2024-05-23 39 8

Location

On a private allotment or orchard, about 70 meters away from the closest road, in Santa Barbara, Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. The closest settlements are Sarroch in northeast direction and Villa San Pietro in south direction.

This day’s weather: sunny / mild-warm

Participants

Green guy! (talk)
Green guy!’s mother (no consent to publish photos of her)
Green guy!’s father (no consent to publish photos of him)
Italian taxi driver (no consent to publish photos of him)

Plans

After landing in Cagliari Airport, take the car rented beforehand (around 7:00–7:30 pm)
On the way towards the hotel Flamingo Resort & Spa, take a quick detour to visit the hashpoint
After that, continue towards the hotel with the rental car

Expedition

Shockingly for us, there was a problem with the car rental at Cagliari Airport: We rented the car for exactly 10:30 am even though we knew we’d arrive later – because my parents thought “10:30 am” meant “from 10:30 am to any later time”. The result: Someone else received the rental car meant for us. We could barely convince the desk person to refund the rental fee (as we had paid in advance).

With no rental car being available for us, reaching the coordinates seemed to be almost impossible both in the technological and time constraint kind (as it was 7:30 pm at the time and we wanted to have dinner at the hotel).

We settled on the alternative to get driven to the hotel by taxi. After approaching one, we immediately asked the driver whether he would be willing to take a detour from the regular route. Communication was somewhat difficult, as the Italian driver only understands a few bits of English (and no German).

Beautiful seaside sunset
Taxi front-seat perspective
Did I capture a flamingo on camera?
More solar beauty
Approaching a short tunnel

The taxi driver agreed and even had quite some fun taking the detour. We drove as close as possible to the hashpoint, but it turned out that the coordinates lie on private property (allotments or orchards). At that moment, the entrance gate was open, but we asked the owner and he (obviously) said “no”, earning me the No Trespassing achievement. Anyway, we saw a family with children on the property and the taxi driver had a short chat with the owner. It was a beautiful sight and, overall, a joyful experience for all of us, including the taxi driver.

Respecting private property even though the gate is open (ignore the phone case’s flap on the top right)
One final view at the hashsite from our taxi while doing a u-turn

Hotel reached

Finally, we continued to our hotel, Flamingo Resort & Spa, to start our actual vacation. Upon arriving, we gave the taxi driver a big tip for the detour.

Tracklog: Taxi ride from airport to hotel

I forgot to immediately start the tracklog.
Direction: south
GPS accuracy: good
Markers show all locations where I took photos.

Achievements

First-time

I earned these for the first time from this geohash.

Green guy! earned the No trespassing consolation prize

by almost (about 70 m away) reaching the (39, 8) geohash on 2024-05-23.

Green guy! earned the Two to the N achievement

by attempting to reach 2³ hashpoints on 2024-05-23 39 8 and is promoted to Level 3 (Expeditions).

Recurring

I already earned these from an earlier geohash, but fulfilled the conditions again on this one.

Green guy! (talk) earned the OpenStreetMap achievement

by contributing [1] to OpenStreetMap based on their expedition to the (39, 8) geohash on 2024-05-23.


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