2020-09-18 41 2

Fri 18 Sep 2020 in Barcelona, Catalonia: 41.5402238, 2.0324297 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Carrer de Mercuri in the outskirts of Terrassa, Vallès Occidental, Catalonia.

Participants

SastRe.O

Expedition

It poured some serious rain this morning, so I wasn't quite sure if I would be going after this near hash. But at the early afternoon it stopped and the sky cleared, so I took the chance.

Took the train to Les Fonts (literally meaning The Fountains in catalan), just a couple of stops from home, and walked from there. The hash fell in an industrial area, so it's not the worthies place to visit. And, as I expected from google maps, the hash fell on private property. I think it's a pharmaceutical company. I did not take my GPSr, and the GPS of my phone is not as precise.

So, as far as the tracklog it recorded shows, I reached the coordinates, but only because the GPS was not precise. I cannot call it a reached coordinates. The hash fell a few meters, 3 or 4, behind the fence. Took a picture and walked back.

I didn't go directly to the train station, I visited a little bit Les Fonts. I obviously encountered a few fountains. But what is more noticeably is the castle. And it's not an ancient castle with history or anything of this sort. As far as I know, it's a private recent construction from someone who simply wanted to construct for himself a castle. It's quite histrionic. A mash-up of styles and decorations. Beautiful? I wouldn't call it like that, but everyone is free to judge ;) It's certainly unique.

After that I slipped on some mud while trying to find a geocache and grabbed the train back home with a mud stain on the back of my white shorts ¿^^.

Tracklog

Recorded with my phone... you can see it's really bad.

Photos

Industrial Area Colom as in Columbus.  The hash fell behind the fence, where the tree is, more or less...  Naturally I found a fountain in Les Fonts. Fountain of the hunters.  View of Les Fonts. Can you spot the castle?  Detail on the decorations of the castle.  Side view of the castle.  One of the towers.  And a frontal view from the other side of the river.

Achievements

SastRe.O earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost (3m) reaching the (41, 2) geohash on 2020-09-18.

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Expeditions and Plans

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