There is a set of caches to the west of Milton Keynes, the Flags of all Nations series, 249 puzzle caches, all easy to solve as they are based on the letters in the name of the country whose flag is shown in the description, you just have to work out whose flag it is (and I have never heard of some of the countries/states that are in the 249). They are divided into 5 loops basically by continent, and we had determined to do some the Sunday after the Mini Geocoin Fair.

We couldn’t do them all in a day, so we decided upon the African loop (with a couple of caches from other loops where they met the Africa loop.

23rd June 2019 – Care in the community on tour invites you. GC897GD – cache #4760
First of all we held an event – coffee and cakes in a local garden centre tea room. I’m on the photograph – I must have been there

23rd June 2019 – AAA 3 GC7BCDJ – cache #4761
Most of CITCOT were camping at nearby Pear Tree Farm, so while waiting for them to get their collective acts together I wandered down the road for this cache

23rd June 2019 – #003 Flags of All Nations GC6CCV7 – cache #4762
On the first Sunday of Summer CITCOT went caching…. around Africa…
We parked at Thornborough Village hall and started with Number 3, as that is the logical place to start

23rd June 2019 – #004 Flags of All Nations GC7YZQT – cache #4763
From here on I mainly did copy and paste logs because the caches were much of a muchness so there was nothing special to write about most of them… so I will just post the pictures as there is nothing much else to say

23rd June 2019 – #005 Flags of All Nations GC6CGKN – cache #4764

23rd June 2019 – #006 Flags of All Nations GC6CGMZ – cache #4765

23rd June 2019 – #007 Flags of All Nations GC6CFEK – cache #4766

23rd June 2019 – #008 Flags of All Nations GC5HMTK – cache #4767

23rd June 2019 – #009 Flags of All Nations GC6CGVP – cache #4768

23rd June 2019 – #010 Flags of All Nations GC6CFFR – cache #4769

23rd June 2019 – #054 Flags of All Nations GC7Z4G7 – cache #4770
A quick detour from the route between 10 and 11 to get this one

23rd June 2019 – #011 Flags of All Nations GC7YZWW – cache #4771

23rd June 2019 – #012 Flags of All Nations GC7Z0DK – cache #4772

23rd June 2019 – #013 Flags of All Nations GC7Z0EE – cache #4773

23rd June 2019 – #014 Flags of All Nations GC7Z0F3 – cache #4774

23rd June 2019 – #015 Flags of All Nations GC7Z0GR – cache #4775

23rd June 2019 – #016 Flags of All Nations GC7Z0HE – cache #4776

23rd June 2019 – #017 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1J0 – cache #4777

23rd June 2019 – #069 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1GF – cache #4778
We took a little detour to get three nearby caches (69, 68 & 70)

23rd June 2019 – #068 Flags of All Nations GC6C9K2 – cache #4779

23rd June 2019 – #070 Flags of All Nations GC6C9GJ – cache #4780
There was a Summer Fayre going on at the School so Coinkezza grabbed the cache from under the eyes of the Army Cadets who were marshalling the car park… then we walked down the road and sat under the bridge to eat some lunch, then returned up the road back to continue our African oddysey at number 18 – returning the cache on the way

23rd June 2019 – #018 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1JD – cache #4781

23rd June 2019 – #019 Flags of All Nations GC7X1JX – cache #4782

23rd June 2019 – #020 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1K4 – cache #4783

23rd June 2019 – #067 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1GF – cache #4784
As we passed this bit of the Caribbean we grabbed the cache

23rd June 2019 – #021 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1ZE – cache #4785
What Coinezza said in her log for this cache was don’t go caching in shorts and short socks in fields full of nettles and thistles !

23rd June 2019 – #022 Flags of All Nations GC7Z1ZT – cache #4786

23rd June 2019 – #023 Flags of All Nations GC7Z203 – cache #4787

23rd June 2019 – #024 Flags of All Nations GC7Z20E – cache #4788

23rd June 2019 – #025 Flags of All Nations GC7Z27Z – cache #4789

23rd June 2019 – #026 Flags of All Nations GC7Z28B – cache #4790

23rd June 2019 – #027 Flags of All Nations GC7Z28Z – cache #4791

23rd June 2019 – #028 Flags of All Nations GC7Z29B – cache #4792

23rd June 2019 – #029 Flags of All Nations GC7Z309 – cache #4793

23rd June 2019 – #030 Flags of All Nations GC7Z32B – cache #4794

23rd June 2019 – #031 Flags of All Nations GC7Z331 – cache #4795

23rd June 2019 – #032 Flags of All Nations GC7Z33J – cache #4796

23rd June 2019 – #033 Flags of All Nations GC7Z3E3 – cache #4797

23rd June 2019 – #034 Flags of All Nations GC7Z3DW – cache #4798

23rd June 2019 – #195 Flags of All Nations GC6CGP7 – cache #4799
A bit of the Middle East that we had to pass on the way

23rd June 2019 – #035 Flags of All Nations GC7Z3DP – cache #4800

23rd June 2019 – #036 Flags of All Nations GC7Z3DH – cache #4801

23rd June 2019 – #037 Flags of All Nations GC7Z3DB – cache #4802

23rd June 2019 – #038 Flags of All Nations GC6CCTM – cache #4803

23rd June 2019 – #039 Flags of All Nations GC6T2TZ – cache #4804

23rd June 2019 – #040 Flags of All Nations GC6T2V8 – cache #4805

23rd June 2019 – #041 Flags of All Nations GC6T2V9 – cache #4806

23rd June 2019 – #042 Flags of All Nations GC6CCTT – cache #4807

23rd June 2019 – #043 Flags of All Nations GC6CGEB – cache #4808

23rd June 2019 – #044 Flags of All Nations GC6CDF2 – cache #4809
At this one I split from the group as I still had a three and a half hour drive home (that turned into a four and a half hour one, but that’s another story) so rather than turn towards number 45 and do the inner loop I headed for number 1 and my car

23rd June 2019 – #001 Flags of All Nations GC6CDEK – cache #4810

23rd June 2019 – #002 Flags of All Nations GC6CJGV – cache #4811
Last of the flags for me on this visit – and as I haven’t been to Milton Keynes since 1986 I don’t know when, if ever I will get back to do some more of them !

23rd June 2019 – St MAry’s Thornborough GC37NFQ – cache #4812
We were parked at the village hall next to the church so it would have been a pity to miss this nearby cache out