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My name Robert 'prino' Prins is Roberta 48-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], I'm Dutch and and right but now I live living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
Despite the fact that I'm now a double grandfatherAs of 30 September 2008, hitchhiking is still my favorite way of travelinghe has hitched 268, although I don't seem to have 235.4 km in the time to do a lot of it right now.following 32 countries:
I started in 1980[[Netherlands]], have now covered some 264[[Germany]],157.3 km[[Denmark]], averaging close to 10[[Sweden]],000 km per year during all the years that I hitched - in 1981 [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[Italy]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]] and 1984 I didn't[[Slovenia]].
I've done almost all my hitching in Europe, He is the two exceptions took place in 1990 (author of a [[Turkeyhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/hitching/files/Robert%27s%20programs/ set of programs]]) and 2001 ([[Japan]] - only '''to extract various statistics from notes made while hitchhiking. Some of his statistics were used inSylvain Viard's Master'' Japan, not '''to''' Japan)s thesis [http://membres.lycos.fr/bpierret/memoire/memoire.html Auto-stop Approche géographique] from 1999.
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