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Location

Near Michelshausen or Dagobertshausen, suburbs of Marburg, a dozen meters or so into a field.

Participants

Rincewind and Salta

Expedition

We used the beautiful autumn day to look for Tag der deutschen Einheit's hash (German reunification holiday). The satellite photo showed a potential easy hash and so Salta, trusty Car and me hit the road from Gießen to Marburg. Apart from a rather beautiful landscape, we encountered a sign for "Kürbisse >" two kilometers from the destination- pumpkins for sale. Since I love what Salta does with those, we pulled into the driveway and found quite a display of pumpkins- and absolutely noone to sell them. That miracle solved itself by way of a bird's house in the middle of the pumpkins enscripted with "Kasse"- cash box. Sometimes things work the easy way, still.

With half a trunk full of (paid-for!) pumpkins of various kinds we set off again and reached the destination shortly after. Or at least, almost. I now know what Mampfred meant by "Worst. GPS. Ever". I appear to own one of those, too. The location jumped so badly,it just wasn't possible to be on the correct spot on both axes. Not that we could have tried with a bit patience, but the field was not, as I hoped, mowed and lying idle, but freshly ploughed- and possibly already sewn in. Hence it was bad enough to walk through once, but didn't seem acceptable to repeatedly trot through. In theory, we must have been ten-fifteen meters from the coordinates.

I'd say that at least it is good for a Radio Yerevan-achievement. ;) Apart from that, Salta not only is worth (more than gold and a) Drag-along-Achievement- she also insisted on me buying a better GPS unit if I want her to accompany me again. Guys- when did your girl last ask you to buy more geek toys? Woohoo! :)

After accepting that this (car navigation) gps unit is worth crap in outdoor use and the farmer has some right to bring in his crop sometime we set off for Marburg and walked through the old town centre- definitely worth a (second) visit.