Sunday saw 13 cars and approximately 60 people (and our 2 dogs) driving around Terreros and Águilas trying to find answers to a variety of clues and collect photos and articles on the list. A little inventiveness came in useful along the way.
We were the penultimate car to set off, so we were soon catching up with those already on route and could gain a little advantage from seeing where people were coming back from. Some of the answers could be found while driving by whilst for others we needed to park up and walk around (headless chickens came to mind a few times, believe me)
There was 1 very simple rule - we were not allowed back to any of our homes to retrieve any of the items. The items we needed to collect were: An item of ladies underwear, a restaurant menu, a safety device, a pocket size image of britain, a spanish Sunday newspaper, a beer mat with a date on it and a fire lighter.
We also needed photos of a unique living 'bird' (take note of the quotation marks!), a British licence plate, a team photo of us all drinking through straws from one glass (dogs were excluded 'cos they can't handle a straw) something with a girls name on it, a local town official, a stranger walking a dog and a stranger riding a bicycle.
We had a time limit of 3 hours and anyone back late would start of with a deduction of 6 points. Harsh, but hey, we had a halfway stop at a bar - without a time limit some maynever get around to leaving the halfway house.
We started off on a short trip along the coast and down one of the coastal tracks to the beach where we were instructed there was a secluded spot for us to remove an item of underwear. Lucy and I chatted about which if us would be the one to remove said garmet - I got the short straw so out of the car I went..........
No, that isn't my leg! 1st item collected.
Several clues later, having seen us at the beach a second time, in a rather nice public garden in Aguilas and having had a debate on who actually did paint the Mona Lisa, we found ourselves parked up at the marina in Aguilas counting painted fishes on a notice board, that was until we looked closer and saw that someone had already written on each of the fish as they'd counted them so we no longer needed to count all 44!
We finished the clues on the first set of sheets and headed for the bar in the main plaza for a well earned rest and a drink (don't forget the straws)
Halfway there.
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