2014-09-13 49 8

Sat 13 Sep 2014 in 49,8: 49.0761641, 8.1263233 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

On a field near Minfeld.

Participants

DODO

Plans

If the weather stays fine (or dry at least), I'll go there by bike after I've been to the market. Will probably arrive to early for a regular saturday-meetup, but can change that, if anyone else announces his (or her) arrival.

Expedition

The ride was quite unspectacular, bur it's autumn and here in palatinate this means there is a lot of food you can find on your way. First stop was between Bellheim and Rülzheim, where a friendly tree offers me an apple. The next stop was in the forest behind Rülzheim. I haven't yet been mushrooming this year, and so I decided to make a short side trip. And just after 200m I found several mushrooms, and a little while later even some, I knew to be edible. A while later I reached Minfeld, and the next stop wasn't for food but for culture. In Minfeld stands one of the oldest palatine churches (almost 1000 years old). And in the nearby cemetery I found several strange artworks. Just some 100 m later I met another friendly tree, which supported me with walnuts.

From here I had to leave the street and enter a path, which brings me up to 70 m to the hash, next to a big field full of corn. I certainly wont fight myself 70 m through that corn and so I wanted to turn around. Just let me see what is at the top of the hill some 30 m further. And indeed the cornfield ended there at a field planted with beets. Maybe I'm lucky and the hash isn't in the corn? So I tried to walk between the two fields and the distance to the hash melted away. Finally it was down to 20 m when it shows directly in the cornfield. Well, 20m seems reasonable... or at least possible. So I started to dive into the corn and it was surprisingly easy to walk between the plants; not really comfortable, but it was possible to pass between any two of them without doing them any harm. It wasn't enough room to do a hashdance, but as I came down to 2 m I didn't have to. Some quick photos and then I returned to my bike.

As I did stop so often it was already half past three and so I waited at my bike until a quarter to four, which for me is close enough to claim a saturday meetup, especially as I didn't expect someone else's appearance.

On my way back to Minfeld I came along some vineyards and nature granted me some grapes to. Nevertheless I got a little bit hungry and so I wanted to visit a cafe in Kandel on my way back, but mother nature was much more friendly to me than culture today, as the cafe was closed. So I just ate some of the salted almonds I took with me and rode on to Wörth, where I took the train home.

Tracklog

bike: 61 KM, train: 40 KM

Photos

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  a granted apple

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  some mushrooms I took with me

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  a mushroom I didn't take with me

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  old church in Minfeld

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  art in Minfeld

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  this friendly tree gifted me some walnuts

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  the cornfield at the hash. You can see the church of Minfeld at the horizon

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  corn and beet

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  still 20 m to the hash, looking back to my bike

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  proof

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  the view from the hash is pretty the same in all 4 directions

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  except in my direction of course

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  harvest