In the end I decided that the only way to be sure was to go an hour earlier, the 10:05 bus to Leeds, and if that blobbed then the 10:20 bus to Menston for the train… It is ridiculous that a) there is so little public transport, and b) you can’t trust the timetables will be kept to, to the extent that you have to plan on arriving over an hour early to make sure you get to the main station in time for your train.

In the end everything was on time, so I arrived in Leeds with an hour to kill, well best do a set of Labs then

27th April 2023 – Briggate – Arcades and Alleyways Lab Cache – Ivanhoe Clock – cache #6207
This was the most obvious set to do, a walk down the road parallel to that I would have rushed down had the bus been late… and the first five of what I hoped would be 120 ish for the weekend

27th April 2023 – Briggate – Arcades and Alleyways Lab Cache – Leeds City Varieties – cache #6208

27th April 2023 – Briggate – Arcades and Alleyways Lab Cache – Ship Inn – cache #6209

27th April 2023 – Briggate – Arcades and Alleyways Lab Cache – The Pack Horse – cache #6210

27th April 2023 – Briggate – Arcades and Alleyways Lab Cache – Time Ball Building – cache #6211

Then I went to the station and waited for my train…
I duly arrived in that London at 2:45, and as I was in Kings Cross decided to start with the nearest caches… the Labs at Kings Cross and St Pancras

27th April 2023 – Harry Potter’s London 1 ⚡ Lab Cache – Platform 9¾ – cache #6212
A long queue of people waiting to take their photograph at Harry Potter’s platform

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – King’s Cross Lab Cache – The Refurbishment – cache #6213

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – King’s Cross Lab Cache – Sir Nigel Gresley ( 1876 – 1941 ) – cache #6214

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – King’s Cross Lab Cache – The Architect of the Station – cache #6215
I didn’t find this place, just got near enough to open the geofence and googled the answer

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – St Pancras International Lab Cache – East Entrance – cache #6216

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – St Pancras International Lab Cache – The Saviour of the Station – cache #6217

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – St Pancras International Lab Cache – The Ironwork – cache #6218

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – St Pancras International Lab Cache – The Meeting Place – cache #6219

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – St Pancras International Lab Cache – HS1 – cache #6220

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – St Pancras International AL Bonus – GC9F6B5 – cache #6221
A walk outside the station in the rain… no problem finding the cache, I had worked out the coords and the hiding place once near the GZ was obvious

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – King’s Cross Lab Cache – Memorial to the Fire of 1987 – cache #6222
This one I couldn’t find either… at least I was looking for a monument to the victims of the Kings Cross fire that had two plaques, an upper and a lower… and I found one of them but I couldn’t get it to accept the answer in any format I could think of… so in the end I gave up and headed for my Hotel, once in the hotel I did some googling and found there were two memorials, both with a higher and a lower plaque, and I had been at the wrong one… so I found the answer on line and completed the Lab

27th April 2023 – SideTracked – King’s Cross Lab Cache – Station Poetry – cache #6223
This was another I couldn’t answer straight away at the station, as it needed you to google the answer, which I did, in my hotel room

Once I had unpacked a bit and had a cup of tea I had to decide what to do with the evening, when we had come down to that London in ’21 we had had to miss out on one Lab cache as it was part of a sequential Harry Potter set, the start of the set wasn’t that far away so I decided to head over that way and find that set of Lab caches in the correct order… getting other caches along the way, the first being just across the road from the hotel

27th April 2023 – I am Sherlocked Lab Cache – St Bartholomew’s Hospital – cache #6224

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 1) Lab Cache – St Bartholomew the Great – cache #6225
I detoured my route to take me past any Lab cache vaguely in the right direction

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 1) Lab Cache – The Barbers’ Physic Garden – cache #6226

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 1) Lab Cache – The Barbican Water Gardens – cache #6227

27th April 2023 – Spitalfields: ‘the cradle of migration’ Lab Cache – Sandys Row Synagogue – cache #6228

27th April 2023 – The Hunt for Harry Potter Lab Cache – Diagon Alley – cache #6229
Eventually I got to the first of the Harry Potter set that I had come this was to find,

then from Dragon Alley, I set off for the Leaky Cauldron, but first I had to finish the set of Spitalfields Labs that I had started

27th April 2023 – Spitalfields: ‘the cradle of migration’ Lab Cache – Jewish Soup Kitchen – cache #6230

27th April 2023 – Spitalfields: ‘the cradle of migration’ Lab Cache – Fashion Street – cache #6231

27th April 2023 – Spitalfields: ‘the cradle of migration’ Lab Cache – Brick Lane Jamme Masjid – cache #6232

27th April 2023 – Spitalfields: ‘the cradle of migration’ Lab Cache – The Museum of Immigration and Diversity – cache #6233

27th April 2023 – Welcome to London Liverpool Street – GC9P5KX – cache #6234
By this time it was just gone 8:00pm and I was a little hungry, so I stopped off at McDonalds for a bit to eat, then went and sat on a vacant bench staring at the memorial, read it, got interested enough by it to look up what it was all about, and then post it to my Facebook…
Only after that did I look at the geocaching map, see there was this virtual cache nearby and read the description to find that I was already there, with the answer

27th April 2023 – City Prayer Lab Cache – St. Andrew Undershaft – cache #6235

27th April 2023 – City Prayer Lab Cache – St Helens – cache #6236

27th April 2023 – City Prayer Lab Cache – St Peter-upon-Cornhill – cache #6237
(No this isn’t a picture I took on the night, it was pouring with rain and there were loads of drunken people about… so I rushed off to the next in Leadenhall Market)

27th April 2023 – The Hunt for Harry Potter Lab Cache – The Leaky Cauldron – cache #6238
The Leaky Cauldron… stage 2 of The Harry Potter hunt that brought me to this part of London. There are several bars in Leadenhall Market and there were loads of people stood outside drinking, it was incredibly loud… and it was only a Thursday night, what it is like on a wet Friday night I dread to think

27th April 2023 – The Mercers’ Maiden Lab Cache – Corbet Court – cache #6239

27th April 2023 – The Mercers’ Maiden Lab Cache – Royal Exchange Plaza – cache #6240

27th April 2023 – London’s Lost Rivers Lab Cache – River Walbrook: Outlet – cache #6241
I had now got down to the river, so walked along it towards the Millennium Bridge

27th April 2023 – MMMonument – GCHC6H – cache #6242
A virtual on a glass sculpture, not easy to see the answer in the dark and rain but I got there in the end

27th April 2023 – Church Micro 7456. .. Blackfriars-St Andrew – GC5Q7E4 – cache #6243
This was a cache I had looked at while at home, I haven’t been to the church – in fact I don’t know where the church actually is, but from the pictures on the cache page and the hint I could work out exactly where the cache is hidden…

27th April 2023 – Harry Potter’s London 1 ⚡ Lab Cache – Millenium Bridge – cache #6244
The Millennium Bridge was flattened by the Death Eaters in the Deathly Hallows film

27th April 2023 – The Hunt for Harry Potter Lab Cache – Half-Blood Prince – cache #6245
The third of the Hunt for Harry Potter Labs

27th April 2023 – Views of St Paul’s – GC8GBRH – cache #6246
This was another of the caches I had looked at prior to going to London, and another that I solved by looking at the pictures on the cache page, I could see that it was near the Fire Fighters Memorial and the hint then told me exactly where it was

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 2) Lab Cache – The Goldsmiths’ Garden – cache #6247
It was getting late now so I headed back to the Hotel, but there were a few more Lab locations on the way back

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 2) Lab Cache – St Mary Staining – cache #6248

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 2) Lab Cache – Noble Street Garden – cache #6249

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 1) Lab Cache – Postman’s Park – cache #6250

27th April 2023 – Pocket Park Perambulation (Part 1) Lab Cache – Christchurch Greyfriars Garden – cache #6251

45 caches, a good start towards my expectation of 120 for the weekend.
One thing I had been concerned about was whether I was going to be able to walk around all weekend without my leg giving me issues, first day I was okay after I had got walking and had got ‘warmed up’ in the end on Thursday I did 28,500 steps, 13.9 miles, and felt okay, how I would go on the next morning I didn’t know.