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Geocache: Carpool cache #2

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In the Netherlands it is really popular to use carpool parking, and that brings the great idea of placing geocaches in carpool parkings as well. These geocaches can be found in all different sizes, this time I'd like to share a bigger one next to a closed carpool parking place. Hidden under plants. We were on the way back from shopping in Germany when we stopped at this location, it seemed to be an easy one. The first surprise was that the carpool parking was there, but closed, so we had to park on the other side of the road in the parking of a new movie theather, which was of course paid, maybe that's why they closed the carpool parking? So we parked, then walked over. Not too easy to spot from a distance. When we started searching, it took a bit of a time, the security showed up. Don't ask what were they securing there, but he was not alone they were in two. So he comes and starts inteviewing my wife what are we doing there? She started to explain and he did n...

Geocache: Carpool cache

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Every country has its different quick to find cache type. In the Netherlands it is mostly the carpool caches. If you are on the way to some place and you want to get a quick hit, or just need some fun for the day you need to pull off the highways and find a carpool, most of them has a cache.  The hide at a carpool in the bicycle storage. What makes the carpool caches easy is mostly the fact that outside the peak hours there is no muggle at the locations, only some cars and bicycles parking, so you can search relaxed. The only problem you might run into if a car is parking on top of the geocache which we had ones, but lucky enough for us it was me parking on the cache. This find was not the easiest at first look, we searched all around the coordinates, tried to avoid what some dog left behind. The hint in Dutch even for a native speaker was not pointing at anything at all. After a few minutes we decided no other way but touching everything looking into any holes, rainpipes...