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Euro Twit Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/14/2014
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Percy has gone missing! Can you find him? He can't have gone too far. All I've got to go on are these tweets from his friends.

There is no need to visit the stated co-ordinates, Percy is long gone. He'll most likely be up in a tree somewhere in London.


Percy's friends have all left different parts of London for holidays in different nesting sites in different countries across Europe. Percy's friends all enjoy different foods because they're all different bird breeds and will be spending their holidays doing different activites. If you can work out who's who, you should be able to find where Percy has gone.

NEST BREED FOOD ACTIVITY HOMETOWN
Chimney (1) Finch (1) Bread (1) Bird Baths (1) Barking (1)
Hedge (2) Mallard (2) Cake (2) Collecting Twigs (2) Camden (2)
House (3) Starling (3) Cookies (3) Pecking Tourists (3) Ealing (3)
Lake (4) Swallow (4) Croissants (4) Stealing Shiny Objects (4) Hounslow (4)
Straw (5) Woodpecker (5) Scones (5) Squawking (5) Kensington (5)

CANARY ISLANDS SPAIN SWITZERLAND CZECH REPUBLIC BULGARIA
A F K P U
B G L Q V
C H M R W
D I N S X
E J O T Y
AxBxCxDxE FxGxHxIxJ KxLxMxNxO PxQxRxSxT UxVxWxXxY


Northing is 51 (0.027xBLUE)+(0.028xGREEN)+(0.027xYELLOW)+(0.023xORANGE)+(0.0235xRED)
Westing is 0 (0.003xBLUE)+(0.002xGREEN)+(0.002xYELLOW)+(0.004xORANGE)+(0.0045xRED)

If the table above is confusing, you can now use the handy online Euro Twit checker

Thanks to IceColdUK for beta testing the puzzle




If you calculated the old co-ordinates, entering these on geocheck will provide you the new co-ordinates. Only the final calculation has changed.

For the purposes of this puzzle, please consider Spain and the Canaries as separate countries. "Neighbouring" countries are the next country east/west in the puzzle so Spain is neighbouring Canary Island and Switzerland, Czech Republic is neighbouring Switzerland and Bulgaira.

Congrats to Pja_cz for FTF and King of the Pundits for STF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ivfvoyr sebz gur tebhaq, 5z sebz gur raq bs gur envyvatf

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)