Lincolnshire Villages - Cache and Dash

Two rascals peeping through

Friday May 14th 2010

Thank goodness for Travelodge...in a world where the price of everything is going up, they seem to be the only thing where the price is going down. This is good news for team Shiltonpig as they embark on another crazy weekend away...this time to the city of Lincoln. Today after a very quick drive to Lincoln, we arrive ready for some serious caching. There were 2 main series that we attempted today...the first was a very small section of the UKs largest cache series....200 caches across 193 miles from Skegness to Ness. Wow that would be some

Can you spot team Shiltonpig?

serious eat into some petrol, but not to worrry for us, we were only to do 5. We however were going to tackle a series called "Lincolnshire Villages", these are best done as a drive series, taking you around some of the most bendy roads you will ever come across when not on a F1 circuit. Try doing 60 mph on one of these roads and you will soon find yourself calling the AA. Its very flat around here, and lots and lots of rural countryside and farms for miles around. Some of the caches we spotted without even leaving the car (don't worry we did sign the logbook). Some however were clever little hides meaning we had to look and look all around.

Scrambled,poached or fried?

One of the great things we found near the first couple of caches was a birds nest full of 12 eggs, whats strange is that we have been unable to identify what they are....we will keep looking. In addition we saw 2 Hares leaping around a nearby field. Something which is pretty rare, these days for us people that live in what is known as urban developments. We have never really done this type of caching before, as we usually are getting our arms and hands scratched in thorns out walking the fields, and was nice to try something different. Josh was having a mixed day today, he has a few little snuffles but by the end of the day was getting a little bit of

Don't drink and drive!

cabin fever. The usual happened halfway through the caches, Josh needed the toilet and so did a few others in the team. But hey you don't read this blog to here about our toilet habits? (or do you????) We won't tell you what happened...we will leave it up to our readers very vivid imagination. 20 caches later and we finsihed off the series....we had collected 10 numbers along the way and we were soon on our way to the bonus cache. A very cleverly hidden bonus cache which had taken us to almost every village in Lincolnshire....all we needed was a farmer chewing hay in a field and it would have finished

Team Shilton"pig"

off the day. However we had one final surprise as we came across a field with pigs in....and they had rings in their noses...what next pigs in space? Josh loves pigs and will happily snort till the cows come home....and when they come home he will moo as well. We enjoyed the day...very unusual not to have to walk for a change. However we finished the day finding the most amount of caches in a day we have ever done.....plus we crossed over the 400 mark as well. So there was only one way we could celebrate...off to the pub for some gammon...sorry pigs!!