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We went Geocaching on the outskirts of Bucharest today. After a bit of off-road driving in a field near the Mihailesti lake we found the first cache within 5 minutes of arriving on the scene.
Minutes later, somebody in our group (I'm not saying who) slipped into a sewage canal... in a very spectacular manner. The event just brightened everyone's day. Jokes and stories WILL be told for years to come.
We weren't as lucky with our second geocache attempt. We took the instructions to the letter and searched the railway near the Jilava penitentiary for over an hour. It didn't seem worth looking elsewhere as the area was full of trash.
Looking for this cache I think I understood a bit about what forced labour must have been like for those imprisoned politically in communist times. Standing bottom up in the afternoon sun, plus the disappointment of not finding the cache, made up a pretty clear cut image of a life lesson. I don't know if that was actually the point of the exercise.
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