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=General Invitation=
==Hitchhikers Combine for a European Hitchhikers Festival!==
You're an experiences hitchhiker and you would like to meet up with many like minded people? Or you never tried before but always wanted to give it a try? Join us in the second edition of the European Hitchhikers Festival, taking place on the 7th of August 2009 in Odessa, Ukraine.
Last year we gathered 150 hitchhikers in Paris, from experienced experts to first-timers, to celebrate hitchhiking. We swapped stories, made lots of new friends and exchanged skills, tips and tricks. The event left us all with a great impression and happy memories and so we decided to meet up again this summer.
==Sign up & see who is coming==
Are you coming to the second European hitchhikers festival in Odessa or are you thinking about it? Sign up at http://www.the789project.com/user/register so we can keep you informed about the latest news. Here you can also find a list of all other people who have signed up already, if they are looking for a buddy to travel with, and from where they are traveling.
==Pre-meetings==
If you want to have even more fun, you can also organise a pre-meeting for 789 in the places through which we will travel or leave from. Organise one yourself, or join an existing one. Check the forum at http://www.the789project.com/forum.
==Why Odessa?==
In Paris there was so much enthusiasm for another festival that we decided to do it again. However, this time we ('we' being mostly hitchhikers based in Western and Central Europe) wanted to also meet people from Eastern Europe, Russia, and maybe even further, to make new friends and to exchange hitchhiking tips and stories. So, the event had to be organised outside of the Schengen zone.
Currently we have no fixed location in Odessa, but people are working on this. If you want to help, get in touch with us through http://groups.google.com/group/789-coordination or leave a message on the forum of our homepage http://the789project.com/
Hopefully see you in Odessa!
789, hitchhikers combine!
=June Newsletter=
