Jolly Roger

AR Walk 5: Wendover village - 17 September 2014

We did this walk a while back now: sorry it's taken me so long to write it up!

One type of geocache that I really enjoy doing is a multicache - these take you on a journey as you gather information which leads to the final cache location. So on a Friday afternoon when I had two tired grumpy children (and was tired and grumpy myself) we escaped out to explore the village of Wendover which is one of the villages that the Aylesbury Ring footpath passes through. Ginger Nut and Pip were piled into the double buggy and off we went...

AR24 Mandarin - Roger of Wendover the Early Years is the 24th and last cache of the Mandarin section of the Aylesbury Ring geocaches and takes you round Wendover through the eyes of Pirate Roger who "...was an English chronicler who live in the 13th century. Little is known about him, but it is thought he was born in Wendover and later in his life became a monk at St Albans Abbey... It is almost certainly a little known fact (and overlooked by Wikipedia) that for a few years in his early days in Wendover, Roger was known as Jolly Roger and was a now long-forgotten pirate in his luxury river boat cruiser on the Wendover arm of the canal." (Quoted from www.geocaching.com)

Whether Roger was really a pirate or not, this was a lovely walk around one of my favourite villages! We collected all the information, but ran out of time to go to the final destination to collect the actual cache - that has to be left for another day!

Walk 5

Date: Wednesday 17 September 2014
From: Wharf Road
To: Budgens,
Distance: 1.3m
Total Ascent: 118ft
Route Description: Village
Duration: 1h
Ave Speed: 1.25mph
Weather: Sunny, 20oC
Region: Buckinghamshire
Walking With: Ginger Nut & Pip
Path: Aylesbury Ring

Map: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zbgVN-iW56BQ.kaNBoT9lLlXY