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<title>Greyfriars Bobby Cache</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2005/10/05/greyfriarsBobby</biblioid>
<volumenum>8</volumenum>
<issuenum>127</issuenum>
<pubdate>2005-10-05T08:09:30-04:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date$</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2005</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
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<para>Thwarted on my first attempt by driving wind and rain, I was determined
to find a cache in Edinburgh before I left.</para>
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<dc:subject rdf:resource="http://norman.walsh.name/knows/taxonomy#Geocaching"/>
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<para xml:id="p1">I
<link xlink:href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ndw/49319568/">set out</link>
on Monday to find
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gchxmh">Crag
&amp; Tail</link>, but was thwarted by driving wind,
rain, and the fact that the castle was closed. Undaunted, I was
determined to find a cache in Edinburgh before I left.</para>

<para xml:id="p2">On Wednesday, I looked at
<link xlink:href="/googlemap/Buccleuch">the possible
caches</link>, ate my lunch quickly, and set out for
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcjktr">Greyfriars Bobby</link>.
<personname>
      <firstname>Andrew</firstname>
<surname role="suppress">Eisenberg</surname>
    </personname>,
one of my XSL/XML Query colleagues, is interested in geocaching, so we
went together.</para>

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<para xml:id="p3">It was a nice walk down to Greyfriars Kirk. I lead us a little
astray, but Andrew found the graveyard and we got near the cache
without any real difficulty.</para>

<para xml:id="p4">After a few minutes of searching, we found the cache.</para>

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<para xml:id="p5">But that's not the interesting part of the story. The interesting
part is that Andrew found <emphasis>a different cache</emphasis> that we
weren't looking for and that, as far as I can tell, isn't in
<link xlink:href="http://www.geocaching.com/">geocaching.com</link>.
</para>

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    <!--Whiskey Cache-->
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<para xml:id="p6">Way to go, Andrew!</para>

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