With the aim of starting the year as I mean to go on, I decided to get outside on New Year’s Day and go geocaching. Nothing too strenuous, just a walk around the Cliff Walk in Bray to tick off the new virtual cache, Bray Head [Bray to Greystones Walk] (GC8917D). I also took the… Read More Hello 2020: Walking in to the New Year | The Geocaching Junkie
Readers outside the UK may not have heard of The National Trust (NT), a conservation organisation founded in 1895 that works to protect and preserve places of historical importance. The NT promotes geocaching as an activity on their lands and either hides caches themselves, or works with local cachers to set up trails. Northern Ireland… Read More 8 National Trust Locations to go Geocaching in Northern Ireland | The Geocaching Junkie
For our annual mother-daughter weekend away, TheM0ther and I decided to stay a little closer to home this year and incorporate a weekend in Kilkenny with a stop-off at the New Year’s Resolution event in Tipperary. I have only visited Kilkenny once before over 10 years ago (pre-geocaching!) and I definitely didn’t explore enough of… Read More A Weekend in Kilkenny | The Geocaching Junkie
It was that time of year again when a plethora of geocachers from the Irish geocaching community (and beyond!) descended on a carefully chosen location to find some geocaches, have some craic and startle the locals! This year the chosen location was the picturesque Glengarra Wood, on the lower slopes of the Galtee Mountains in… Read More New Year’s Resolution Event 2018 in Glengarra Wood | The Geocaching Junkie
The thing about New Year’s Resolutions is, you can make big declarations and everyone around you is likely to forget by February and subsequently nobody will hold you accountable. In other words, it’s often easy to wriggle out of them. Not so when you publicise your intentions in a blog post. In January, I wrote… Read More August Hike: Great Sugar Loaf, County Wicklow | The Geocaching Junkie
Hailed as the most dramatic walk in Europe, The Gobbins coastal path at Islandmagee, County Antrim has been on my ‘must-do’ list ever since it was reopened in August 2015, after an almost six decade long closure. It was closed again in June 2016 due to increasing rock fall, but was partially opened in June… Read More The Gobbins Coastal Path: July Hike with a Difference | The Geocaching Junkie
At the start of June, I came across a Facebook post by The Wildlife Trusts about their 30 Days Wild campaign. Intrigued, I clicked in and soon found myself applying for a 30 Days Wild pack. The idea is to take time out of every day to soak up wildlife and take note of wild places wherever you… Read More Geocaching – 30 Days Wild | The Geocaching Junkie
Donegal has always been one of those counties that I heard was amazing, but it was never really on the top of my destination bucket list. I usually favoured going further afield – outside of Ireland – if I had a spare weekend. That all changed, of course, when I started geocaching! I have now… Read More Geocaching on the Inishowen Peninsula, Donegal | The Geocaching Junkie
Presenting the fifth instalment of my geocaching New Year’s resolution to go on at least one hike a month… although, disclaimer: this month felt more like a short uphill walk combined with a forest stroll than a proper hike! Scrabo Country Park Located near Newtownards, 10 miles east of Belfast, Scrabo Country Park encompasses Killynether Wood,… Read More May Hike: Scrabo Country Park, County Down | The Geocaching Junkie
Regular readers will be well aware of my bias concerning how amazing the Emerald Isle is. When I was younger, I used to wonder why many Americans I met outside of Ireland would delight when they heard I was Irish and tell me they’d always wanted to visit. It truly baffled me. It’s only in more recent years… Read More 16 Reasons to go Geocaching on the Emerald Isle | The Geocaching Junkie
