We’d decided to go for lunch in the cafe at the top of the Old Granary In Battlesbridge where I had held a very successful event last year.

One of my Christmas presents last year was a session on a Segway. I’d had a go on one some months before and enjoyed the experience so I was very pleased to have another go. I finally got around to booking it and the nearest venue was in Hainault Country Park.

It was Day 4 of the streak and I need a quick cache to keep in the running.

I have been closing in on the magical 1000 finds and I was hoping for the milestone to be a biggie but unfortunately, I needed buddies for the one that I had in mind because it was dangerous. I had to settle for a day out in Hertfordshire and here’s how it went.

As predicted yesterday, this was an ultra quick find and the streak was into its second day.😀 1 Traditional #9992

Unexpectedly, Groundspeak issued an official souvenir for a week log streak. Just one cache a day would earn the souvenir and I reckoned that there were enough unfound caches locally to make it an easy proposition.

As a result of the 1972 Local Government Act, a number of the traditional English counties were lost. Counties such as Rutland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Huntingdonshire lost their identity. So when my wife booked a last minute hotel in St Ives, in the former Huntingdonshire, I was all for it.

40 #9985

Today is International Geocaching Day so I needed a cache to get the official souvenir. I checked on nearby unfound caches and came up with Raise the Flag, a newish trad over by Noak Bridge.

Today was just going to be a gentle drive around the Suffolk and Norfolk border picking up Series caches.