Today we decided to do a few driveby caches as we weren’t up for any long walks.
1st up was LQ:North Yorkshire – How Now Birk Brow nice little walk and took some hunting to find. Left Engineer at altitude.
Then we drove over to The Toy Man which was a nice easy Multi-cache, So it was over to moors to Danby Beacon. We didn’t know this place existed and has a superb viewpoint dating back to the time of the Stone Age. Saw a wonderful thunderstorm over the hills and was moving towards us rather quickly, so quickly worked out the multi location and nabbed the cache – dropped off #062 Racetrack Zac’s Dodge Viper
Headed over to Danby to grab what ended up being the last 2 of the day Hitting the high note and The Moors Centre – children only!
1 DNF was Gateway to God’s Country – Great Fryupdale, I think we walked all over where it was but no joy
Took a day off work and decide to head to the plot for 4-5 hours. Oh My God…. How many weeds were there? Removed the fleece from the brasicas and knee deep in weeds. Weeds all over the onions/shallots. Weeds all over the peas/beans/in fact everything!!
Well I filled 2 dalek compost bins full off weeds and I feel like I have done a decent days work for a change 
Also decided to test 1 Charlotte potato plant and got a lovely portion of them for dinner tonight, not a slug in sight.
So to add to the 1st real harvest of the year were – broad beans, broccoli, winter onions and a nice punnet of strawberries.
Some pretty poor photos of the plot.
Well we decided to say sod it to money, work and head to Paris for a wonderful 5 day/night jaunt. During this time we decided to do our 1st Geocaching in a new country. Well 1 became 2 and 2 became 11. They took us to some brilliant places in Paris we wouldn’t normally visit i.e. Parc des buttes Chaumont and Saint-Pierre de Montmartre church.
Day 1 was a cache free zone, well we did arrive at 3pm so day 2 we found 2 caches. I Love You ! which was in a lovely little park in Montmartre. Then we found Calvaire / Calvary which was in the grounds of church in Montmartre near Basilique du sacré coeur. We headed to the Basilique for a wander as it poured down last time we were there. Some great views from up there.
sacre coeur panorama
Day 3
Today was the day we walked up the Eiffel Tower which was fun for me since I hate heights but the views were fantastic. Before that we found Champ de Mars by night: Wall of Peace which was in the form of a rock and well hidden. Then we climed the Eiffel tower, then time to drop off the da Vinci Geocoin #1 which started off in Canada on 20th July 2007 and wanted to arrive in Paris – perfect. It was placed in Trocadero (Paris) and we took Laphro’s Single Malt Whisky Collection -Laphroaig-. As we were heading off to an outdoor market we stumbled across Liberty’s Flame . End of caching for the day and we then took a picnic with wine to have that night sat under Notre Dame and at the edge of the Seine.
Eiffel Tower panorama
Eiffel Tower panorama2
Day 4
We went to Sainte-Chapelle and on the way we bagged Pom, pom, pidou which was a DNF 2 days before. After Saint-Chapelle we had a wander over the the Louvre and found the following caches Dhû-n-Nûn at the pyramid and Who is She? (Paris)
Day 5
Today was a visit to Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Last time was on a rather wet New Years day, so was nice to wander about in the sun and to see the graves of Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Oscar Wilde, etc. Then we we found A la mémoire des communards which was a toughie to find and had to come back to it as people were sitting on a bench right near the cache location. A rather spooky wall where the cache was, had what looked like someone holding back the spirits…. Next up was over to Parc de Belleville which was a good find without being spotted by the many people right near the cache location. Took Racetrack Zac’s Dodge Viper and left the recently found Laphro’s Single Malt Whisky Collection -Laphroaig- Then for out last cache of the holiday we went to Le parc des buttes-chaumont, which was a fantastic park in Paris and would never have come here if it wasn’t for the Earth Cache here – Le gypse de Paris – Gypsum of Paris. This had a cave with a waterfall into it.
Parc de Belleville panorama
