2024-05-18 49 8

Sat 18 May 2024 in 49,8: 49.1728929, 8.0998813 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

In a vineyard near Landau in der Pfalz.

Participants

• Baarde

Plans

Baarde will take the train to Wissembourg and cycle to the coordinates. He expects to be there at 16:00.

Expedition

The ride to the geohash was very pleasant. Once you’ve crossed the border to Germany, almost every path is paved. So I just had to aim in the direction of the coordinates and take whatever path was going that way.

The coordinates were located in a vineyard near Landau. I arrived slightly before 16:00 and met nobody.

Rather than cycling back to France, I decided to take the train. So I bought a ticket and SNCF sent me an email telling me I would be able to collect my ticket at one of their vending machines… in France.

That’s European railway interoperability for you! 😅

Photos

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  Crossing the border

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  Surroundings (South)

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  Surroundings (West)

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  Surroundings (North)

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  Stupid grin

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  Coordinates reached

Achievements

Baarde earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, 8) geohash on 2024-05-18.

Baarde earned the Border geohash achievement by crossing the France-Germany border on 2024-05-18 to reach the (49, 8) geohash.

Baarde earned the xkcd Decurion achievement by attending 12 Saturday meetups.