2010-10-25 48 12

Location

In Köfering, on what looks like a farm yard or small industrial facility. Might not be accessible, but the option of meeting Dawidi in Regensburg still makes it worth trying.

Participants

The current überplannen

The current plan is this: Robyn, Wade & Ekorren will arrive at Köfering at 15:22 via München where they will have locked up their luggage and been joined by zb.

It is 1.5 km from the Köfering Bahnhof to the geohash. One hundred metres from the geohash is a bus stop where we can catch a bus to Regensburg at 16:13 or 16:43, (25 minute trip).

Everyone is welcome to join at any point on the trip, and sharing those fancy 5-in-1 railroad ticket things is encouraged.

More details below.

This is the schedule:

Tübingen 9:15
...
Ulm 11:02 / 11:24
München 13:22 / 13:44
Eggmühl 14:59 / 15:12
Köfering 15:22
(walk to hash and then to the busstop)
Köfering Schloss 16:13 by bus
Regensburg Hbf 16:40 (or get off a stop earlier which might be closer to the centre)

This variant has several advantages: It allows to leave the luggage at München, which makes the walking part easier and faster, and there are 7 minutes more of time at Köfering. Together with using the bus back it will give us enough time at Köfering to not be in a hurry, and still leaves about 3 hours at Regensburg. --Ekorren 18:47, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

The general idea

Robyn and Wade from Vancouver, Canada, are in Germany and plan to travel from the Heidelberg or Tübingen area to München. As can be expected from geohashers with attitude (GWA), they don't just take the straight connection, but want to (i) see stuff on the way and (ii) log successful geohashes while doing so. As of 2010-10-23, they are exploring BaWü with Ekorren and plan to leave his home graticule on Monday morning. Ekorren found out that it would be possible to meet dawidi in Regensburg, see lots of beautiful ancient bricks there and head on to this location before continuing on to München in 48 11. zb has the day off, so he can meet the group along the way. Everyone is happy if others join in somewhere along the way. --Zb 08:48, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Schedules

See the überplannen above. Getting to München from Regensburg after going sightseeing there will not be so hard that we have to figure out the details before. --Zb 19:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Tickets

Ekorren, for what parts of the trip will you have your own tickets? Are you using an IC/ICE from München to Ulm at night? I'm thinking about bringing a By-Ticket to Ulm, which would have to have my name on it, could be used by us throughout the day and would also be good for Robyn, Wade and me in München after we get to München Hbf. --Zb 18:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

I won't have any other ticket than the Bayern-Ticket for Bayern. Current plan is:

Go to Ulm with the Bayern-Ticket on a late train (22:02 from München, 0:01 at Ulm)
Buy a ticket for the IC from Ulm to Plochingen, pretending to want to continue to Tübingen by RE with the Baden-Württemberg-Ticket from the morning
Try to convince DB to pay for a taxi from Stuttgart to Tübingen because the IC was late and missed the train to Tübingen (this might be different in case the RE waits for the IC. The IC being in time is something that basically doesn't happen, though)

zb will buy a day pass for München's public transport that he will use to get to München Hbf to meet everyone. This pass will also be good for Robyn, Wade and zb after coming back to München Hbf at night. --Zb 19:58, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Expedition

With that amount of planning, you're probably expecting a smoothly executed expedition, and that's what we had.

Getting There

Wade, Robyn & Ekorren

Six Geohashers in Köfering

Shortly after the Tübingen/Munich part of the expedition team arrived at Köfering, another train arrived, and Tanya (from 48 12 on her first expedition) and dawidi emerged.

Now complete, they walked northwest through the village towards the coordinates, with ekorren urging them to keep up a good pace, since they had only 45 minutes to spend on the geohash. The last bit of road to the hash went through some kind of semi-abandoned-looking farmyard with a sign of the local boxing club, but there were cars going through the place to get to the next village, and no no-trespassing sign in sight, so they walked in and easily reached the exact spot - just under the projecting roof of a barn.

Pictures (and pictures of pictures, all the way down) were taken, and since nobody had remembered to bring chalk, they pushed some leaves on the ground around to say "xkcd". An attempt at people-letters was also performed. With about 15 minutes remaining, they paid a quick visit to the nearby moated castle, then returned to the bus stop and, shortly after, were on their way to Regensburg.