From Holland 2 (Auckland) Traditional Geocache
From Holland 2 (Auckland)
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This cache is dedicated to the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a small country in Europe.
Some Dutch facts:
In 1602 the Dutch East India Company was established, and by the end of the 17th century Holland was one of the great sea and colonial powers of Europe.
The Netherlands is a constitutional monarchy with Queen Beatrix on the throne since 1980.
Dutch is spoken by 25 milion people world wide (and is the basis for Afrikaans)
Famous for cheese, windmills, tulips, wooden shoes (not we’re not all wearing them!)
A quarter of the Nertherlands is below sea level.
The Netherlands has still about 1,000 traditional working windmills.
Famous Dutch:
Abel Tasman (you all know who he is)
Rembrandt van Rijn and Vincent van Gogh (the painters)
Johan Cruyff (Dutch soccer player from the 70ties)
Paul Verhoeven (film director of Basic Instinct, Total Recall)
Famous Dutch products/companies:
Cheese (Gouda, Edam)
Heineken beer
Philips (invented the Compact Disk)
Shell and Unilever
The cache is a 1.2 ltr container with a log and a pen (orange) and placed in a park in line with the theme.
It also contains goodies.
This is a re-placement cache for From Holland but in a different location.
Please re-hide well.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Onfr bs gerr (abg na boivbhf bar)