Walking At Sandringham

At the start of autumn we went orienteering in the woods at Sandringham. We have the O map thanks to a friend in the Uniformed Services faculty at college, so I picked eight points for us to find and off we went.

We did enjoy the map-reading, but for me the afternoon turned into a nature walk, marvelling at the fabulous forestry.

Sam believed that this tree was probably a teleporter to another world. It didn't whisk him away though, thankfully.

Sandringham's a beautiful place. Mind you, the Queen's garden isn't going to have an old washing machine and a dismantled motorbike in it, is it?

If you follow in our footsteps we recommend the muffins in the cafe. Delicious!

Orienteering In The Park

I'd been looking around for a suitable orienteering race for us to take part in for quite a while - so to hear that there was one happening in The Walks was very cool, if not a little spooky. So off we went.



Sam likes maps, and is becoming quite good at using a road atlas. A sport that combines maps with charging round the great outdoors has got to be a winner. Norfolk Orienteering Club organised a "Try Orienteering" event that sounded just the job.

We chose to do an "orange" course, which is very easy but a decent length, and Sam loved the whole thing. We found 20 of the 21 map references (known as controls), and the 21st had been stolen from its tree, and although worn out by the end, the little star had a great time and has asked when we're going orienteering again.

Sam finished fourth on the Orange course in a time of 33:52.

You can find the full results here: Walks-Result

And Norfolk Orienterring Club live here: Norfolk_Orienteers