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Details of See details on his trips can be found on log[[httpUser:prino/log| ]]<span style="display: none;"> </span>of hitching trips. <!-- or a [[User:prino.neocities.org/ Prino's site on Neocitiesmap|map]].-->
<!-- <h4>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/ Prino's Blog]</h4>
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<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2014/12/29/a-long-look-back/ A long look back]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2012/04/11/justina-maarten/ Justina & Maarten]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2012/02/27/2011-a-review 2011, a review]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/10/26/vak-15-no-escape-from-hitching-to-the-middle-of-nowhere/ VAK-15 - no escape from hitching to the middle of nowhere]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/10/09/trip-1-1980-and-as-a-bonus-trip-103-2011 Trip 1, 1980 (and as a bonus, trip 103, 2011)]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/08/13/raststatte-hopping/ Raststätte Hopping]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/05/28/numbers-numbers-numbers/ Numbers, numbers, numbers]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/04/29/inga/ Inga]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/04/14/so-where-do-you-sleep/ "So where do you sleep?"]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2011/03/13/looking-back-on-2010-a-very-good-hitchhiking-year/ Looking back on 2010, a very good hitchhiking year]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2010/09/20/close-but-no-cigar/ Close, but no cigar…]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2008/10/22/a-trip-to-denmark-and-liechtenstein-way-back-in-2000/ A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (way back in 2000...)]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2008/08/30/records-are-there-to-be-broken/ Records are there to be broken…]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2008/08/05/a-quick-trip-through-eight-countries/ A quick trip through eight countries]</li>
<li>[http://hitchwiki.org/prino/2008/05/15/oostende-b-de-bilt-nl-and-back/ Oostende (B) - De Bilt (NL) and back]</li>
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Robert "<strong>prino</strong>" Prins is a 56-year old hitchhiking grandfather of four, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <strong>recorded</strong> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 2 June 1 August 2016 at 19:08:52 he has hitched 487490,004923.4 5 km in the following 33 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]], [[Slovenia]] and [[Andorra]].
He has also been to the [[United States of America|USA]] on two occasions, visiting [[Austin]] and [[New York]], but he has not done any hitchhiking during those visits.
He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Famous for 15 minutes...]]
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<li><strong>Career distance:</strong> 487490,004923.4 5 km (as of 2016-0608-02T0801T19:5208)</li>
<li><strong>Best 24 hour:</strong> 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]].</li>
<li><strong>Best calendar month:</strong> 9,936.4 km, July 1990 - 17 hitchhiking days, the [[De Bilt]] to [[Athens (Greece)|Athina]] part of [[User:Prino/log/log1990|trip 11]].</li>
<li><strong>Best 365 days:</strong> 53,088.4 km, from 2014-09-16T09:47 to 2015-09-10T17:26 - 360 days (65 days on-the-road).</li>
<li><strong>Longest ride:</strong> 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54), also in trip 11.</li>
<li><strong>Fastest ride:</strong> 196.1 km/h (<em>average speed!</em>), from Raststätte Fränkische Schweiz/Pegnitz (Germany) (2015-05-27T06:05) to Raststätte Fläming (2015-05-27T07:49) - the ride included a refullingrefuelling/toilet stop from 6:58 to 7:09. There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, the highest ever observed speed was in a Mercedes E63 AMG on 2016-05-25 between 19:59 and 21:22 during ride 7 of trip 176, from [[MOP]] Nowostawy to a [[petrol station]] after the exit [[PoznanPoznań]] Komorniki, when the digital speedo showed a speed of 300 km per hour. An attempt by the driver to go [[Hitchhiking_Records#The_highest_speed|faster]] failed due to the too high density of traffic.</li>
<li><strong>Fastest <!-- short (< 1,000 km) --> trip:</strong> 613.5 km in 4:37 hours (<em>actual driving time</em>), from Oostende (Belgium) (2016-02-27T08:46) via Germany back to Oostende (2014-02-27T19:29).</li>
<!-- <li><strong>Fastest long (>= 1,000 km) trip:</strong> 3,186.7 km in 24:32 hours (<em>actual driving time</em>), from Oostende (Belgium) (2014-01-27T07:20) via Germany and Luxembourg back to Oostende (2014-01-30T14:25).</li> -->
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<li>He is the executive producer of [https://vimeo.com/165379538 "North"], a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4829064/ short movie] by [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3853480/ Sarah Franke].</li>
<li>He is the author of a [httphttps://groupsdrive.yahoogoogle.com/neo/groups/hitchingdrive/filesfolders/Robert%26%2339%3Bs%20Programs 0B0oygbfs7DsVVWNBZWpqaHRHX3c set of programs] to extract various [[Keeping http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/keeping-statistics|.html statistics]] from notes made while hitchhiking, a short description of them can be found on [http://prino.neocities.org/miscellaneous/pascal.html Prino's Programs].</li>
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<h2>On the web</h2>
<h4>[https://sites.google.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhiking/prino-s-blog Prino's Blog]</h4>
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<li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.comorg/siteblog/robertahprins2015-12-31%20-%20Ich%20fahre%20schnell.html Ich fahre schnell…] (Originally published on 2015-12-31) <li>[http:/home/hitchhikingprino.neocities.org/prino-s-blog/older2014-entries/2014122912-a29%20-long-look-back %20A%20long%20look%20back.html A long look back] (Originally published on 2014-12-29)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2012-entries/2012041104-justina11%20-maarten %20Justina%20&%20Maarten.html Justina & Maarten] (Originally published on 2012-04-11)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2012-entries/2012022702-201127%20-a-review %202011,%20a%20review.html 2011, a review] (Originally published on 2012-02-27)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.comorg/siteblog/robertahprins/home/hitchhiking/prino2011-s10-blog/older-entries/2011102626%20-vak%20VAK-15%20-no-escape-from-hitching-to-the-middle-of-nowhere %20No%20escape%20from%20hitching%20to%20the%20middle%20of%20nowhere.html VAK-15 - no escape from hitching to the middle of nowhere] (Originally published on 2011-10-26)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2011-entries/2011100910-trip-1-198009%20-%20Trip%201,%201980%20(and-as-a-bonus-trip-100-2011 %20as%20a%20bonus,%20trip%20103,%202011).html Trip 1, 1980 (and as a bonus, trip 100103, 2011)] (Originally published on 2011-10-09)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2011-entries/2011081308-raststatte13%20-hopping %20Raststätte%20Hopping.html Raststätte Hopping] (Originally published on 2011-08-13)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprinsorg/home/hitchhiking/prino-s-blog/older2011-entries/2011052805-numbers28%20-numbers-numbers %20Numbers,%20numbers,%20numbers.html Numbers, numbers, numbers] (Originally published on 2011-05-28)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.comorg/siteblog/robertahprins/home/hitchhiking/prino2011-s04-blog/older29%20-entries/20110429-inga %20Inga.html Inga] (Originally published on 2011-04-29)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.comorg/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhiking/prino-s-blog/older2011-entries/2011041404-so14%20-where-do-you-sleep %20'So%20where%20do%20you%20sleep'.html "So where do you sleep?"] (Originally published on 2011-04-14)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2011-entries/2011031303-looking13%20-back-on-2010-a-very-good-hitchhiking-year %20Looking%20back%20on%202010,%20a%20very%20good%20hitchhiking%20year.html Looking back on 2010, a very good hitchhiking year] (Originally published on 2011-03-13)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2010-entries/2010092009-close20%20-but-no-cigar %20Close,%20but%20no%20cigar.html Close, but no cigar…] (Originally published on 2010-09-20)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2008-entries/2008102210-a-trip-to-denmark-and-liechtenstein22%20-%20A%20trip%20to%20Denmark%20and%20Liechtenstein%20(way-back-in-2000 %20back%20in%202000).html A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (way back in 2000...)] (Originally published on 2008-10-22)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprinsorg/home/hitchhiking/prino-s-blog/older2008-entries/2008083008-records30%20-are-there-to-be-broken %20Records%20are%20there%20to%20be%20broken.html Records are there to be broken...] (Originally published on 2008-08-30)</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprinsorg/home/hitchhiking/prino-s-blog/older2008-entries/2008080508-a05%20-quick-trip-through-eight-countries %20A%20quick%20trip%20through%20eight%20countries.html A quick trip through eight countries] (Originally published on 2008-08-05</li> <li>[httpshttp://sitesprino.googleneocities.com/site/robertahprins/home/hitchhikingorg/prino-s-blog/older2008-entries/2008051505-oostende15%20-b%20Oostende%20(B)%20-de-bilt-nl-and-back %20De%20Bilt%20(NL)%20and%20back.html Oostende (B) - De Bilt (NL) and back] (Originally published on 2008-05-15)</li>
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<h4>Mentioned in a Master's Thesis</h4>
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<h4>On [http://vimeo.com/liveontheroad/videos Live on the road’s road's Videos] on Vimeo</h4>
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<li>[http://vimeo.com/40209632 Hitchhiking with the master]</li>
