A M U - Die drei Ratten

Zooming all over London collecting travel Covid tests. There’s a run on them with Christmas and Omicron fast approaching. Quick stop for you at Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal Football Club. A new green dot appeared there recently and I wanted that cleaned up. 🥅

Tonight I took you to an event on top of the Marble Arch Mound, a temporary lump of dirt and scaffolding next to Marble Arch. What an eyesore. It has been dubbed “London’s Worst Tourist Attraction”. The cost was almost £6 million. Hard to believe someone agreed to build it. It originally had an entry fee but was so catastrophically bad that it had to be made free entry, but we had a fun time anyway. 💩

Headed west out of Lyme Regis today, first to the Ware Cliffs for some fossil hunting - lots of ammonites. Then we went up and along the South West Coast Path through an area called the Undercliff which is a biologically and geologically unique area. Finished my time in Lyme Regis with some local gin tastings and then had a fiasco getting home due to the points being damaged in the recent storm. Still some snow on the ground in places. 🦕

Over the past three years, I’ve been dipping in and out of the Magnificent Journey geocache which involved contacting cachers in certain spots around the world. They had to locate the next set of coordinates for me.

I found people who were my real life friends, others who’d moved my Travelbugs, some through word of mouth, two by looking at local events, and the rest by checking COs of local caches. We’ve gone through pandemics, lockdowns, olympics, roadworks that destroyed a cache, Earthquakes, and heart break.

Today, I took you to the magnificent Jurassic Coast to find the final cache and complete the journey. The day was glorious and the hiking was great. I love being on the South West Coast Path. What a perfect ending. Looking forward to meeting two of my team members shortly (fingers crossed). 🌍

Another day, another geocaching event. We are very social here in London. Supposedly the Twickenham pub where the event was held is ‘the most famous rugby pub in the world’. Never heard of it but then I’m no rugby fan. Whatever….🏉