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+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen1.jpg | car navigation instructed me to go through this 'tunnel' | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen2.jpg | some festival going on nearby | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen3.jpg|quiet road leading up to the geohash | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen4.jpg|quiet and peaceful scene | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen5.jpg|Me, standing at the spot | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen6.jpg|the parking lot | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen7.jpg|Not a very interesting place.. | ||
+ | Image:2012-06-03_52_4_alphen8.jpg|Road is closed for a running event. See runner. Also, somebody wrote 'XD' on the road sign. 2 letters are missing, I guess | ||
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Revision as of 20:10, 3 June 2012
Sun 3 Jun 2012 in 52,4: 52.1220486, 4.6763580 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
Alphen aan den Rijn - East
Participants
Plans
No plan. Just a quick visit during daytime whenever I feel like it. This one can't be that hard.
Expedition
First drawback was that the destination road was not available in my car navigation. So I entered a nearby road in my navigator and drove there. The geohash was shown to be located on a parking lot near a large sporting area.
About 800m from the destination, the second unexpected event came up. I encountered a sign, telling the road was closed. This was because there was some kind of run for charity going on.
There were two options now: Go back and chose another road, or park and walk the rest.
I chose the latter. During this walk I crossed some kind of familily event on a large grass field, which was probably around the finish line of the run.
The walk to the geohash was a very nice one. There's a beautiful quiet park around the sporting facilities and although the clouds looked if it was going to rain any time, I kept it dry during the whole walk.
Hardly had I visited the final spot, or a girl came walking to the same spot from the opposite direction. I thought she was geohashing too and that this was a highly unlikely coincidence. However, she was just looking for the finish line of the running event, where she was to meet a friend. I was the only one around at that moment, so she walked up to me to ask where to go. I was a bit disappointed and not familiar in the area, and although I expected it was at the field I crossed earlier, I told her frankly she'd better ask somebody else.
Concluding, this was a good trip for a cloudy Sunday afternoon and the geohash was very doable.
Tracklog
Photos
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