Geocaching Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/geocaching/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:21:40 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Geocaching Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/geocaching/ 32 32 2696646 Triple Treasure Hunting in Aberystwyth https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/12/triple-treasure-hunting/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/12/triple-treasure-hunting/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:19:38 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=23537 Morgan and I tried some Triple Treasure Hunting in Aberystwyth on Tuesday. Triple Treasure Hunting Our Triple Treasure Hunting included Geocaching Pokémon Hunting Searching for Isaac Sweet Shop tokens Isaac Sweet Shop Tokens Isaac’s, the locally run sweet shop in Aberystwyth have hidden a whole load of tokens around town for the 12 days of...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/05/bank-holiday-activities/feed/ 1 21828 En Route to The Lakes https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/04/en-route-lakes/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2016/04/en-route-lakes/#respond Fri, 08 Apr 2016 18:21:51 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=21511 At last, after a busy few weeks we were due for some rest and recuperation and the day had finally come for a trip to The Lakes. We couldn’t leave too early as we had phone calls to take, but we were on the road by 10:30 and apparently it would only take 4 hours...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/12/christmas-eve-activities/feed/ 0 20770 A Geological Souvenir https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/10/geological-souvenir/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/10/geological-souvenir/#respond Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:38:51 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20351 It was International Earth Cache Day on Sunday, so as geocachers and geologists we couldn’t really not do a geological based Earth Cache to celebrate. Fortunately there was an Earth Cache that we hadn’t done at Devil’s Bridge so we saved it up and headed out there on Sunday afternoon for International Earth Cache Day 2015....

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/10/geological-souvenir/feed/ 0 20351 Geocaching – Bank Holiday in the hills and more Records https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/09/geocaching-bank-holiday-in-the-hills-and-more-records/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/09/geocaching-bank-holiday-in-the-hills-and-more-records/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2015 05:45:54 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=20130 After my bank holiday morning swim from Aberystwyth to Clarach I headed home and gathered up Anna and Morgan so that we could head off to the hills around Lake Bala for some geocaching. The Hit List Morgan had spotted a little series of 12 caches based on the positions of a clock. They formed...

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