Geocaching

After using our services, what will you do with all your new-found free time?

Going for a walk with family and friends on a sunny day is a lovely thing to do. Combine it with a good pub lunch, and it’s practically perfect. But do you know what is even better? Adding a treasure hunt.

I don’t know about you, but one of our Yopalets LOVE treasure hunts. She’s 34, and her mum still does an easter egg hunt for her and her sister. She enjoys the hunt more than the chocolate at the end, and she really likes chocolate!

Have you heard of Geocaching? Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location. It’s an activity you can do with all the family.

Our Yopalet discovered geocaching several years ago and uses the printable maps from the geocaching website. Nowadays there are apps available for GPS-enabled smart phones and there are literally hundreds of thousands of caches hidden all over the world.

Some of her favourite geocaches are along the canals in Leamington Spa and Warwick - a perfect place to combine a walk, a treasure hunt, a bit of gongoozling (watching of canal boats) and a nice place to stop for lunch.

A 5-mile walk from Radford Road near Leamington, along the canal, will take you past no less than 14 geocaches! If you’re not a regular walker, or you have children with you, that might be a bit ambitious, as you probably have to walk back (unless you’re travelling on a canal boat!).

If you don’t want to do that much walking, why not park at the bottom of Hatton Locks and walk up? There is loads to see. It’s a lovely walk of about 2 miles (in each direction) with 7 ‘caches’ along the way. There are a few places to stop for a bite to eat and plenty of places you can stop to watch the world go by.

Our top tip though would be to walk from central Leamington up to the top of Hatton Locks (about 5 miles) collecting up to 16 caches on the way - stop for lunch at the very friendly canal cafe up there, where you will have a ringside view of the boats chugging up and down through the locks, then stroll back down the hill and jump on a train from Warwick Parkway back to Leamington Spa. In fact, we can’t think of a nicer way to spend a day off - exercise, treasure hunting and a good lunch. Fantastic!

What will you do with the spare time you get from outsourcing your time-consuming office tasks to us?