Where: Overlooking Castle Stalker, seen as Castle Aaaagh! (home of the Holy Grail) in a certain Monty Python film from 1975. There's ample parking down this little lane, where it becomes a disused railway line.
When: 11.00-11.30am on Monday, July 20th 2015.
What: A quick, painless cache meet, complete with swapping caching travel items, tall tales of caching valour - and running away - and the chance to reenact your favourite scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. "What, the curtains?" "Vast... Tracts of land" "Bad Zoot! Naughty Zoot!" "'Tis a silly place." "Ni!" And of course, a chance to play Sir Not Appearing In This Film if you'd rather.
Why: Because, along with a cave above Loch Tay and Doune Castle, this is a key filming location for the 1975 epic, Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I visited the event location in 2011 and looked across the waters with envious eyes and since I've a chance to go in this year - the 40th anniversary of the film - well, who could resist? Perhaps Spiney Norman, but I can't think of anyone else.
For your information only: The castle is open in the morning (from 8.30am) for brave souls to visit (at a cost, and pre-booked) if you're interested, but this cache meet is totally free to attend and open to all cachers, be they Silly English K-nigits, French or Tim the Enchanter... ("What an ecentric performance.")
Look! What does it say? What language is that? Brother Maynard, you're our scholar. It is Aramaic! Of course. Joseph of Arimathea! -Of course. -What does it say? It reads, "Here may be found... "...the last words of Joseph of Arimathea: "'He who is valiant and pure of spirit... "'...may find the Holy Grail... "'...in the Castle of Aaargh."' What? "The Castle of Aaargh." What is that? He must have died while carving it. -Oh come on! -That's what it says. Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve 'Aaargh.' He'd just say it. -That's what's carved in the rock. -Perhaps he was dictating. -Oh shut up! -Does it say anything else? -No! Just 'Aaargh.' Aaargh. Do you suppose he meant the Camargue? -Where's that? -ln France, I think. -lsn't there a St. Aaargh's in Cornwall? -No, that's St. Ives. Oh yes. St. Iiiiiives. Oooooh! No, 'Aaargh.' At the back of the throat. No, Ooooh, in surprise and alarm! -You mean a sort of a "Ah!" -Yes, that's right. My God! It's the Legendary Black Beast of Aaargh! That's it! Run away! Run away! Keep running... We've lost him. V/O: As the horrendous Black Beast lunged forward... ...escape for Arthur and his knights seemed hopeless. When, suddenly, the animator suffered a fatal heart attack. The cartoon peril was no more. The quest for the Holy Grail could continue...
There are threads about my July 2015 events on the UK Groundspeak and GAGB forums.
Companion Events in July:
Saturday 11th, GC3TPPN - Yet Another Meet @ The Old Forge, Inverie Knoydart.
Saturday 18th, GC5T16J - 100 Not Out/Britain's 9th Most Remote Event (Mull).
Monday 20th, GC5TGXW - The Castle Aaargh! Your Quest is at an End - HERE!
Tuesday 21st, GC5N6R0 - Scotland's Most Southerly Event.
Wednesday 22nd, GC5TJ3T - Deeper Underground (Cumbria)