Night Geocaching!

Last week I stayed overnight in York, one of my favourite cities. Travelling after work and meeting colleagues for dinner meant I’d a limited window to find any  geocaches. But throwing caution to the wind after I’d said farewell to my colleagues, I decided to re-visit a cache in a residential area that had given me some grief in the past. With hostile residents behind closed curtains, I furtled about in several wrong places for a short time before following the GPS and finding the cache in a very obvious but public place. Despite my denials, I am obviously addicted!

Night caching!

The Pavement

York is an ancient city with lingering echoes of very different times, when life was shorter and more brutal than today. As I’m still enough of an infrequent visitor to York, whenever I visit, I try to discover something new. I don’t always succeed as often, my time is limited but on Thursday a little celebration was in order as I found a plaque related to “The Pavement, created as early as 1378.  Even though I’d passed the wall where it’s situated many times, and geocaching has allegedly honed my observational skills, I’d never spotted it before. I was delighted!

York!

Real life has tended to get in the way of blogging recently which is always sad.  With Mr Glis and I both travelling to the exotic locations of Nottingham, Chorley and Crewe, our jet set life style is one to be envied...not! But, there are compensations when there’s a visit to York, one of my favourite cities. My most recent overnight stay meant I had even more time to explore some of the hidden corners of the city, thanks to geocaching.  Although my hotel room overlooked Dick Turpin’s grave, thankfully, I didn’t receive any ghostly visitations from the dastardly highwayman.

York

The white magnesian limestone walls of York were glittering like a diamond tiara in the brilliant sunshine last week.  York is one of my favourite cities so it’s never a hardship to visit, even for work. My professional life being dominated by teleconference calls, I was delighted to find, thanks to geocaching, a delightful  little haven where I could sit and enjoy the glorious weather, Blackberry earphones in situ while dialled into a call.  To any curious onlooker, I no doubt appeared to be mumbling away  to myself but from my perspective, it was a most enjoyable outdoor office alternative

The Power of Nature

I paid a fleeting visit to York, one of my favourite cities yesterday, and was shocked to see the extent of the River Ouse in spate.  It must have been at least 20 feet higher than normal and river side properties were completely flooded. It was evident that the clean-up exercise will take some time and although the city is used to flooding, it’s still very sad to witness the extensive damage caused. As a society we may have access to billion pounds worth of technology to help us anticipate weather but nothing can control the awesome power of nature