2011-05-05 41 -8

Thu 5 May 2011 in Porto, Portugal: 41.1680869, -8.5890176 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Participant

JRK

Expedition

I´m starting my Camino today (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_St._James, beginning in Porto, Portugal and going to Santiago, Spain. The way will take around 250km and 10 days. After arriving in Porto I checked for geopoint and to my delight I discovered a) it´s a virgin one b) todays point is almost in the middle of the city. So in the early morning instead of resting after long trip to Portugal, I set on a small geohashing adventure.

Using the power of metro and my soon-to-be-tested-to the limits walking skills I found the point (some big street, kind of hard to get to it, but I managed!) and returned to my hostel even before the breakfest. I´ll upload the pictures as soon as I find some internet place that will allow me to connect my camera to USB port.

Oops, forgot about this one :D. Almost two months later - finally some photos!

Photos

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  Google map view.

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  Going north trough empty streets of Porto.

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  It was too early for most of the people :).

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  Hmm, was that the spot, or the next picture?

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  Can't remember after two months :D.

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  And now bonus - some pictures from more exciting parts of Porto!

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  Narrow but busy streets.

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  City center.

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  Eiffel bridge (yep, the same guy that made that famous tower).

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  Douro river.

JRK earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (41, -8) graticule, here, on 2011-05-05.