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Location

This Geohash is located on a meadow in Schlagsdorf.

Participants

• Leidenfrost
• Fippe

Plans

Meet at 11:42 in Ratzeburg at the Demolierung bus stop and walk the rest of the distance from there.

Expedition

Fippe

It did not go as we initially planned! :D

After I went to sleep, Leidenfrost wrote me that the bus from Hamburg would not be arriving at 11:42, suggesting 12:40 as an alternative. I read this message after waking up, but not wanted to risk a coming back home too late, so I counter-suggested 10:42 and left the house, hoping that he might see the message in time. I took the train from Hannover via Lüneburg to Ratzeburg.

In Ratzeburg I got the message that 10:42 would not be possible for Leidenfrost, but he would come at 12:40. I had just narrowly missed the bus that would go to the Demolierung stop, so I figured since I had time now, I might as well walk there. Further chatting resulted in a new plan: I would start walking towards the hash, and Leidenfrost would catch up to me on a rental bike or by hitch-hiking.

At 11:42, I was at the Demolierung in order to pick up any Ninjas who might have read the original plans, but nobody else showed up. Then, I started walking east. Ratzeburg is a nice city, and Demolierung (Engl. demolition) seems like a misnomer for their central bus stop named after a main street in front of their nice city hall. The central city is located on an island in the lake bearing the same name, connected to the main land through isthmi and bridges to the east and west. The train station had been to the west, and now I was walking eastwards off the other side of the island.

After walking through the rest of the city I arrived at a highway without a footpath next to it. Arriving at the state border there finally was a path. Not soon afterwards, I took a left into the forest, and the a smaller path led me to the site of the Geohash, an overgrown meadow next to a cornfield. In there, there already are some trails. Earlier Geohashers? Animals? Perhaps the latter. After locating the coordinates and recording proof, I got out of the meadow, back to the path, and waited for Leidenfrost. Not for long though: ETA 13:37, Leidenfrost wrote, just ten minutes from now!

And then he arrived: After our Radio Yerevan situation on Sylt, we had a proper meetup. Leidenfrost reached the coordinates too, and I got into the meadow again too. Afterwards, we walked and talked all the way back to Ratzeburg, and even arrived a few minutes early at the station. I was nice to meet you, Leidenfrost! It is always nice to have a conversation with someone who is excited about Geohashing too.

From Ratzeburg, I took the train to Lüneburg. There I saw that not only the next train to Uelzen had been cancelled, but also the train after that. A bad day to try to travel via Uelzen. Instead, I took the train via Hamburg-Harburg and Buchholz back to Hannover.