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The Merrydown Bureau of Experimental Travel is an orginisation committed to total and utter insane exploratration.

Sunday, 30 March 2008

Geocaching with the dead!!!!!!

When you need something to do on a sunny Sunday afternoon Geocaching is a good way to wile away the afternoon with some entertaining insanity. Basically you look on this website (http://www.geocaching.com/) and it tells you the location of caches is the area that you choose then you have to go and find it. It sound simple but it's not!!!!!!! You only get a grid reference or a GPS location and the cache(A box containing a log book and goodies that people leave to be found) is hidden. Anyway on with the story to read it you need to highlight it (It's hidden sothat if i describe where it is i don't ruin it for some)

A travel experiment by Tom and Kate We decided to visit "Dead centre of Rochdale" a cache located not 2miles from where we were sat watching "Malcolm in the Middle" we set off and had an uneventfull trip to the area. It was only when we started to draw close that we started to realise how aptly name this particular cache was....it's in the cemetery!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .....anyway we accidentally walked past the cemetery so we entered by an unconventional manne (we climbed over a wall and then through the bushes) we headed straight for the giant tree on the far south west of the cemetery, unfortually on the picture on google earth wads taken in the summer (there were no leaves on the tree when we got there) and the landcape looked a little different. So we went to tree that we thought it was and seqarched high and low around it but found nothing :0 so we wndered aropund the entire cemetary searching high and searching for the cach thinking that we had got the wrong tree but with no luck, we decided to head back looking depressed, which was rather more appropriate than the smiling and joking mood that we had been on in entering the cemetery. We decided to have one last look at the tree, kate climbed up and descovered that Dave would be famous and i checked inder the concrete at the base of the tree it was there all the time !!!!!!! very happy to have found it we wrote our message left a playing card with the blog address on (the MBET) calling card and took a Gorden the steam engine spinning top. If you read this because of finding the card please contact us and tell us and pass it on to another cache please, we are trying to send them as far as possible.

Hope you enjoyed our avdenture hopefully more to come.