When: Thursday April the 1st from 7pm to 9pm (maximum
reservations are for 2 hours) No joke!
Where: Vertigo 42
Champagne Bar, Tower 42 (formerly the Nat West Tower), 25 Broad
Street, London, EC2N 1HQ. I've booked a window area but this gives
us only 4 bar stools. First come first seated- other attendees will
have to stand & mingle.
What: A sophisticated gecaching gathering for a better
class of geocacher. If you plan to eat here, bring the more
resilient of your credit cards. There will be polite caching
chit-chat and swapping of TBs, geocoins and other traveller items
while admiring the views from the highest publicly accessible point
in London.
Please Note: The venue operates a minimum spend of
£10 per person for bookings up to 14. Above this, it rises to
an unacceptably -in my view- high £20 per head. If this is an
issue don't worry- you can still attend this event and get your
smiley by being outside the front entrance to Tower 42 between
6.30pm and 6.45pm on April the 1st for a 'flash-mob' element.
Dress Code: Smart - Casual. No shorts.
Important update 22/03/10: If anyone else would like to
attend I suggest you make a reservation big enough to put you in
the same area as the two other groups and invite other cachers to
join your booking, in much the same way as TurnerTribe kindly did.
I suspect the venue's pretty full by this stage though, so don't
hang about! As a reminder, if the venue does fill up and won't
accept any more bookings it may still be possible to attend if
someone else drops out so be sure to log your interest with a
note to start/join a 'waiting list'. Failing that, a
flash-mob element between 6.30pm and 6.45pm on the 1st of
April outside the main entrance to Tower 42 will ensure this event
remains 'open to all cachers'. Any questions? Please drop me an
email via my profile.
Why: Because it's an amazing location for any
get-together, and I love how caching is an excuse to do some random
stuff. Take my
GC1WD50 - Britain's Fourth Most Remote Event Cache (Jersey),
GC22370 - In The Unlikely Event... (Les Minquiers),
GC226KJ - The Hunting of the Sark! ,
GC229XC - Herm is where the heart is!,
GC229YY - Guernsey Gathering and
GC229YB - All the way to Alderney events for example; all
coming in June...
Who: Cachers! But no dogs (except assistance dogs) or
under 18s I'm afraid.
How: Nearest tube stations are Liverpool Street, Bank and
Moorgate, in that order. Then there are stairs (42nd floor
remember) or a couple of lifts- which you may recognise from Top
Gear's 'Truffle Race' from Italy, screened on the BBC (and Dave)
last year.
Note: You may regard this as a 3/5 if using the stairs ;)
(Difficulty level upped from 2 to 3 on March 10th to reflect my
personal experience of setting this event up! Oh, and for the fact
you're expected not to arrive in flip-flops with yesterday's dinner
down the front of you. See, I have met cachers in the wild
before, lol!)