Geocaching Tourist - seeking local evangelists! :-)

[stenpils]

Hi All,

The following was inspired by a few threads on NW Caching, along the lines of "what's the caching like in...", and also inspired by the fact that I went off on a weekend break just recently and wanted to know a bit about the area I was heading to but didn't have a concise succinct collection of opinion to refer to...Subsequently I did some caching on the fly and ended up with a 100% DNF rate on day 1, and 2 caches in terrible weather on day 2. :-)

So, as a result I'd really love to hear from evangelists for their local caching areas (or areas they know well) who might like to submit a mini-caching-tourists-guide-to-the-locale to eventually provide a resource for "out of area" cacher to start their research on what not to miss.

For me researching where to go is good fun, so I'm not suggesting this to be spoon-feeding or removing that fun, but just to be a starter for 10. Who would want to miss the Isle-of-Wight equivalent of "Whitespace", or "The Sparrow Boys" (these are big hitters up north - insert your own area's notables here) because of not enough time to research. So just looking for 1-pager contributions to start with, see if theres any interest, or value in it.

The site's based around a blog, so it's interactive even after an article has been published on an area, e.g. the Northwich article I've done for illustration can then be added to via comments "Thanks, I followed the route it was great" or "You're talking Hogwash, don't miss out on CacheX!" or "Oooh, change this article to remove that cache mention - it's been archived".. etc etc.

Pls check out GeocacheTourist (I can't post links, "but there is a nice man who can"), it's in its infancy (being a few days old), already though we've had some great articles from Cumbria, and County Donegal (sounds fab!), and I've got a few more to get live in the next few days.

Anyway, thanks in advance for any feedback, contributions, or any submission of your thoughts!

Stenpils