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Mesdames et Messieurs, sit yourselves down and prepare yourselves for a gastronomic treat of the finest culinary delights.
Our team of chefs have been trained in specialities from all over the world for your caching delectation!
We hope you will find many things that you will enjoy.
BON APPETIT!
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About this Series
Beachies' Bistro is a series of puzzle caches located in and around Peterborough with (if you haven't guessed already) a foodie theme. There are nine courses - see the menu below. Each course has a cache to find. In addition, there is a bonus cache ("The Bill"), which can be found using information located in all of the courses.
The puzzles are not meant to bemuse. We have pitched them with varying difficulties so that hopefully everyone can enjoy as much as possible of this series. The difficulty level, as you might expect, increases as you go through the meal. Some of the later, more difficult, puzzles have clues located in the geocheckers of earlier caches in the series; these are to assist you where needed, although all can be solved using the information on the cache page. (with the exception of the bonus, because the relevant information is contained within the caches in the series)
We have designed the series such that you can work out the puzzle elements at home before you leave (with the exception of the bonus), and pick up all of the physical caches in one day. Or you can do it in bite-size portions, it's up to you!
We would ask however that you do not leave any spoilers in your logs, even encrypted, including pictures. Please don't spoil the meal for future cachers!!
Please take either a notebook & pen or a camera phone with you so that you can take a record of the bonus information written in the caches.
The Entrée
How about Soup of the Day?
The Puzzle: "Number Soup"
Chef Alphonse is in the kitchen of Beachies' Bistro, preparing a batch of the soup of the day, Alphabet Soup. (oh yes, it's a fine dining establishment, all right!!) Only this particular batch is unusual, as it consists of numerals only, no letters. So it's a number soup really...
Like many good chefs, Alphonse always tastes the food as he goes along. Can you see what he's tasted? (click on each picture for a better view)
Finding this cache
Once you've worked out which bits of pasta-based loveliness have gone, you just need to plug the numbers into this equation to find the cache: N 52° AB.CDE' W 000° FG.HJK'.
Update 14/12/13 - the final location has been moved. The puzzle and geochecker are based on the original location, the new location can be found within the geochecker. (In other words, put in the old co-ords to receive the new ones)
"Tasting notes"
Please park considerately, safely and legally.
The final cache site is not suitable for wheelchair users I'm afraid.
Stealth will be required at final location at certain times.
We recommend you confine your search for the final cache to daylight hours.
Please bring your own pen.
And finally, the "check"...
