I drove to the location and I turned on my GPS. I was closer to the cache than I thought. The co-ordinates were somewhat inaccurate and I spent some time searching. The clue to the cache was "where it rains more sand than water", and i noticed that under the bridge, there was sand, and obviously it can't rain there. I then decided to take a look. I saw two identical bottles, but I thought that the cache couldn't possibly be an old bottle, since the co-ordinates didn't even point there, so I kept looking, but never finding anything. I then decided that the bottles deserved another look. I waited for some passers-by to go and then I painfully made my way under the bridge, took the bottle and saw some paper in it which I instantly recognized as the logbook. Hurray! I found the cache. I wrote down the date and my username that I use at geocaching.com and as there was not much else interesting in the bottle, so I put it back and went on my way.
The next location was the multi-cache in the Church of Tapiola. This cache was more complex than the others because I had to find information to complete the cache's co-ordinates in order to find the cache. I had to count the rows of seats in the church, and the number of "+" sings on a plaque next to the graveyard. I then had to use them in a simple mathematical equation to complete the co-ordinates. It sent me waay off track and I decided to be done with this one, as I had clearly done the maths wrong. I moved on to the next cache and decided to come back to this one later.
The next cache was the chapel. This one was a micro cache, which was said to be smaller than a film canister. I was feeling quite tired at this point and even though I spent a good deal of time searching for the cache, I couldn't find it. I decided I didn't have to come back to this one but it didn't bother me so much.
The next day, I decided to go back to the church where the multi-cache was. I tried doing the maths again, but it sent me quite far from the church itself again. From the comments of the profile of the cache, I can determine that the cache itself is hidden in the graveyard, but none of my co-ordinates that I have calculated show the way there. I think that I have either counted the number of pews in the church wrong, the number of "+" signs wrong or done both. I will come back to this one for the third time in the future.
Pictures from the trip:
The bottle cache.
The bridge it was under.
The soon to be demolished chapel.
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