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Utrecht CARW2020 Letterbox Hybrid

Hidden : 1/24/2020
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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1.  This CARW2020 cache will be published about 6pm on Thursday, February 20, 2020.
2.  This cache has been placed for the CARW event with the intention that it not be located prior to 9:00 a.m. Saturday February 22, 2020.  The caches for the CARW event are released early so that the geocaching community has an opportunity to plan their routes and strategies prior to the event start.
3.  Should you hunt and find this cache before the event start, it will not count for the event, and FTF points are only valid as of 9AM February 22nd.

This is a letterbox hybrid cache. It is also a washed out peanut butter container that has a number of toys inside for trade for the little ones we sometimes bring with us on our adventures. Please trade fairly. In the the bag that holds the log book you will also find a stamp which we kindly ask you to leave in the cache.

In the spirit of around the world in 7 days we decided to hide a series of letterbox hybrid caches honouring an interesting or signficant city in the world that starts with each letter of the alphabet as we found a stamp set which had stamps from A-Z.

Utrecht (/ˈjuːtrɛkt/ YOO-trektalso UK/juːˈtrɛxt/ yoo-TREKHT,[6][7] Dutch: [ˈytrɛxt] (About this soundlisten)) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Netherlands; it had a population of 357,179 as of 2019.

Utrecht's ancient city centre features many buildings and structures, several dating as far back as the High Middle Ages. It has been the religious centre of the Netherlands since the 8th century. It lost the status of prince-bishopric but remains the main religious centre in the country. Utrecht was the most important city in the Netherlands until the Dutch Golden Age, when it was surpassed by Amsterdam as the country's cultural centre and most populous city.

Utrecht is host to Utrecht University, the largest university in the Netherlands, as well as several other institutions of higher education. Due to its central position within the country, it is an important transport hub for both rail and road transport; the busiest train station in the Netherlands, Utrecht Centraal, is in the city of Utrecht. It has the second highest number of cultural events in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam.[9] In 2012, Lonely Planet included Utrecht in the top 10 of the world's unsung places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht

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