I had a reasonable
night's sleep, but woke to find the CPAP machine was blowing air out
of my mouth. That was a rather strange experience. After a quick
brekkie I loaded the last of the bits and bobs into the car and drove
to Tesco for a sandwich for lunch. From there I set the sat-nav to
Paddock Wood and drove straight into a traffic jam where I then
waited (whilst my piss boiled) for an hour and a half.
And so the the Hop Farm
at Paddock Wood for the Kent Mega - a weekend of geocaching
activities. The Hop Farm is a huge place, and some of the local
cachers had arrived last night and set up camp. Being given
instructions of where to find them I thought I'd soon be in the right
place. In retrospect we'd set up just a little too far away from
everyone else on the site. But as the idea was for the Kent cachers
to be together I just went with the flow.
I arrived at 10am to find
everyone else was still in bed. It didn't take too long to have camp
set up, and after a quick sandwich for lunch the rain started. Just
drizzle on and off, but enough to be a pain.
As the afternoon wore on
so more Kent cachers arrived to join our camp. And one or two others
joined in as well. I found myself chatting with a couple of new
friends, and the three of us made our way to the pub where there was
to be a formal meet-up geo-event. On the way we met a lady from
Germany who was over for the weekend, and we chatted with her for a
little while.
"er indoors TM"
and Gordon Tracy arrived, and we made our way back to camp for a spot
of tea and a beer or two. And as the beer flowed we decided that we
were "camping" - "tenting" being
little more than cottaging with canvas. And then we played cards;
forfeits involving eating a paper bag.
The evening became rather
vague at that point...
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