2010-01-16 49 7

Location

On a field near Schweighofen

Participants

Plans

If everything goes well, I'll be in Landau at 12:57. From there the 13:05 bus will take me to Wissembourg (arrival 14:28). I'll walk the remaining 3.5 km.

Will be there. Haven't decided on a specific train yet. Koepfel _talk 16:02, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

ilpadre: It looks tempting (I've never before hashed that graticule), but it would be a 2 hour train ride each way, while there are lots of other things I have to do. So I probably won't join you. --129.206.75.59 16:04, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Fivetonsofflax: If you're in Landau, why don't you simply take the Regionalbahn from Neustadt to Wissembourg to Schweighofen Bahnhof? Takes 24 minutes, goes every hour, station is like 1.5 km from the hashpoint, seems easier than a 1.5 hour bus ride? I'll most likely take this one (leave Karlsruhe Durlacher Tor by S5 at 14:15, change trains in Wörth and Winden, arrive in Schweighofen at 15:22, be at the hash by 16:00). Koepfel _talk 16:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Hm. If I do that, I'll have to pay for a ticket because Weiden is located in KVV, and I'm a cheapskate :P. I think we should be at the hash at approximately the same time, anyway. Fivetonsofflax 18:22, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

To my knowledge, and also according to [1], everything between Wörth, Lauterbourg, Wissembourg, Rinnthal, Maikammer and Germersheim are disputed territories and KVV and VRN tickets are both valid, at least monthly tickets, single tickets might be more complicated. Koepfel _talk 18:44, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Read the small-print: "Für Fahrten von Landau, Bad Bergzabern und Wissembourg in diese Waben sowie für Fahrten in das übrige KVV-Gebiet werden KVV-Fahrscheine ausgegeben." Winden belongs to KVV, so I'd have to pay for Landau -> Wissembourg and back. I think 14:28 is a good time for me to arrive anyway. I guess I'll be at the hashpoint at around 16:00 as well.Fivetonsofflax 19:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

goddamnit. S5 from karlsruhe was 5 mins late, missed train to winden, i'm now stuck in wörth for an hour. --koepfel 14:04, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

i'm now in winden. Next train to schweighofen leaves at 16:08, arrives 16:22 --koepfel 80.187.104.48 14:40, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Expeditions

fivetonsofflax

I went from Heidelberg via Neustadt to Landau by train. From there, I took a bus to Wissembourg, France. The ride alongside the Palatinate forest was long but very enjoyable. There was a lot of nice little villages with timber framed houses, the snow-covered landscape was lovely as well. From Wissembourg station, I had to walk a few kilometers to get to the hashpoint. I left the city, crossed Altenstadt and the German border, walked through the fields for a while and arrived at the hashpoint location in a vineyard near Schweighofen. Koepfel said he would arrive at about 16:00. It was approximately 15:30 when I was at the hashpoint, so I sat down nearby and waited for him to arrive. When 16:00 had passed, I supposed he would be late, so I left and approached Schweighofen station. Koepfel arrived there at 16:22. I had to take the train back to Neustadt ten minutes later, though, so we only had time for a short chat and a photo.