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News 27 April 2019 - New Mailing List: since the old mailing list is down a new one was created on riseup.net: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/hitch | Subscribe and share with the users or the old mailing list as all the data was lost together with the list 19 Febuary 2019 Reasearch: "Please participate in the survey about emotional intelligence of hitchhikers if you haven´t done it yet." Check https://www.soscisurvey.de/EI_hitchhikers_eng/ 1st - 24th December 2016 There is an advent calender on tramprennen.org. One story about "first time-hitchhiking-experiences" is published everyday. Check http://tramprennen.org/blog/ 15 November 2016 The first app ever published by Hitchwiki is now available for free (as always) on the Play Store. Download it and keep track of the spots where you hitchhike, your waiting times and so on. In a future version the app will offer you an option to sync your hitching spots with Hitchwiki with no extra work. MyHitchhikingSpots. Special thanks to a random guy who gave an Android phone to one of our hitchhiking developers while traveling in Sweden! 25 June 2016 A new official hitchhiking spot has been opened in the Dutch town of Oldemarkt, in response to the insufficient public transport to Steenwijk. In addition a FB group was created to encourage ridesharing on this route. (Read old news here...) Events 30 May - 3 June 2019 - Hitchhiker Gathering in Tosor, Kyrgyzstan: Let's meet at the southern shore of Issyk Kul lake. There are plenty of abandoned beaches and hitchhiking is pretty easy in this area. The mountains just some hundered meters away. FB or Trustroots Meeting 1-2 June 2019 - HungaroHitch organizes a hitchhiker race in Hungary, starting from Budapest. Registration and more info on our website or FB. 8 June 2019 Pentecost race - Hitchhiking: Starting from Dresden, Germany we hitch hike around 400km to a wonderful, yet still secret destination that will be announced at the start of the event. Although strictly, it's a race, we basically hitchhike for fun and for the sake of meeting new people. Around 50 teams/100 participants can join. Visit our website for more information/to join! 22-24 June 2019 6th Swiss Hitchhiking Championship: As every year we will start in the little bilingual town Fribourg (not to confound with Freiburg in Germany ;) ) and will hitchhike in teams of 2 people to a surprise destination. Participation is free. Register here. 31 July - 4 August 2019 HitchFest 2019 in Portugal! The HitchFest is back, to deepen our sharing around travel, ecology, activism, art and self-discovery. Like the page, join the event and support the crowdfunding! 3-11 August 2019 After traveling Istanbul, Lisbon, Palermo, Thessaloniki, Baku and the cold North Cape last year, we will hitchhike this year from Gdańsk (Poland) to Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Free, cool people, big adventure (FB). 27-31 August 2019 IUAES2019 CFP - Hitchhiking: affect, spaces and stories. An academic panel will discuss hitchhiking in the end of August in Poland. We will hitch to the event, and try an organise some activity during the event. For more information, visit here or email me at [email protected] - username Subaculture on CS/BW etc.

Picture of the Moment Miran Ipavec's epic 10 day journey through 31 countries Hitchhiking Santa Klaus giving chocolates away to drivers Denmark to Germany. Pite wasn't the first at Rasthof Vaterstetten Ost on A99 near Munich.