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Location

A meadow in Wallisellen.

Participants

Plans

Calamus

S14 train leaving Zurich 3 at 11.12am to Wallisellen
12 tram at 11.27 to Belair
Walk

Expedition

Chris

Wallisellen. Alright then. Wallisellen ist a suburban town of Zurich with a funny name. Maybe that's the reason it appears in a children rhyme in swiss german which goes 'D chatz goht uf Walliselle', which means 'The cat goes to Wallisellen'. That's why probably every kid in Switzerland knows this town. At least by name. And a famous swiss folk singer named Stiller Has wrote a song called Walliselle, satirically pointing out that there are probably nicer places in the country than that one.
So, it's just another suburban town of Zurich. Houses, Streets, Toys'r'us and Ikea. And a geohash, which lies just in between an industrial area, a railway line and a highway intersection. Right under an approach corridor of the airport. Lovely. Probably the noisiest hash point ever.
No reason to not go there. I took the S12 train to Stettbach, and tram 12 from there right to Belair station. I walked to the spot and found the coordinates. There was a fence which i didn't want to cross, so i was probably 3 meters from the actual place, but i think thats still okay. While looking for the coordinates i really had to look hard for all the dog turds that were laying around there. Urgh. Anyways, i took a few pictures and went home. Farewell, Wallisellen!