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'''''Hitchgathering''' is the name of a series of international hitchhiking gatherings held in Europe and Northern America [[Hitchgathering#Past_events|since 2008]].''
 
==Main Gathering Proposals==
 
===Denmark===
Some years ago, a woman called Lisbeth accidentally bought an entire village in western Denmark. She made it into a country town and announced herself the sheriff. She is the only one living there, but various groups of people show up for visits in the village every summer. We are invited! The danish hitchhikers have been visiting a couple of times, I joined too, once, and we had a really good time. The Sheriff herself believes in letting things run on their own and let the country town be as the people that are inhabiting it at the moment. It is a ghost town playground with lots of room for creativity. Improvements of the place in any sense are welcome. Sheriff Lisbeth was a hitchhiker herself and enjoys both road stories and live music. She has one plea, if we are going to have the hitchgathering in country town; that we don't ask her for permission and directions, but figure it out ourselves - it's the wild west! I told her that's how it always is anyways. It would also be nice, if we can help making the place better when we're there. There is a saloon with a bar and a lot of rooms upstairs. We can use the saloon if it rains and the bar is a great place to hang out. It's also a ghost town bar, so it's just the building, we will have to bring our own beer. Otherwise, there's lots of room for tents and we can make fire pits wherever we want. There's drinking water in the saloon. Dumbsterdiving was good the last time I was around, but 10-20 km away, meaning you would have to hitchhike to get there. Sheriff Lisbeth really hopes that if we come, we can hold a big western party one night.
 
PROs:
* Legal
* Drinking water available
* 3 km from the beach
* dumbsterdiving is usually quite good in Denmark
* great sheriff
* possibility to go inside
* lots of stuff to do
* possibility to wear cowboy hats everyday
 
 
CONs:
* Denmark is expensive
* summers are quite often rainy
* it will be windy on the coast
* quite far to an open bar and to nearest grocery store
* we're using somebody's resources. We can't just use all their firewood and give them a massive water bill without giving something back.
 
 
===Albania===
* Space for 200. Check. Fullmmoon we were 250+
* Spring is 10 min walking, drinkin water
* No dumpster diving, food is cheap because its Albania. Specially fruits and veggies. Easy to reach by hh, complicated by bus (strange timeschedules/ not predetermined) Secluded. On an olive tree forest.
* It belongs to some people, but they said they didnt mind the other 3 times we did the rainbow. Just dont harm the trees and land. Shit-pit paradise.
* Ill be there the entire July, will help with beginning/seedcamp.
* The place is very good as its tried already.
* Coordinates: Dropped pin, Near Vlorë County, https://goo.gl/maps/f48c7ZPxQumSD3Eu8, 15min walking north the beach from Bunec beach
 
===Pre-Gatherings===
 
====La Borie near St Jean du Gard, France====
"Hey everybody,
 
for about 30 years there has existed a squat called La Borie. Situated
in the heart of the Cevennes with lots of forest and a beautiful river
and many nice and colourful people coming through all the time. Now the
commune (municipality) of St Jean du Gard who legally (pfff) owns the
land has apparently finally gotten their shit together to evict the
place and to make something else out of it that involves private
property and profits and liability and insurance and most essentially of
all wearing swimming shorts while dipping into the river... the eviction
date is July 9, and not coincidentally at all La Borie invites you and
all of your friends and all of their friends etc. for a Semaine du
Camping Ecolo Gratuit -- a week of free ecological camping -- beginning
from July 9. There will be plenty of music and dumpsterdived food and
nice people to dip in the river with and maybe some riot cops with
home-made cakes. (If you're worried about police exposure, you can very
much still come in support and get out of the way before things heat up
too much.) So if you're in the area or if you don't have anything better
planned for this week, I very much recommend that you consider dropping
by :-)
 
location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/44.12867/3.88525
"
 
 
 
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