The Terreros Treasure Hunt (Part 1)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 5:25 PM
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 may never get around to leaving the halfway house.
Full story (well of the first half) at http://relocatetospain.blogspot.com/