Towns beginning with "o"

What country are we in?

Sunday 29th May 2011

972 AD. That was quite some time ago, it was before the internet and we are not sure whether sliced bread was invented. But 94 years before the Battle of Hastings, Oundle was granted a market charter, something that the local council wants to shove in your face as you drive past the town sign. Quiz question (and without looking...and we will know whether you looked as this blog is now able to track what food you had for breakfast) How many towns (not cities, so forget Oxford) can you name in the UK beginning with the letter O.

St Peter?

Once you have counted them up, you are then allowed to click on this linky poo to find out the answers. If you got more than we did then you did very well indeed....so back to caching then. Oundle for such a small town has plenty of caches. They all seem to be of the nano variety in the main area. The town is a pretty little place, although they won't thank us for saying that nearby Stamford has the edge on it. But we would happily live in an area like this. First on the list was the gates micro cache. I am sure that the few geocachers that read this blog, will know that buildings close together can play havoc with your GPS. As a result it took us a while to find 

The Cotswolds?

the cache site....of course you may be thinking if the cache name is called "the gates", surely it can't have been that hard to find some gates. You will probably be right to tell you the truth, but hey all geocachers are allowed a blonde moment now and again. Mrs Shiltonpig was smug because she found this one. Its worth noting that this town supposedly is made up from some of the brick and stone that came from the demolished castle at Fotheringhay. As to how true this is we will never know, but it is pretty nice stone to tell you the truth. The next cache took us to the Ship Inn and down a dark alley. Perhaps its because Mr Shiltonpig has spent many

Town was empty, except Beans Cafe

an afternoon down a dark alley (that story is for another time!!) that he was able to quickly spot the cache at hand. After some rather strange looks from some passers by we carried on our way up the street to a church by a courthouse. Mrs Shiltonpig was still feeling smug after finding the hardest cache of the day so far. But the smile was wiped off her face as she failed to find the easiest cache of the day so far. Nevermind Mrs Shiltonpig...you can't win them all! We started walking back to the car, and passed the Beans cafe with what can only be described as half the town filling up the place. The rest of the town is deserted apart from here.

GPS hell around here

  In doing research for this blog, I came across this article about Oundle. I love the quote "the Cotswolds without the price tag". Its a great line and very true. It was time to get some lunch, Josh was getting hungry and so it seemed appropriate to leave the town and find somewhere more green to have lunch.