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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
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On a road in a commercial area in Neubrandenburg.
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==
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* [[User:lyx|lyx]]
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* [[User:relet|relet]]
  
== Plans ==
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== Expedition ==
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*Change of plans<sup>1</sup>. We're in Neubrandenburg now.  -- [[User:relet|relet]] [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.557502&lon=13.257386&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @53,5575,13,2574] 14:01, 13 Februar 2010 (MEZ)
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*Coordinates reached!  -- [[User:relet|relet]] [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.55852663516998&lon=13.30170214176178&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @53,5585,13,3017] 15:34, 13 Februar 2010 (MEZ)
  
== Expedition ==
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<sup>1</sup>The original vague plan was to visit the hash in [[52,12]] maybe. But since that would have involved biking through 40km of snow, relet was easily distraught from that plan. And since our own hash lay next to the taxiway of an airport (No access, even if you had had the clearance), we chose this easily reachable one in the city of Neubrandenburg, just 1h45 by train from our main station.
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We left Berlin at 11:44 in the company of a friendly, if somewhat talkative family of six. We learned that they had just returned from their holidays in Turkey, but since the airport in Rostock is closed for bad weather, they had been rerouted to Berlin. We also learned that kebap makes beddy-byes, as their youngest daughter proclaimed. They had already missed a train, and this one was scheduled to be replaced by a bus service for the last stops before they would reach their destination. Afterwards we agreed that we've rarely met this laid-back parents, but I guess that's what you have to learn with a flock of four.
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Reaching Neubrandenburg, we had plenty of time before 4pm. We decided to walk around the city walls and admire the brick architecture. You [[2009-03-01_52_12|do get]] fond [[2009-12-13_53_13|of bricks]] when hashing in Brandenburg. The city managed to preserve its old city walls (a tiny perimeter of 2.3km), the towers and the four gates that permit entry to the city. Hence it is dubbed the city of four gates (believe it or not!). They also managed to preserve (and in several occasions rebuild) the guardposts-turned-houses interrupting the line of the city walls.
  
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Their cathedral has met a similar fate as the houses and has been partially burned and been destroyed, and rebuilt on several occasions. Its walls of various patterns of brick and stone still serve as witness to that. The bells have been replaced particularly often, as they have always suffered when their belfry was burnt or damaged. The latest set of five bells stems only from the last decades.
  
*Change of plans. We're in neubrandenburg now.  -- [[User:relet|relet]] [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.557502&lon=13.257386&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @53,5575,13,2574] 14:01, 13 Februar 2010 (MEZ)
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After this historical excursion, we turned our minds and GPS device towards the geohash. It would lie in the east of the city, in a commercial/industrial area.  
  
*Coordinates reached!  -- [[User:relet|relet]] [http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.55852663516998&lon=13.30170214176178&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF @53,5585,13,3017] 15:34, 13 Februar 2010 (MEZ)
 
 
== Tracklog ==
 
== Tracklog ==
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== Photos ==  
 
== Photos ==  

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Location

On a road in a commercial area in Neubrandenburg.

Participants

Expedition

1The original vague plan was to visit the hash in 52,12 maybe. But since that would have involved biking through 40km of snow, relet was easily distraught from that plan. And since our own hash lay next to the taxiway of an airport (No access, even if you had had the clearance), we chose this easily reachable one in the city of Neubrandenburg, just 1h45 by train from our main station.

We left Berlin at 11:44 in the company of a friendly, if somewhat talkative family of six. We learned that they had just returned from their holidays in Turkey, but since the airport in Rostock is closed for bad weather, they had been rerouted to Berlin. We also learned that kebap makes beddy-byes, as their youngest daughter proclaimed. They had already missed a train, and this one was scheduled to be replaced by a bus service for the last stops before they would reach their destination. Afterwards we agreed that we've rarely met this laid-back parents, but I guess that's what you have to learn with a flock of four.

Reaching Neubrandenburg, we had plenty of time before 4pm. We decided to walk around the city walls and admire the brick architecture. You do get fond of bricks when hashing in Brandenburg. The city managed to preserve its old city walls (a tiny perimeter of 2.3km), the towers and the four gates that permit entry to the city. Hence it is dubbed the city of four gates (believe it or not!). They also managed to preserve (and in several occasions rebuild) the guardposts-turned-houses interrupting the line of the city walls.

Their cathedral has met a similar fate as the houses and has been partially burned and been destroyed, and rebuilt on several occasions. Its walls of various patterns of brick and stone still serve as witness to that. The bells have been replaced particularly often, as they have always suffered when their belfry was burnt or damaged. The latest set of five bells stems only from the last decades.

After this historical excursion, we turned our minds and GPS device towards the geohash. It would lie in the east of the city, in a commercial/industrial area.

Tracklog

Photos