Little Quest - Lancashire

Road of Death

 Saturday 24th July 2010

So the holiday began in true form with a whistle stop tour to the county of Lancashire....now I think its fair to say that this particular county is known for a fait few things....hot pots...flat caps and of course Coronation Street. We were disappointed that we didn't see any of these things....Vera Duckworth didn't appear to welcome us to the cache...just what is wrong with geocaching these days when a celebrity isn't there to meet and greet you? tut tut tut. Anyway what did greet us was one of the worst roads in the whole of England, I kid you not that

Mrs Shiltonpig and Josh and a cache

 if you were to see this particular road you would have though an earthquake would have hit it. Never the less team Shiltonpig with Mr Shiltonpigs expert driving soon encountered and succeeded in parking like no one has ever before. It may be worth pointing out that this was a private road and we were not supposed to park on it...but seeing as Mr Shiltonpig can't read or write then we ignored it. The cache itself was at the top of a hill...surprise surprise.....having said that it was about 3/4s of the way up on what was an amazingly hot sunny day. The path is clouded by trees and then all of a sudden the trees open up and you can see the most

If you look closely you can see a field

 amazing view. In fact it was so amazing that even though we were very near the town of Skelmersdale (said in a very very scouse accent) we could see the Blackpool tower over 20-25 miles away. This was a very welcome surprise and for once Mr Shiltonpig without any sarcasm will admit that for 24 hours this went to the top of his favourite Little Quest caches...and certainly a contender for the years top 10. Team Shiltonpig like a little quest cache that tries to either find a really beautiful spot in the county or tries to reflect an entire county in one spot. This one succeeds in both in our humble shiltonpig opinion!

Have you seen this photo already?

 There was no one about and even Josh joined in the start to the holiday by not (yes I repeat not) doing a poo while we went for the cache. We admired the view and sadly did not have a picnic to eat (though it was about 9.15am) so could not take in the views any longer. A quick walk down the hill saw us complete another nearby cache which had nothing whatsoever to do with green crayons....Josh saw one of his favourite things at the moment...a digger and was trying his best to do a "terrible two" moment and try and get his poor parents to give in and let him have a go. We opted on the side of caution this time but who knows you may yet see

What county are we in again?

Josh driving down the road on one of those things yet! A great cache to start the journey off and even though no one was waiting for us at the bottom to reward us with a hot pot of stew we will forgive them that. So it just leaves us to say that so far on our little quest journies we have travelled a whopping 528 miles so far which is from Derbyshire to Frankfurt one way....which is where our travel bug is at the moment. Anyway thats all for now, granted not the best bit in our blog but hopefully you feel value for money (i.e. that we are not currently charging you to read this...)