Lovely sunny, wet & windy bank holiday in Norwich!

We have just returned from a lovely 3 day break with Jessica in Norwich and what a mixture of weather we had. Beautifully sunny on Saturday, pouring rain on Sunday and gale force winds on Monday.

Despite this awful weather we manged to do 6 geocaches - 2 each day - which was not bad as we did not arrive in Norwich until 1.30 on Saturday. We were able to leave 5 travel bugs and geocoins, but only picked up one.

The first 2 were on the UEA campus, the first around the lake: The Ultimate Exciting Adventure (UEA) GCQA29. This one was really hard, we spent ages climbing through trees and through the undergrowth - sustaining loads of nettle stings. In the end Jess (who had been sat eating chocolate bisciuts whilst we foraged) found it right next to the path - a far distance away from the coordinates - but it turns out that it has been moved!

Jess was very pleased with herself as this was her very first geocache.

The second one was in the Yare woods on Campus: Yare, Yare, Yare! GC1AJMN and we found this one easily.
On Sunday the weather was so bad that we went into Norwich and hid from the rain in the shops. We left the children window shopping and dreaming of all the clothes they would love us to buy them, whilst Steven & I braved the outside to do a couple. We got absolutely drenched and even though there were more to do, we had to admit defeat to the weather and come home to a hot bath. The 2 we managed were in Chapelfield gardens: Peace Pole GCGZ1T and one near the cathedral: Tomb Raider 3 GCZE6Y.
On Sunday we drove to Holkham and did one in the woods next to the beach: Holkham Haul GC1984 - the children groaned when the GPS said it was 42 mins away from where we had parked - but it was a nice walk and we found it easily. We walked back along the beach - the gale force wind ripped up the sands so there was no sitting and admiring the view. Liam had the right idea having bought a blanket from the car to protect himself.




We then drove to Wells-next-the-sea for lunch and ate in an old fashioned cafe - I had mushroom soup and a roll and rhubard crumble and custard - it was delicious. We then left Liam and Jess to do the final geocache: The Noble House Cache GC1A1XW- as they were a bit fed up by this time so though it would buck them up a bit - it did and they found the area ok but - the cache was positioned in the middle of a busy road where 3 roads meet which Jessica thought was far too dangerous and she thought she was going to be left orphaned by the traffic as we found the cache - which made her all grumpy again - so I don't think we have converted her.