Little Quest - Durham

Look how peaceful the river is

 Sunday 8th August 2010

Barnard Castle? ever heard of it? well to be honest we hadn't really heard too much about it. County Durham is not a county that we know too much about....having said that it does have the fantastic High Force as part of it. High Force linky poo County Durham takes its name from its famous city further north. But team Shiltonpig roll into town to find the little quest. This cache is a tell tale story to all would be cachers. We parked the car which said the cache was just a mere 0.24 miles away...

Mr Shiltonpigs trousers had shrunk in the wash

 we started following the compass and we got to a point where it said it was 230 feet away. We suddenly realised it was on the other side of the river...at first glance you would think we would be disappointed. But the only way to cross from where we could see was a quaint little bridge. Mid way on the bridge we took the first of he photos on this post. What a great site it actually turned out to be....even though we ended up walking far longer than we had intended. If you would like to know more about Barnard Castle then I suggest that you read this link here. 

Josh throwing stones again

I would think that team Shiltonpig picked the right time of day to come here, about 9am on a Sunday morning. The town hadn't woken up from the night before....nobody about and it was peaceful. The cache itself provides the best view of the ruined castle in the whole town. Not that too many people would know that judging by the fact the footpath to the cache is hardly used. This rates very highly in our little quest journey so far and rates very highly as a cache in its own rights. Josh loved this place as well, partly due to the fact there was water about. What is it about kids that as soon as they see water they want to jump right into it. (I would like to whole heartedly apologise for the poor formatting in this post...I wish Google would get it sorted)

The plants in the nearby field were huge and something out of the land of the lost...some might say that team Shiltonpig would fit into the land of the lost as well...and thats just our family that would say that!!! We have added another 45 miles to our grand journey so far which means that 874 miles have passed since we 1st set out in March to attempt our first Little Quest cache...and what a journey it has turned out to be. We are glad that one of the Little Quests have put a castle into the view...after all England is world famous for its castles!!

On the wasy back to the car it is also worth pointing out that Josh went on some swings and slides...his current favourite pastime at the moment....well that and pooing!

Look at the legs on that!

Josh looking at the croak croaks