Little Quest - North Yorkshire

Greasy Joes Cafe

 Saturday August 7th 2010

So it is probably time for Mr Shiltonpig to have a bit of a rant....so team Shiltonpig roll into North Yorkshire...the first of the 4 yorkshire little quests to get. In our humble opinon North Yorkshire may be known for many things....the moors, Whitby perhaps? but come on lets face it everyone knows it for Heartbeat. The TV show that is stuck in the 1960s. So let me get this straight...Heartbeat started in 1992 with Nick Berry? Do you remember him? so that means that 18 years has passed in the town of Aidensfield (which is actually Pickering), so even

Have you seen Heather? We can't find her?

if the programme had started in 1960, it should now be 1978...but somehow it is still the 1960s???Perhaps this is some strange time wormhole, where people have to relive and relive events??? Anyway I suppose that I should get to the story of the cache....so we pulled up at the car park, and to our great surprise there was a greasy spoon van/cafe parked there. It was a welcome sight...especially as we ordered the last 2 bacon baps...most annoying for the person behind us in the queue....(but why would a greasy spoon cafe run out of bacon...but that question will have to be left unanswered, like all

Josh and his new found friend

big questions in the universe). It had started to rain, and lets face it this summer, that is hardly big news. But the shower stopped after we had the roll in our bellies. The possibility of rain gave Josh the cahnce to explore something new....the umbrella, lets face it he is going to get plenty of chances to become acquaninted with them over the next few years. But in the meantime he dragged a brolly that was bigger than him all the way to the cache. This meant that a very easy 0.22 mile walk suddenly became a long hike, as every 2 minutes we had to stop and wait for Josh to keep up with us. In the end the very

Still can't find Heather?

impatient Mr Shiltonpig just carried him on his shoulders. The moorland was absolutely beautiful and you could see the coast so easily including several large ships on the sea. Always a plus in our humble opinion. When we found the cache which was very easy, adn looked inside there was a log book but no co-ordinates. Aaargh! On closer inspection it appears that another cacher had replaced the logbook....we took a photo of us and the cache to prove we had been there. At the time of writing you will be relieved to know that we were emailed the co-ordinates!!

Josh prepares to attack

So another little quest and another thumbs up from team Shiltonpig. It has a very barren feel to it this cache...and sums up what most people think of, when they think of North Yorkshire...this now means on our little quest trek around England we have so far travelled 829 miles. Wow thats a very long way do you not think?

Police would like to speak to these 2 suspicious people