Leiden Urban 2

by Prof. Y. Lupardi
The position of this cache is (WGS-84):
N 52° 09.750'
E 004° 30.203'
Use Waypoint: GC15C8
and is situated in the Kingdom of The Netherlands (Holland, Dutch, Amsterdam, Ajax, cheese, wooden shoes, tulips, dikes, cows, water, windmills etc.)
and is hidden on 8/11/2001

ATTENTION!!! This cache has disappeared on april 28 2002. It has lived for 9 month before being stolen.No reincarnation is planned in the near future.

Here is a map.
Here is an old b/w aireal photograph (spring 1989).
Here is a new colour aireal photograph (summer 2000, height 300 m).

In a small park near the Zijlpoort. It borders a populous district near the harbour.

Is the cache Leiden Urban 1 placed in an affluent neighbourhood near University and musea (near a tourist route), this cache lies outside the normal townwalks. But beware: this cache is beneath a 'dogwalking path'.

With a small boat you can near the cache but lookout: between cache "Goose Eggs" and this one the route is blocked by a dam. On one site of the dam cool water is taken in and hot water is expended on the other side. This is because the local electricity generator also functions as townheating station.

I advice to walk the last stretch. Nearby is a place to sit and table food and drinks but it is better to move to the old building of the Zijlpoort where there is a restaurant with view on the harbour.

There is a gravelroad along the cemetery leading to the cache.
I have hidden this cache the same way as I have done with 'Biertje?'.

On the map (RD-coords) the position is:
094 528 / 464 184

I do not know why the name 'Tapijtkloppersbrug' is used. Was that a real profession in the past?
This town has more of these name-jokes. The 'Ruime Concientieplein' is very small but was in later days a marketplace for ladies of a known reputation.

Spoiler hint and photographs: (click here)

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