Archive for August, 2009

Just a map of the roads passed

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

black line goes through the roads I hitchhiked on, blue line is a distance I hitchhiked with the company and the brown one works the same as the black one, just made it in order not to confuse

Delft – Bartoszyce

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

So, after 2 months travelling this was my last step before going home. I started hitching on the ramp at 12:50 and at 13:05 a guy around 40 years old, very friendly stopped and took me to Utrecht. He dropped me on the petrol station on the motorway at 13:46. I decided not to ask [...]

Spontaneity above all!

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

The 17th and 18th of August So, I was sitting in my friend’s office thinking what to do, called a friend and it turned out that we have an appointment in Delft, Netherlands in one day. I was thinking of leaving the next day but actually I felt like hitchhiking a long distance, so I [...]

Krakow – Warsaw

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

The 16th of August As we had no place to stay we decided to go to Warsaw. We started hitching at 12:54 and at 13:28 a young couple stopped and took us to Kielce. Actually it tuned out they were such nice guys. We got there at 15:16 The spot was really shitty because the [...]

Kijev – Krakow

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

HUGE Summary of Kijev  : The 15th of August Allright, still along with Szymon we started hitching towards Krakow after amaizing time in Kijev. We got on the road at 7:50 and the first lift we got was at 8:15. Truck driver took us 120km further and dropped us off at 9:50 There we had [...]

Odessa – Kijev

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Summary of Odessa : After having a blast in Odessa we decided to move further. The meeting was great, seeing friends after a while and making friends around was amaizing. The local people were so friendly, thing is I havent been sober since I arrived to Odessa, means it’s 7th day right now A friend [...]

Chisinau – Odessa !

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

The 5th of August So we woke up early in the morning, took a shower, took a picture and then I was gone.  At 9:50 started hitching At 10:46 got the first car that stopped. An old guy driving really old jeep took me 20 km further. At 10:56 I was back on the road. [...]

Iasi – Chisinau

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The 3rd of August I thought it would be hard to cross Moldovan border and that hitching there wouldn’t be so easy, however, it was another successful day. Started at 12:29 in Iasi and 7 minutes later the old guy driving his mini-bus stopped and took me right to the border, where we got at [...]

Brasov – Iasi

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

So, that wasn’t so bad even though it was around 300km through really slow roads. I started at 12:14 First ride I got at 12:45 from an old guy in an old dacia , about 220km ride, we arrived to Strunga at 17:10 (with Dacia everything’s possible ). The second ride I got after 18 [...]