Distance - 5 Miles
Geocaches - 20 and 2 Adventure Lab Caches
Local cache trails are running out but South Gloucestershire's Thornbury looks a hot bed of geocaching activity.
Three goals for today:
Goal 1: A trail of 20 Traditional Geocaches based on Premier League Teams
A decent ramble from the Munday Playing Fields, where muggle activity forced me into doing the round in reverse. Well maintained caches, each with a Panini Sticker of the appropriate club on the log book. I would like to say I made clean sweep of it but 1xDNF, Ixfail to solve a puzzle cache and 1x "Multi Did Not Attempt as I was probably going in the wrong direction" meant it was a Vauxhall Conference effort from Mappiman.
Geocaching Terrain |
With the Baggies languishing, I have to bring you a picture of enemy insignia |
Goal 2: Adventure Lab Caches
The town has two ALC's - one explaining the history and one explaining the lost pubs. I do love a bit of pub archaeology, so this held more than the usual level of interest. The sites were sequential and more or less shared between the two ALCs - so they were run simultaneously. Took some effort in flipping between puzzles in the App but I got there. Importantly, without bumping into other pedestrians or getting run over.
Centre of Thornbury - with a Dead Pub to the left - The White Hart now the Natwest |
History Today |
Goal 3: The Anchor Inn - Good Beer Guide Tick #652
On the road out of town was the sole Good Beer Guide Tick in the 2022 version of the Bible. A food led pub, located on the way back to the motorway.
Good Choice of Proper Job, Courage Directors and a chosen Landlord.
A fellow pub ticker tweeted the pet hates for pubs that he was experiencing in Portsmouth. These included prams blocking access, random piles of logs and cushions. I replied that I had all of these, plus a special table reserved for the sale of cake.
Still, a fine fishfinger sandwich and a good Timothy Taylor meant it wasn't all bad.
The Greek themed specials menu - complete with Greek flag bunting - looked interesting.
I'm kicking myself now that I didn't check for gyros.
Licenced from 1695 |
Kids... Prams... Logs.... Cake Table! |
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