2018-11-10 46 6

Sat 10 Nov 2018 in 46,6: 46.6937706, 6.7751711 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

Neyruz-sur-Moudon, canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Participants

FelixTheCat (talk)

Expedition

I had been trying to do this for a while: find a geohash somewhere in Europe (not in NL or BE), and get there and back again in one day. For this, three things needed to be in place:

1. A reachable geohash (not in water, someone's house, or on the top of a mountain)
2. An affordable way of getting there on one or two days' notice
3. Something interesting nearby that I would visit even if I wasn't hashing

Many times I've cross-checked Google Flights and geohashing.info on Friday evenings to see if I could make such a trip on the weekend, but opportunities have so far been very few. But this weekend, the stars were aligned correctly. There was a hash in a forest near Lausanne, there were still affordable flights available to Geneva, and I had always wanted to visit the old Montreux recording studio used by Queen and see Freddie Mercury's statue on the waterfront. So on Friday evening I booked flight tickets and a rental car and went to bed early. I got up very early the next morning and set off!

There

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  The car park at Schiphol Airport is divided into sections named after traditional Dutch things. I was in "Wooden shoe" today.

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  Our flight: a cute little Embraer 175 operating KL1925 to Geneva.

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  The sun rises as we fly over Luxembourg.

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  Landed at GVA. There's a weird dot pattern on the windows so you can't make clear pictures :-(

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  I had reserved a "surprise model" since that was the cheapest option. On checking in, the clerk asked me "if a Mercedes-Benz E-Class would be all right?". "That'll do" was my reply :-D

The hash

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  Parked the Benz at a forest road.

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  It was a bit foggy, but not too cold.

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  The hash is somewhere up ahead.

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  Made it!

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  Lloyd celebrating.

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  Another view of the hash.

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  And another.

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  And yet another.

The sights

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  Freddie Mercury overlooking Lake Geneva.

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  The exhibition in the old studio.

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  The actual recording location!

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  Sampling the local cuisine: a McRaclette with Rösti Fries and Apfelschorle.

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  The more traditional visitors to this town did not need such cost-cutting on their food :-)

And back again

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  A Boeing 737-700 brings us back to Schiphol.

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  It had started to rain as we prepared for takeoff.

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  Back at Wooden Shoe, the old hashmobile is still there.

Tracklog

Today I covered a total of 1896 km!

Achievements

FelixTheCat (talk) earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (46, 6) geohash on 2018-11-10.