Little Quest - Northumberland

Barrasford Park

 Thursday August 5th 2010

Wow...2 Little Quests in the same day...we were on a roll so we were! After completing the more urban little quest in Tyne and Wear later that morning we travelled 30 odd miles to the north west and found ourselves in Northumberland. This now means we have travelled 748 miles in order to get just 11 little quest caches so far....plus to be honest there is heated debate in the team Shiltonpig household as to which little quests are the best ones. We actually are that sad that we rank in a league table. At the end after we have completed all 48 of them we

Remote Northumberland

 will share that with you....anyway onto Northumberland. Mr Shiltonpig has a confession to make after many many years of his favourite county being Devon (partly due to those amazing tors in Dartmoor, cream teas and happy childhood memories) it has now been knocked off the top by this amazing county Northumberland. It has pretty much everything you could possibly want....if you could buy shares in a county...I would own them all...if I was on commission I would clearly be earning loads. It has it all amazing beaches, history coming out of its ears (does a county have ears????) and finally moorland and lots of Hadrians

2 suspicious characters...

wall. The Little Quest cache was located in Barrasford Park, which was very very quiet and a rather unusual as its seems nobody has walked down this footpath for ages...and perhaps the only ones that do are the people who come for this Little Quest. Its hard to describe it...but here you go, a quarry is in the distant, there is moorland all around and there is a small woodland around. The cache is down a very grassy path...and Josh enjoyed running through the long grass. To be honest this cache was nice and easy to find...and that is a welcome feeling. There is nothing worse than travelling a long long way to find those all

Need to move the camera nearer I think

 important co-ordinates inside the cache only to find that you can't find them. Not sure that this represents the best that Northumberland can offer...try the Bamburgh 360 cache further north which is truly amazing. This cache however is nowhere near the worse of the little quests and Mr Shiltonpig loved the remote feeling of the cache that some of the others haven't done so far...and so a thumbs up from this small band of travellers...so if you find yourself up here, you could do worse than to come here!

The self timer button strikes again...