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News 24 July 2020 Reasearch: "Please participate in the questionnaire about finding Stop-Over Destinations on your hitchhiking-trips." Check https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/hitchhiking 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 15 March 2020 REISMARKT: the travel fair for independent travellers, Bruges, Belgium. There will be a panel discussion (in dutch) on hitchhiking at 12h30. More info on [1] canceled 11-19 April 2020 Trustroots Hackweek. Due to present circumstances the hackweek will be focussing on online meetups and the real life gathering is postponed. 4-7 July 2020 [2] Conference Panel - "Autostop/hitchhiking: socio-spatial understandings" at the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference (London). 17-18 July 2020 BreakOut 2020 - 36h charity travel competition. Starting from Munich, Berlin and Cologne, Germany. More info on [3] canceled 3-8 August 2020 Hitchflygathering - Hitch Gathering near la Dune du Pyla (France) with possibility to hitch a ride on a tandem flight. May continue for one more week. 2-mid August 2020 Scandinavian Hitch Gathering 2020 - As the name says, in Svullrya, Norway. 15-23 August 2020 9th European Hitchhiking Competition (EHC2020) from Vienna to Tbilisi. More info on [4] canceled

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.