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<!-- bio is currently unreachable[http://www.digihitch.com/road-culture/hitchhikers-modern/996 Robert Prins (minuscule bio)]<br /> -->
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Robert "<!-- span style="color:blue" -->'''prino'''<!-- /span -->" Prins is a 50-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <!-- span style="color:blue" -->'''recorded'''<!-- /span --> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 14 September 6 October 2010 he has hitched 289291,892615.5 9 km in the following 32 countries:
[[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]].
== Personal hitch-hike records/statistics ==
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Whoopie!]]
* '''Career distance:''' 289291,892615.5 9 km (as of 2010-0910-14T0506T16:2720)
* '''Best 24 hour:''' 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte Hamburg-Stillhorn (Germany) (1989-07-05T24:00). This record can be found on page 179 of the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records, see the link from [[Hitchhiking World Records]] for full details.
* '''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).
===='''On [http://www.digihitch.com/ Digihitch]'''====
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1546.html A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (way back in 2000...)]<br />
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1503.html Records are there to be broken (or I love hitch-hiking in Germany)]<br />
