2011-09-04 59 22
| Sun 4 Sep 2011 in Hanko, Finland: 59.9459927, 22.9576861 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
On the field next to the road Fårtvättsvägen in Bromarv, Raseborg.
Participants
Plans
Visit some geocaches and the hashpoint.
Expedition
Phone's navigator showed that the haspoint was 45 km from home. Actually I checked it after the trip, as I didn't use the navigator to get there. First I searched a multi cache in Tenhola (Swedish: Tenala) village, then drove 25 km to the hash.
The haspoint was on a ploughed field some 35 metres from a small road. Swedish name of the road is Fårtvättsvägen, Finnish Fårtvättintie. The Finnish name has been formed from the original Swedish name by changing genitive 's' to 'in' and vägen (= road) to tie (= road). That's necessary because we Finns wouldn't otherwise understand it's a road. And vice versa, where applicable.
The road leads to a place called... Fårtvätt. I think it means Sheep Washing. I had never thought there has been need to practice such thing. <Add a link suggested by Google here>. Probably there isn't a sheep washing pool in the end of the road, if there has ever been.
So I parked next to a barn, changed to rubber boots and loped to the hash on the clayey field.
Photos
Coming some day, I hope...
