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Friday 9th March 2024
I had another visit to London with a list of caches planned and ending in Battersea. I walked down to Bank Station where I caught the Southbound Northern tube and surfaced at Kennington. I crossed the wet road and quickly found the ST at 0851. I jumped a bus down the Clapham Road to the Claylands Green trad and then another bus down to Stockwell. I had a bit of a walk down Jeffreys Road to the easy CM - Stockwell ~ Methodist trad. This is the first time I'd seen my surname in a road sign.😀
Just up the road was the very grimy Larkhall Park trad. I had noticed what appeared to be a cafe but it was also a launderette as well as an internet cafe.🤔 No hot food unfortunately so I made do with a very good coffee. I walked through the park and just in time a bus appeared to take me in the direction I wanted to go down the Wandsworth Road. I alighted at the tube station and walked round to Nethersford Road for the trad.
I was getting my money’s worth with my bus pass and had another hop on/hop off in Lavender Hill. I knew that there was an old 50s film called The Lavender Hill Mob but didn’t realise that it was actually a place. I quickly sorted out the CM ~ Battersea multi at 1030 and headed off to a Cafe Nero for brunch.
Suitably refreshed, I headed north towards the river dipping out at both CM Battersea ~ St Philip and the ST Queenstown Road trads. I had more luck at the ST Battersea Park multi though. I was very pleased to spot some art by the famous French street artist, Invader. By this time, it was starting to rain heavily and I was now head in into Battersea Park with no shelter.🥴
Luckily it didn’t rain for long and I plodded around the park visiting bases of the A walk in the park AL series including the Peace Pagoda. I found all of the fourteen strong Battersea Park series of trads and one multi. I seemed to be following in RamsPadge’s footsteps although I did bump in Proud Lioness formerly known as discodancingdiva at the penultimate cache, A Tall Fir. After saying our goodbyes, I headed up towards Albert Bridge.
I was hoping to jump a bus but I couldn’t see any steps so I hailed a cab to take me to my next port of call. Ein berühmter deutscher Besucher in London was a 3/1 mystery cache written in German about a Holbein painting which I solved all by myself. It took me a while to find but I was mightily pleased when I did. Here's a self portrait by Holbein.
I got myself over to Tube ST Pimlico for the mystery cache that I had solved a year or so ago and was rewarded with a wet sodden log sheet. I tried to get over to Millbank for the final base G’Day London AL series but I got caught up in a maze of gardens and dead-ends. I eventually reached the base so now I can work out the bonus.
It was time to head for home and I ended up on the Central Line. I alighted at Bank and detoured into Leadenhall Market for my first base of the Harry Potter in London 3 AL series.
2 Mystery 3 Multi 6 AdLab 18 Traditional
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