Caching Tales

We’ve had a fantastic year finding caches around the East of England, East Midlands and South West England plus further a field on the sunny isle of St Lucia. But with so many great series’, hides and inventive cache containers, which were the best?  After a lot of debating we came up with our top 10 caches of 2018 - those we found the most fun, inventive and memorable. So here they are:  1. Mission ET - Mystery (Ely, Cambs) CO: Shadyone44 and daniel1bg 2. If you go down to the woods tonight - Letterbox Nightcache (Northants) CO: MI 56 3. Qualibou Caldera - Drive-in volcano - Earthcache (St Lucia) CO: unoyt  4. Fairytale Fiasco - The Gingerbread House - Mystery ...and the other four caches in this series (Fens, Cambs) COs: Shadyone44 and MR11MCD 5. The Lost Treasure of Stanton - Wherigo (Suffolk) COs: RGarrod & Bambi 6. Ecole pour les chevaux - Multi (Newmarket, Suffolk) CO: Daxter2010 7. A Puzzling Pred...

I can hear the bells on Santa’s sleigh jingling as I write this week’s blog. Christmas not only means lots of nice food and presents, but also a few days off work in which to go caching. The week started on a chilly but dry day up in Norfolk. After our adventures a few weeks ago on the Shouldham Shoe Shine trail, this week we returned to the neighbouring village to complete Poshrule’s new Fincham Fuddle series.  As well as picking up all 25 caches in the series we also managed to grab a few extras along the way. And rescued a cute green monkey keyring from a very muddy puddle, who we’ll be turning into a TB soon! Parking up at the Village Hall we were soon off across the road to pick up our first cache, appropriately, the Village Hall cache. The pretty village sign was also a few feet away so we headed there to collect the necessary no.s and calculate the final, picking up the cache later in our walk. Soon we were heading up the high street to grab our firs...

Caching and blogging has rather gone out the window lately as winter bugs, DIY and turning the house into Santa’s grotto has taken over our lives. Yes, whilst I battled flu, closely followed by a rather bad head cold, that left me rasping and squeaking instead of speaking for three days, the other half decided to destroy the kitchen and light up every part of the house and garden with Xmas lights!  But, in between the chaos and carnage we have managed to grab a few caches including the brilliant new FF puzzle.  Yes FolkFen have been out and hidden another mystery cache, along with another cryptic cache page, this time near Fordham in Cambridgeshire. However, this was possibly my fastest solve ever of an FF puzzle. After scanning the page with its beautiful sketch, I soon spotted clue no.1 and after inputting that and something else into google I soon found what was needed. The hint helped secure the last bit and I quickly had some promising looking c...