Caching and the search for a new GPS

Tuesday 17th November
We decided on a trip to Nottingham to have a look at new GPS’s. We caught the park and ride (£4 per car) and got to the town at about 11. We first found a micro cache at Fletchers gate and then followed the GPS past the station and towards "Nutts in Nott’s" cache. This had been a puzzle cache which had had interesting logs posted on the web site so we felt we had to give it a go. We ended up near Anchor Supplies in an industrial estate. We spotted the "Geocachers Welcome" sign so wandered in. It was an Army surplus store and was filled with ammo boxes, old bits of artillery and various other equipment. We knew we were looking for an ammo box but didn’t fancy searching through all the boxes on display. We wandered up and down for a while and then someone gave us a knowing grin. He pointed out the Geocaching sign on a shop door. We hadn’t thought that it would be inside the shop -being against geocaching rules. We went in and the assistants grinned and we soon spotted a small museum, where we found the correct ammo box. The shop owner came over and had quite a chat with us. He has become very interested in Geocaching recently and was pleased to meet so many people in the shop. We eventually got away and walked towards the Trent where we found another micro cache before heading back towards the city. Our last cache was by the station – there had been youths lurking when we had walked past earlier but they had now gone. However, just as we had retrieved the cache a transit van full of police turned up and parked opposite. We felt a bit suspicious relacing the cache under their gaze. We had some lunch in the Salutation (very uninspiring) and then went to Blacks where we found both the Dakota and Oregon GPS on display. John tried the Dakota but found that the compass was dificult to calibrate.The Oregon was nice, with a big screen and extra functions. Looks like his birthday present might be ordered on-line when we get home!