Hitchgathering 2011 is the temporary title for the fourth edition of the annual European hitchhiking festival.
Contents
Organisation & Discussion
- communication is done via the Hitch mailing list
- you can help by signing up for tasks on the todo list
Latest News
- workshops and events are under discussion, for now place your suggestions here: Hitchgathering/2011/Workshops
Timeline
- Organisation meeting in Magdeburg: 1.-3. of April
- The gathering: 5/8/11
Evaluation
- We are working on Evaluation of the 6810. Add your comments here: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchgathering/2011/Evaluation
- make organisation more vissible on hitchgathering.org: atopia
preparatory work for the Magdeburg Meeting
- outreach to invite interested people to participate at the premeeting/workshop
- write a newsletter
Arty stuff
- new logo's and stuff
website stuff
- change small stuff into the new year (header)
- make new profile-info for 2011 (joining 2011)
- and copy the views of 2010 to 2011 and change them on views and block-page (first clone, then change)
- take away slogan thing under header; change on block-page.
at the gathering
- organize some nice events and workshops: Hitchgathering/2011/Workshops
Location
Bulgaria --Boyan
The gathering will take place in Kara Dere, Bulgaria. Below is the description for the proposal.
Quite big national hitchhiking society. Local support is a snap. Hitching is a blast. Exact location: The Black Sea, Kara Dere (near the city of Biala)
Coords.: 42.892231,27.899687
Have a look at Pictures of Bulgaria
Pros
- huge remote beach
- water supply from a spring on the beach (The issue of drinking water: There is a natural spring right on the beach. The only insignificant con is that the nice camping areas in the forest are a bit further on the beach on a 15 mins walk from the spring. But 10 liter tubes do a great job and daily "trips" are just a walk on the beach)
- perfect shade, as the beach borders with a marvelous forest, where it's cool all day long and in the night it's not windy and sandy
- people there are generally nice
- cheap!
- equally near to (between) the two biggest cities (Varna, Burgas) on the coast line.
- close to turkey
- small "bar"(caravan) for beer, fish&chips, etc. on one end of the beach
- few to none about the mosquito issue
- the trumpet festival at Guča happens the week after 5/8/11, just 850km to the west
Cons
- 40 mins walk on a dirt road to the nearest village for food supply (quite easy and pleasant though)
- There are cars passing by as well on this dirty road, so they can at least bring the bags with food.
- project for closing the area and building an "Eco Village" (decision and deadline unknown yet)
- language barrier?
- I guess there are as many hhikers who don't speak Bulgarian as hhikers who didn't speak Portuguese. And I guess there are a lot more Russian speakers in Bulgaria than English speakers in Spain.
- language barrier is absolutely no problem, everybody knows what the thumb means, also city's names on road signs are nearly always in Cyrillic and Latin.
- Many campers in summer
- Forget about dumpster-diving here