Holandska cache / The Dutch cache Mystery Cache

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drastak: Tuhle cache jsem mel vzdycky rad, protoze mi pripominala vsechny ty pekne chvile, ktere jsem v Holandsku zazil ...

Diky vsem kacerum za navstevu a pekne logy :)

(zamackavam slzu)

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Hidden : 3/2/2008
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Vzhledem k tomu, jak moc nesnasim cache typu micro, jsem se rozhodl, ze take musim nejakou opravdu malou zalozit :).

Na tomto miste cache nehledejte, jedna se pouze o zacatek ulice Holandske. Tato nove budovana ulice vede celym Spielberk Office Centrem, ktere vyviji firma CTP Invest.


Abyste cache nasli, budete muset odpovedet na nasledujici otazky:
  1. V severni casti Holandska byla mezi roky 1927 a 1933 postavena obri hraz 32km dlouha, ktera prehradila Zuider Zee - melky zaliv Severniho more. Vzniklo tak nejvetsi jezero v Holandsku a jeden z nejvyznamnejsich zdroju pitne vody v zemi. Hraz je vysoka 7.5 metru a vede pres ni ctyrproudova silnice spojujici Den Oever a vesnicku Zurich, cyklostezka i stezka pro pesi.

    Pocet samohlasek v nazvu teto hraze = A
     
  2. Na severu Holandska lezi Zapadofriske ostrovy z nichz 5 nejvetsich je stabilne obydleno. Krajina na kazdem z nich ma sva specifika - piscite plaze, prirodni rezervace, duny lehce porostle travinami, rybarske vesnicky i ticha samota. Hlavne v lete jsou vyuzivany pro kratsi i dlouhodobe dovolene. Spojeni na ostrovy zajistuji trajekty. Pro rozlusteni teto cache nas zajima nejvetsi a zaroven nejzapadnejsi obydleny ostrov. Uprostred jeho jmena se nachazi rimska cislice.

    Hodnota teto cislice = B
     
  3. Jedna z nejhezcich ZOOlogickych zahrad v Holandsku se nachazi v Amsterdamu. Tato nejstarsi ZOO v Holandsku lezici blizko Amsterdamske Central Station nabizi nejen zvirata, ale navstevnici mohou zavitat take do planetaria a geologickeho a zoologickeho muzea. Pokud vsak jdete do tohoto naucneho parku pouze za zviraty, nabidne vam novy pavilon motylu, morsky svet, insektarium a take krasne upraveny pavilon s terarii. Sledovat krmeni aligatoru a gavialu byl opravdu skvely zazitek. Pro dalsi indicii potrebujete zjisti puvodni trislovny nazev teto ZOO (aktualni nazev - "Artis" - je druhym slovem stareho nazvu)

    Pocet pismen tohoto nazvu = C

     
  4. V minulem stoleti doslo v Holandsku k obrim zaplavam. Velka cast provincie Zeeland byla zatopena uplne. Pod vodou skoncila oblast o plose 175 000 hektaru. Cast krajiny se docasne promenila v baziny.

    Posledni dve cifry letopoctu, kdy se stala tato katastrofa = D

     
  5. Po vyse zminenych zaplavach bylo rozhodnuto o vybudovani serie gigantickych del, ktera by mela zamezit dalsimu opakovani tak rozsahlych povodni. Prvni cast projektu byla dokoncena uz 5 let po zaplavach, posledni z 13 casti az v roce 1997. Nazev celeho projektu obsahuje pismeno recke abecedy.

    Poradi tohoto pismena v recke abecede = E

     
  6. Nejvetsi z del tohoto projektu je Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier). Stavba byla pomerne narocna, protoze bylo treba upravit piscite morske dno pro sloupy hraze, kterych je 65 a byly staveny na sousi. Ke stavbe slouzilo nekolik lodi/plovoucich pontonu, ktere nesly potrebne technicke vybaveni. Polypropylenove matrice, ktere byly pouzity v zakladech, byly vyrobeny v tovarne specialne postavene pro tento ucel. Behem dlouhe vystavby teto zvlastni prehrady byl vybudovan i umely ostrov. Ten nese stejne jmeno jako zabavni park, ktery se jedne strane hraze nachazi.

    Pocet pismen nazvu tohoto ostrova / zabavniho parku = F

     
  7. Mestu Utrecht dominuje vez, ktera byla oddelena od hlavni lodi chramu v 17. stoleti behem tornada, ktere se prehnalo Utrechtem. Behem sezony je mozno vystoupit az na vrchol veze a ziskat tak nadherny rozhled po dalekem okoli. Na vezi je take umistena virtual cache se stejnym jmenem jako je jmeno veze.
    Pozor!: Cache byla ownery nedavno prejmenovana. Nazev veze se ukryva ve druhem slove cache, takze pocitejte pismena pouze ve druhem slove.

    Pocet pismen jmena veze = G

     
  8. Typickymi produkty, ktere jsou s Holandskem spjaty, jsou keramika, syry a pivo. Jakozto Cesi, zustaneme u posledniho z vyse jmenovanych ;). Pouze nekolik pivovaru v Holandsku a Belgii ma vysadu oznacovat pivo, ktere vari, jako "trapisticke". Jedna se o piva, ktera v minulosti varili mnisi v klasterech a dokonce dondes musi pri vyrobe tohoto piva mnisi spolupracovat. Mezi tyto pivovary patri napriklad Orval, Westmalle nebo jediny Holandsky trapisticky zastupce La Trappe.

    Pocet Holandskych a Belgickych pivovaru, ktere muzou pouzivat "Authentic Trappist Product" logo = H
    Pozor! V poslednich letech pribylo nekolik novych pivovaru, ktere mohou toto logo pouzivat. Nezapomente zapocitat 1 holandsky pivovar, ktery pribyl na prelomu let 2013 a 2014.

     
A B C D E F G H
               

Finalni souradnice: N49° P.Q E016° X.Y
P = F + G - A
Q = (D + C) * B + H * F + C * B - F - 35
X = D - C + F + E - B - G
Y = H * D - B - C - F - 58


Upozorneni:
  1. v cachi neni tuzka, vezmete si ji s sebou
  2. vsude kolem se pohybuji hromady office-mudlu, pocinejte si velice opatrne behem vlastniho hledani i logovani (zvlaste v pracovnich hodinach)



I really hate micro caches. Therefore I decided to create one extremely small cache by my own :)

The cache is not placed on this coordinates as it's only the beggining of Holandska street. This street is under construction right now and it should lead accross the new Spielberg office centre developed by CTP Invest.

To find the cache you have to answer following questions releated to Netherlands:
  1. A giant 32 kilometers long dike was build in the northern part of Netherlands. It dammed off Zuider Zee - the sanbank inlet of the North See. The largest fresh water lake and one of the biggest sources of drinking water in Netherland was found. The dike is 7.5 metre high and the four-way highway leads on the top of it, together with a bikeway and a way for walkers.

    Number of vowels in the name of the dike = A
     
  2. There're West Frisian Islands located in the north of Netherlands. Five of them are permanently inhabited. The countryside is very defferent on each of them - sand beaches, wildlife sanctuaries, dunes barely covered with gras, fishermen willages and hermitage as well. All these islands are the turistic centres for short but also long-term hollidays. The ferries are used for the trasport to and from the islands. You need to find the biggest and the most western inhabited island. There is a roman number in the middle of its name.

    The value of this number = B
     
  3. You can find one of the nicest Dutch ZOOs in Amsterdam. It's also the oldest ZOO in Netherlands and it's placed near the Amsterdam Central Station. You can find not only cages with animals but also planetarium and geological and zoological musem there. If you want to visit the ZOO because of animals, it can offer you the new butterfly pavilon, seaworld, insectarium and a very nice pavilon with tarariums. It was a great experience to wach the feeding of alligators and gavials there. You need to find the original title of the ZOO to solve the puzzle (the actual title - "Artis" - is the second part of the old title).

    The number of letters of this title = C
     
  4. There were big floods in the middle of the last century in Holland. The area about 175 000 hectars big was changed into the dead world in one night. Big part of the country was turned to swamps.

    Last two numbers of the year whan this disaster happened = D
     
  5. The giant set of projects was preapared to build after aforementioned floods to prevent other disasters like this. The first part of the project was finished 5 years after the floods, the last 13th in 1997. The name of the project includes one letter from the Greek alphabet.

    The place of this letter in the Greek alphabet = E
     
  6. The biggest from these thirteen projects is Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier). The developing of this project was extremely hard since it the sand sea-bed should be prepared for the 65 piers build separately in a dock. A few specialized building ships and pontoons were used to carry the needed technological equipment during. Polypropylene mattresses were used in the foundations. They were made at a factory that had been specifically build for they production. The artificial island was build during the storm surge barrier developing. It has the same name like the amusement water park that you can find on the one side of the dike.

    The number of letters of this two-words-long name = F
     
  7. A big cathedral tower dominates the city of Utrecht. The tower was separated from the rest of the cathedral during a tornado in the 17th century. It's possible to visit the tower, climb to the top and watch the complete Utrecht and surounding countryside from there. You can also log a virtual cache with the carrying the same name as the tower when you climb up to the top.
    Note: The cache has been renamed recently so now the cache name contains two words. Please count letters only in the second word of the cache name!

    Number of letters in the tower name = G
     
  8. Ceramic, cheese and beer are some of the typical products connected with Netherlads. As a Czech citizen I'll stay with the last mentioned possibility - i.e. beer. There are only a few breweries in Belgium and Netherlands which can mark their beer as "Trapistic beer". These beers were brewed by monks inside monasteries in the past and even now the monks have to help in brewing process to follow the rules of trapistic beers. To name some of the trapistic breweries - Orval is probably the most famous, followed by Westmalle and the only Dutch trapist brewery La Trappe

    Number of Dutch and Belgian breweries which can use "Authentic Trappist Product" logo = H
    Note that several new breweries got the right to use the logo in last few years! So don't forget to count one new Dutch brewery that was listed at the end of 2013 / beginning of 2014!
     
A B C D E F G H
               

Final coordinates: N49° P.Q E016° X.Y
P = F + G - A
Q = (D + C) * B + H * F + C * B - F - 35
X = D - C + F + E - B - G
Y = H * D - B - C - F - 58


Warning:
  1. There is no pencil inside the cache, please, take one with you
  2. There's plenty of office-muggles roaming arround, please be extremely cautious during the cache hunting and logging (especially during the working hours)

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

zntargvp ;)

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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