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== <h2>About ==</h2>
== <h2>Personal hitch-hike records/statistics ==</h2>
== <h2>Projects ==</h2>
== <h2>On the web ==</h2>
====<h4>'''Mentioned in a Master's Thesis'''====</h4>
====<h4>'''On [http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/ Abgefahren e.V.]'''====</h4>
====<h4>'''On the website of the [http://www.autostop.lt/ Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas]'''====</h4>
====<h4>'''On [http://www.suite101.com/ Suite 101]'''====</h4>
====<h4>'''On [http://bernd.wechner.info/ Bernd Wechner's mirror of Suite 101]'''====</h4>
====<h4>'''On [http://www.digihitch.com/ Digihitch]'''====</h4>
== <h2>Daily life ==</h2>
== <h2>Trivia ==</h2>
== <h2>Contact ==</h2>
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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 2 February 2011 at 16:10 he has hitched 300,092082.6 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]].
He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough of French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Whoopie!]]
* '''Career distance:''' 300,092082.6 km (as of 2011-02-02T16:10)
* '''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 [[Prino%27s_24-hour_record|details]].
* '''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).
* Best [http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveler (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2 and 2007/8.
* He is the author of a [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hitching/files/Robert%27s%20programs/ set of programs] to extract various [[Keeping statistics|statistics]] from notes made while hitchhiking, a short description of them can be found on [[User:prino/pascal|Prino's Programs]].
[http://membres.lycos.fr/bpierret/memoire/memoire.html Auto-stop Approche géographique (Sylvain Viard, 1999)]
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[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20081022/a-trip-denmark-and-liechtenstein-way-back-2000 A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (in 2000)]<br />
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080515/oostende-b-de-bilt-nl-and-back Oostende to De Bilt and back] -->
[http://www.autostop.lt/stories/2000prins.html Back home from the 4th IHHC]
[http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/hitch_hiking/11729 Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes]
[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?31 Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes]
[http://www.digihitch.com/road-culture/hitchhikers-modern/996 Robert Prins (minuscule bio)]<br />
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1412.html Oostende (B) - De Bilt (NL) and back]
In his daily life he is an analyst programmer with more than 25 years of experience in PL/I and somewhat less in DB2, CICS, REXX and IDMS. He is the author and maintainer of a set of [http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT769.zip REXX execs] that can be used to convert legacy languages into HTML. He is also, since February 2003, the maintainer of the mini-FAQ for the [news://comp.lang.pascal.borland comp.lang.pascal.borland] Usenet newsgroup.
He's currently unemployed. A CV is available on request.
The origins of "<!-- span style="color:blue" -->'''prino'''<!-- /span -->"?
The name "<!-- span style="color:blue" -->'''prino'''<!-- /span -->" was "given" to him in 1974 by his chemistry teacher, Eelco Hessling. When going through the names in his teachers notebook, he could not read his own handwriting, called "Robert Prins" "Robert Prino". The name was taken over by a few of his classmates and has stuck ever since.
* email: robert(a)prino(d)org
* Skype: prinox (or sometimes madtruffi)