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Location

Alsónémedi, Hungary

Participants

Expedition

The Planing

Some of thepiguy's friends were taking a trip to Budapest for the weekend to see the sights of the beautiful city and take in some culture. thepiguy decided to tag along so that he could abandon them at the first opportunity and go Geohashing.

thepiguy emailed Tom, the only local Geohasher he could contact, at the beginning of the week and was ecstatic to find that Tom was not only alive, but also free for Geohashing! This meant that thepiguy could meet yet another awesome Geohasher and as an added bonus, wouldn't die alone in the gutter of a small Hungarian village.

After a nail bitting Friday HashOclock, and a series of emails a plan was made for the Saturday coordinates that lay less than 25km from the center of Budapest.

The Traveling

thepiguy Würzburg Friday night at 21:00 for a pleasant tiring 12 hour train ride to Hungary. That was longer than his flight from Canada.

Once safely in Budapest thepiguy quickly deserted his friends and set out to meet new ones. Tom managed to find him