User:Gutuater
Diego, alias Gutuater comes from a tiny village in Northern Italy, which he left in 2006 at the age of 20, and has not stopped travelling since. He is been homeless and nomad since June 2009. Until May 2010, he was living on and off in Reykjavík, Iceland, but is currently leading a purely nomadic life, somewhere between Scandinavia, Iceland and Central Europe.
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Experience
He lived in Italy, Germany, Norway and Iceland, and recently spent quite some time in Denmark too. He started hitchhiking only recently, in summer 2009 around Iceland, and in his yet short hitching career has thumbed through Iceland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. His best-thumbed countries are Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, and recently, Japan. The longest ride was overnight on a truck to Tokyo (500km).
Languages
He's fluent in Italian (native), English, German, and Norwegian. Less fluent in Spanish, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish. Can survive a basic conversation in French, Portuguese, Faroese and Dutch. He's desperately waiting for the right moment to learn a Slavic language. The best conversation was while hitching with a Faroese shepherd, speaking a mixture of Faroese, Icelandic, Danish and English.
Plans
After vagabonding in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden, Germany and occasionally Norway for some short-term jobs, he recently relocated his base camp to Amsterdam, where this time he will stay for a long time. In Summer 2010, you may see him hitchhiking around Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Czech, and across France all the way down to the Hitchgathering in Portugal. His big dream is to hitchhike to India and China, and come back to Europe waving his thumb along the Transiberian railway.
Since it may become hard to keep this page updated, you'd better check this [[1]].
Interests
Primarily a linguist, he's interested in vegetarian/vegan/macrobiotic cookery, ethnology, religions, street music, primitivism, alternative and sustainable living, beer(s), organic agriculture and self-sufficiency.
Contributions
Hitchwiki, StealThisWiki [2]
CouchSurfing Profile
Contact
Norwegian mobile +47/96709208
Danish mobile: +45/50106027
Icelandic mobile: +354/8416623
German mobile: +49/1602258316
Skype: lostinthenorth
E-mail: ek.hlewagastir(at)gmail.com
Pictures: [4]
Blog and Travelog: [5]
