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Can you work out where team Shiltonpig are?

Saturday May 1st 2010

3 Guesses as to where team Shiltonpig ended up today? Need a clue....well have a look at the photo to the left...still can't get it...well we suggest kindly that you need some serious professional help. Yup the birthplace of the bard himself...William Shakespeare. You may remember him from the pain and suffering he will have inflicted upon you at school. Lots of caches today, plus the added bonus of meeting and bumping into plenty of geocachers who were here for the event. Everyone in good spirits and good form. We covered off many areas

Stratford upon Beautiful

today, its hard to know where to begin. 1st up we started at the train station where we bumped into 2 geocaching families, we laughed as we had thought they were passengers from a train. Stratford is in full flower at the moment, and pretty much anywhere where you go its pretty at this time of year. Caches were placed at pretty much all the usual tourist spots, near Shakespeares birthplace, near where he was buried, by the newly refurbished canal area...and even on a roundabout? The toughest challenge of the day for us was a cache called "End of the Line", this entailed you collecting data from a signpost and then visiting a railway line. We looked

Josh the centre of the universe

everywhere for it, and Josh was crying which made the experience not great....Mr Shiltonpig had, had enough and then Mrs Shiltonpig piped up that she had found it....yay...she deserved an ice cream for that one (she didn't get one, just deserved one!!). We then made our way to some new caches that were released at the event and we bumped into 2 teams of geocachers "Finstall" and "Peatie" and we joined them as we did 4 caches in a small circuit on the outskirts of the town centre. Pleased to meet you all. It was nice for a change to do some caches with others, a new 1st for team Shiltonpig.

Erm? Wasn't Josh supposed to be in this pic too?

Another cache in the canal area was already a replacement cache by the time we got there, and it had only been released that day! (Makes this cache look normal lol). Mr Shiltonpig grew up not too far from this area when he was a lad (must have been just a few months ago!!) and so had visited Stratford more times than he had eaten baked potatoes....but the next set of caches took them to the old town and many lovely houses they had never seen before, so that was a nice experience to discover something new in an area well known. Highlight of the day for Mr Shiltonpig at least. Joshs highlight came moments later when we went to McDonalds and those tempting happy meals.

A great man was born near here...and Shakespeare was too!

Shortly after we bumped into "Bikeboyroy" and "Hobster", a friendly pair of geocachers, who gave us a few tips. We must have walked miles and miles today...we were shattered by the time we got to the ridiculously priced car park (£10 we paid...£10!!!). Stratford seems to have a thing for magnetic micros...we found then on info boards, road signs, behind benches, electric boxes...but we had a good day and lots of time to enjoy the sites. So a full packed day today, new icons, new caches, another Little Quest done....righto off home for a curry.