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Location for 2015 is going to be near '''[https://goowww.glgoogle.de/maps/KoCUv Stplace/44%C2%B049%2717.2%22N+4%C2%B045%2720.0%22E/@44.821441,4. 755558,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en Saint Laurent du Pape, A. Ardèche, South-east France]'''.GPS coordinates: '''44.821441, 4.755558''' We are 15 kilometers from the nearest motorway exit, A7 exit 17 (Loriol) between Valence Sud and Montélimar Nord. We are also 15 km from the service station “Aire de Portes les Valence” on the A7, between Valence Sud and Loriol. More hints how to get to the gathering on the main page http://hitchgathering.org/ !!
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==Main gathering location propositionOn site logistics=====To Do===* Dig shit pits (Really? I remember someone saying that there are dry toilets on site)* Set up a fireplace.* Talk to local businesses about sharing their trash.* Find big cooking pots and gear, bring onsite.* Put up direction signs from the motorway exit.* Check with our hosts whether we can buy some of the food they produce. Otherwise check with surrounding producers (just go to the local market and ask around the stalls).
There is likely to be many pregatherings scatered around Europe, leading towards the main gathering. We need to find out where that is first before building a network of smaller parties around it.===To have===
Already last year * Shovels (borrow from farm?)* At least 2 big cooking pot(s) at least (borrow from farm?)* Rope* A couple of rolls big plastic bags (not the idea was around massive ones, 30-50L is easier to have two main gathering, connected by a kind carry out).* Bunch of rallysoap-bars for toilets* Empty plastic bottles (esp. Leipzig and fontpedrouse are about 1600km apartthe big ones)* First aid kit* Paper, pens, with most of it being highways. Its a perfect route to do a lot of mileage in little timemarkers, two days maybe. We could for example start the hitchgathering in leipzig on the first of augusttape, then from the forth to the seventh (so not everyone has to leave at the same timeblack) continue it on the gasstation boards* Food in between leipzig and fontpedrouse and then open end at the hot poolsall sorts. The rules of the rally would be this: everyone hitches in a team of two. whenever you meet another teamBasic stuff like salt, oil, spices, if possible you have to stop and exchange one team member. -- [[User:Clem|Clem]] ([[User talk:Clem|talk]])
===Locations in the Poll=Communication==
====A. Ardèche, South-east France (+ Grenoble ?)=Online===
Suggested by lapouceuse====The website====
The spot is in [httpshttp://goohitchgathering.gl/maps/KoCUv Storg hitchgathering. Laurent du Papeorg].The spot would be perfect to spend some good time among us, organize workshops, prepare ourselves for some public actions that we could organize in Grenoble, a medium-size town where we could move just afterwards. Read below for more details.
The place It's a presentation site that is meant to explain the concept to the newcomer and an online window to the outer world. It's secondary purpose is a collective farm in south-east france, 20K to store the stuff from valence(south of lyon). About 15 people live there together, growing fruits andveggies, baking bread, making goat cheese for themselves and forsupporting local strugglesprevious gatherings.
I know them relatively well, I spent 3 weeks down there and since thenwe met quite regularly for some political actions and activitiesNeeds graphics.The place where they live is quite lost in Join [http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net the hills (not a good spotfor a gathering), but they own some fields in the valley closeby wheretheir main economic activities take place ; there are more or less 2-3hacultivated with apple trees, cereals and veggies, and a bigger "wild"area (that's where we could camp)mailing list] to help.
=====Logistics=====* I would say that 2-300 tents could easily fit, possibly more. They use to host events pretty often down there, and most of the logistical issues could be easily worked out :* Water : thereIt's 1ton tank that we can fill before the gathering with drinkable water (and refill if needed)* Electricity : small connection available, for charging cell phones but not much more* Toilets : 2 dry toilets are already built got Piwik and available* Collective spaces : they could lend us 2 big tents (12x5m), that in case of rain could become our collective spaces.* As far as food is concerned, some scouting is needed for finding good dumpster-diving spots ; there should also be a way to get some organic fruit&veggies from them in exchange for work (needs to be discussed).* The location is pretty nice, it's close to a small river with a beautiful stony beach where I already took many nice baths : )* The closest neighbours are quite faraway, we shouldn't have any problems about noise.* About the date, 2015-08-01 would be perfect, because at the beginning of September the whole place (except the cultivated areas) gets regularly inundated.* To get there by hitchhiking is quite simple, it's some 20k away from the A7, one of the biggest French highways (Lyon-Marseille), and people are cool, it's one of the most alternative regions in FranceSEO plugin.Anyone feels like optimizing?
Since logistics should go quite fast, organizing the gathering in this place would allow us, if Any chance we want to, to can have more energy left for preparing actions/workshops it in French too? - or just having a more relaxed everyday life - [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] ([[User talk:Sitarane|talk]]) 23: 35, 26 May 2015 (CEST)
=====Grenoble=The facebook====There's an [https://www.facebook.com/events/1568866916668980/ event] already. What else?
One more point, if - as suggested - we want to organize some actions intown, Grenoble is 100K far, it's a pretty alternative medium-sizestudent town, surrounded by beautiful mountains, with one of the biggestsquat scenes in france. I lived there 3 months and I would say that itcould be pretty easy to find local partners for actions, and thatfinding places for the night wouldn't be a problem.====BeWelcome====
====B[http://www. Lille Stensrud in Southern Norway====bewelcome.org/activities/1393 Activity]
Suggested by Warlo====Blogs====
This spot ([https://www.google.es/maps/search/lille+stensrud,+oslo/@59.8129116,10.8688326,189m/data=!3m1!1e3 List here -- south of Oslo]) offers a small lakeyour favourite travel blogger, unrestricted camping in the forest/by the lake with the closest neighbours being a Wagenplatz (occupied area where people live in trailers) and a squatMaybe if we tell them, both sympathetic to a hitchgathering. There is a good dumpster nearby and the possibility of getting bicycles from the squatters to go to further dumpsters. Some cons that have been voiced include the potentiality of bad weather, expensive alcohol (although [[User:Zenit|Zenit]] knows a nearby source for cheap greenery :-) and the distance to mainland Europe. Some pros are the great dumpsters, good neighbours, the promotion of hitchhiking in Scandinavia, a display of alternative life in Oslo (I hear the city needs they'll write about it) and indeed the distance to mainland Europe... after all, what kind of hitchgathering folks are afraid of the long road to Oslo?? :-)
* Are hitchhikers so effing reliant on cheap alcohol to have a great time? Yuck, yuck, yuck! [[User:Prino|Prino]]<small><sup>[http://hitchwikiwww.daquiali.org/prinocom/ blogDaqui ali], [[User talk:Prino|talk]]</sup></small> 15:26, 15 March 2015 (CET)
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===Further Old TextIRL===
====Leipzig, GermanyStickers====
I nominate Leipzig because that's where I live and I can do shit in advanceTo put up at HH spots, on your abandoned signs. .. wherever. Print-at- [[User:Sitarane|Sitarane]] ([[User talk:Sitarane|talk]])home type. We just need a design.
Leipzig is a 500,000 people town in East-Germany that main attractivity is that it's insanely cheap, there's always good shit going on and it's probably the only city in the world that has ''forests'' inside it. Good place to camp for us.====Flyers====
====Pros====* You can camp Print at home, leave in relevant spot in the your city, away from notice, thanks to the insane amount of forest between the neighborhood.* Cheap everything.* Full of punks. Free shops, free kitchen (Vokü), squats, you name it.
====ConsPress release====* Bad weather (Even in august, there can be cold and rain, though unlikely)
====Other====* It's a city.The early gatherings were all in cities, and seen as a Something we can spam the french media event: One hundred hitchikers converge on one place in Europe to show that hitchhiking is safe and good. Starting with Portugal, it has evolved into just meeting up and having a good time, away from civilizationfew weeks before. We could go back Needs to be in French. Will be hosted on the old paradigm, if only for the sake of doing things differentwebsite.
* It's in SchengenGood for Schengeners, bad for everyone else.==Archives==
===FontpedrouseYou'll find here the content that used to be on this page, France===See [[:nomad:Free_Hot_Springs#Fontpedrouse|nomadwiki]]but lost its relevancy. Suggested by Clemens. I Just copied some pieces from the mailinglist and nomadwiki. --[[User:N0id|N0id]] ([[User talk:N0id|talk]]) 18:26, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
* there's plenty of space to free camp (200 people should be fine), fresh drinking water, firewood, and a lot of people go there (its a bit like kara dere in this respect, not that many people actually, but also not as big a location). the hot springs should be big enough for about 30 people at a time, but can be extended.[[Hitchgathering/2015/Location suggestions]]
* Free camping and fire are no problem, but keep the place clean and take your trashes down to the village with you
* there's a local farmers market about 10km away, but not much local dumpster diving. its 75km from andorra (mountain roads, a doable one day return hitch if you start early), so people who pass by there can go dumpster some junk food (at least thats what i mainly found there) ====Pre and buy cheap booze. Post Gatherings====
* when clemens was there a year ago there was some guy camping there since 10months already together with fluctuating community of rainbow folks. they said that they were Post Gathering in contact with the owner of the land, who lets them stay there for free as long as they make sure that no one litters or trashes the placeMols (Denmark) 10/08 - 16/08
====Pros====* Camping and fire is not a problemLocation :* Hot springs (would be a first http:) ) ====Cons====* Shop / Supplies far away * No dumpster diving /udinaturen.dk/facilitet/Helgen%C3%A6s-- ACTUALLY it is possible and quite good.There is a Super U and a Lidl in Egat village. or nearby there. it's like 20 km from the hot springs which is not so bad and hitching is nice in that area anyway. U can also go shopping over there..Dragsmur/1514
==Date==Plenty of dumpsters around, easy hitchhiking, sea, wind and hopefully sun :D
Historically we have followed a numerology that dictates the next gathering should be on the 1st of August. This is the last year we can follow that tradition, but that doesn't mean we have to follow it.[[Category:Hitchgathering]]