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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 26 October 25 November 2010 he has hitched 292295,916993.6 3 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:''' 292295,916993.6 3 km (as of 2010-1011-26T0525T06:2719)* '''Best 24 hour:''' 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte 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).
* '''Fastest ride:''' 190.2 km/h (<!-- span style="color:blue" -->''average speed!''<!-- /span -->), from Raststätte Raststätte Aurach (Germany) (2010-06-14T20:06) to Raststätte Raststätte In der Holledau (2010-06-14T20:50). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!* '''Fastest trip:''' 23,422076.0 7 km in 1924:43 16 hours (<!-- span style="color:blue" -->''actual driving time''<!-- /span -->), from [[Oostende]] (Belgium) (2010-0611-14T0522T06:4956) via Germany ([[München]](ish)/[[Berlin]](ish)) back to [[Oostende]] (Belgium) (2010-0611-16T1025T06:0619).* Best [http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveller traveler (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2 and 2007/8.
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