Caching Tales

It was holiday time again. Our third this year, but who’s counting! With Covid restrictions lifted in the UK we could have perhaps ventured further afield but not wanting to sit in the confined space of a plane for hours with dozens of other people, we opted for another staycation, this time in Sommerset.   It has been about 14 years since I traversed the county’s tourist spots, so it was nice to return and see some of them again. This time we opted to stay in the slightly busier coastal town of Burnham-on-Sea, not somewhere I’d ever stayed before, but it was good to have a few more amenities on the doorstep as opposed to Brean where I’d stayed in my childhood.   On the way down we encountered a lot of traffic and crawled most the way down the M5. Hence, we decided to stop off at the Michaelwood services for some food and a cache, just a few miles from our destination. It was the first cache of the holiday and it didn’t take long to spot. The following day we headed out to one...

This week we almost go barking mad! Well, there were certainly a lot of dogs featuring in our weekend geocaching adventures.     First up, another great trip out to pick up caches on RYO62’s brilliant geo-art series ‘No Cheese Gromit’. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed doing this walk over several different days. Altogether, I bagged about 60 geocaches on this leg of the walk and met a couple of very chatty people along the way.     One lady actually cycled passed me and then turned around, came back and stopped alongside me. She had clearly not seen many people recently with all the lockdowns as she just didn’t stop talking!   She started by asking a few questions like have you lost something? What is geocaching etc etc. 10 questions turned to 50 and before I knew it, she was virtually telling me her entire life story!  In the end I had to politely encourage her to move on, otherwise I’d never have finished the walk before dusk.    As always, the finds in ...