Mrs Scothog: DISCUSSION NOTES:
Thanks to everyone who came and contributed to the discussions tonight! Particular thanks to the out-of-Edinburgh people who were able to add that perspective.
We thought about the kinds of places that we'd want to find out about in another city:
a) Natural places - hills, views, quiet places
b) "manmade" things - history, architecture, archaeology
c) "local" places - the things you never find out in a guidebook - quirky places etc
We thought about what kinds of caches we would like to find:
a) multis (short ones that don't take too long)
b) quality containers - "set with passion" - good descriptions, etc
c) straightforward ones - non-complicated English descriptions, quick finds if only in the city for a short time.
We also spoke about where there were, and were not, permissions in place for caches. Areas included Arthur's Seat, parks, cemeteries, Union Canal, Water of Leith. No go areas included Queen Street gardens and the Castle Rock. For more detail about these, please contact me or Haggis Hunter.
People then gave indications of what they were working on:
Morton is working on, and happy to help others with history caches,
I'm happy to help with earthcaches, Church Micros and am working on the challenge series on the Union Canal (and some new Wherigos too)
In terms of other comments, several short multis on the Royal Mile have been suggested - you can do all of them if you have time, but it's broken up for those who don't.
I hope this sums up our discussions tonight - please feel free to use this as inspiration for new caches in Edinburgh, or work with other people to produce them.
Archiving for tidiness - I hate seeing long-gone events still "active" :)