2022-08-08 53 10

Location

in a dense maize-field in Seevetal, Niedersachsen

Participants

Leidenfrost

Expedition

Got to Farmsen and took the U1 to Hauptbahnhof-Süd, took the RE21 to Meckelfeld the S3 to Harburg the RE3 to Harburg , then took the 443 to Am Felde (Bf. Meckelfeld), Meckelfeld, then took the 248 to Milchberg, Maschen, then walked ~1km to the hash and got back home riding the 343 to Fleestedt, the 14 to Bf. Harburg, then took the S3 to Hamburg Hbf the RE4 to Hamburg Hbf , and then took the U1 to Farmsen back home.

I had plans earlier in the day, so I set off at 17 to arrive before 20 again, which thanks to cancellations didn't work out.

While on the U1 I noticed there was a discrepancy between the google-maps-route and the hvv-route, after doing some digging I found this article detailing that at 06:00, a burning truck stopped directly underneath a railway bridge, but while the fire was extinguished at 07:30, trains weren't running between Hammerbrook and Wilhelmsburg for a while, effectively meaning that there were no trains running between Hamburg Hbf and Harburg; thankfully, as this was >10 hours ago, I believed my services were probably accurate again, so, arriving at Hamburg Central Station, I looked at the departures board and could not find my RE21 to Meckelfeld, so HVV was probably right with the recommendation to use the S3 to Harburg, so I arrived at the platform but overheard a conversation between a traveller and a station-management person who said the S3 wasn't coming, and that they should use the Metronom RE3 heading to Lüneburg which had its first stop at Harburg; apparently this train was prioritised over the S3, but at least I had found a way to Harburg at last. While the demand for travel to Harburg stayed the same, the supply had been compromised during the last few hours, so the train was extremely full, where I was lucky to have been admitted in, after 20 minutes of being in a very hot carriage, I was finally in Harburg from where travel was unimpeded to my destination.

Arriving at the bus-stop Milchberg, Maschen, I only had a kilometre of walking ahead of me and I would be at the hash, I had a scenic walk over the river Seeve, and saw a hot-air balloon in the distance before I looked closer at the map; Google-maps was of the opinion that there would be a small stream lining the field, but I decided, I'd cross that bridge when I got to it; and to my luck: no stream was visible, just incredibly tall maize plants, so I walked on the edge of the field where at the half-way point a stream did appear out of a pipe. I decided that I really didn't want to fall into the water, so I rather made my way through through the field, going in the space between the plants. After wandering around for a long time, trying to stay up-to-date with my GPS-location and a lot of hashdancing, I finally made it to the hash, where I took the requisite pictures until I decided to go home, I had to hurry to get the next bus, but navigating through the maize-"maze" was proving more difficult than expected, I finally got out, walked around the edge again, and arrived at the bus-stop, with not a minute to spare. Getting home was fairly easy although the S-Trains were still not allowed passage, which was again neither reflected by hvv or Google-maps, but the RE still had free double-seats and was temperature-controlled. I got home ~2 hours later than I wanted, but not too late.

This marks the end of my consecutive hashes, I had hoped I'd break my record, but alas only tied it.

Photos

»'Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.'«
a hot-air balloon over a semi-scenic landscape
enhance!
proof1
proof2
the field
thankfully only here
standing on the hash
just maize
would have been an easier exit