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| − | == About ==
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| − | Robert 'prino' Prins is a 48-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
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| − | His <span style="color:blue">'''recorded'''</span> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 30 September 2008 he has hitched 268,235.4 km in the following 32 countries:
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| − | [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[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 [[Slovenia]].
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| − | See details on his [[User:prino/log|log of hitching trips]].
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| − | He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough of French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.
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| − | == Personal hitch-hike records/statistics ==
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| − | * '''Career distance:''' 268,235.4 km (as of 2008-09-30T19:23)
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| − | * '''Best 24 hour:''' 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. [[Image:prino-guinness.jpg]]
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| − | * '''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (2009-08-15T12:54).
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| − | * '''Fastest ride:''' 181.9 km/h (<span style="color:blue">''average speed!''</span>), from Raststätte Wildeshausen (Germany) (2002-05-01T03.28) to Raststätte Grundbergsee (2002-05-01T03:47). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!
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| − | * '''Fastest trip:''' 7,943.3 km in 67:05 hours (<span style="color:blue">''actual driving time''</span>), from [[De Bilt]] (Netherlands) (1996-09-08T07:00) via Germany, Italy and Greece, to [[Culemborg]] (Netherlands) (1996-09-24T20:08).
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| − | == Projects ==
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| − | * He is the author of a [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hitching/files/Robert%27s%20programs/ set of programs] to extract various statistics from notes made while hitchhiking. Some of his statistics were used in Sylvain Viard's Master's thesis [http://membres.lycos.fr/bpierret/memoire/memoire.html Auto-stop Approche géographique] from 1999.
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| − | == Contact ==
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| − | * Skype: madtruffi
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| − | * HC/CS: prino
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| − | * email: robert.ah.prins(a)gmail(d)com
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| − | [[Category:Hitchhikers]]
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