
The cache is one of our trademark "unique" containers. No spoilers please - save the surprise for the next cacher.
Check-in Desk
(see what we did there?)
