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==Pihlajakoski, Finland==
Status: CONFIRMED'''Confirmed'''
The Hitchhikers' Midsummer party will take place 20-22 June, 2014, in Pihlajakoski, Central Finland (between Kuhmoinen and Jämsä), 200 km north of Helsinki and 110 km east from Tampere. Hitching should be relatively easy, even if the last 8 km is nothing but dirt roads. It is an old farm which includes several buildings, one with electricity. There is space for camping on the yard so bring a tent (or a hammock) and a barn if you rather sleep on top of hay like in old Finnish movies.
Midsummer Solstice (Juhannus in Finnish) is a traditional party-day in Finland when people flee the cities and go to their summer cottage, warm up the sauna, put up a bonfire, drink excessive amounts of alcohol, run naked in the fields, fight, kiss and make up, and finally drown in the lake while pissing from the rowing boat. We will extend that to a three-day party and enjoy getting together with our hitchhiker-family (and try not to drown and fight). Both fresh and seasoned hitchhikers are welcome, with or without alcoholic beverages.
There is a spring nearby which will provide us with fresh water and next to it is old smoke sauna. No neighbors neighbours near, so yell as loud as you like. None of these buildings have working toilet or shower. No outside toilet either. The nearest (super expensive) shop/bar is 4km away so come prepared! Sharing is caring.
There is place to swim 200 meters from the main building. 800 meters more and there is a small cabin with sauna for us, just 3 meters from the lake. There is also outdoor toilet, gas stove and place for making fire. Please behave. No drowning allowed! Neighbors Neighbours are pretty close but they are probably having parties as well.
The map (A for the shop, B for accommodation, C for the party): http://goo.gl/maps/xJNlsKQSte
Same event in CouchSurfing: http://bit.ly/1fn3Eha
==Qeparo fshat, Albania==
The main hitchgathering this summer will most probably take place there.
Qeparo Fshat is a village in the [[Albania]]n cost 40 minutes walking up the hill from the main road and from the beach.
Once in qeparo ([https://maps.google.com/maps?q=qeparo+fshat&ie=UTF-8&ei=RZopU9TVBILLtQaR4IGwCg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg map]) , which is a village on the cost, ask people how to go in the upper Qeparo (Qeparo fshat). The road will lead you in the center of the village where there is a tinny bar and right behind the bar you can see the place.
From Facebook : "When i was there I talked to the people of the bar (to someone's concern: The bar is really tiny and not crowded at all, only old people living there frequent it) and I kept contacting the lady from there who's name is IDA (look for her when you get there and she will show you the place for the camping), I said is begining of August and is everything fine with them even if we go earlier. Qeparo is on the cost and very famous village just after Himare. but the spot is up on the hill and we need to talk for ~40min (once in Qeparo ask people for QEPARO FSHAT/QEPARO I SIPERM and they will show you the way), is very easy to find since is only 1 road bringing there and it brings you to the bar in the center of the village. https://www.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&t=m&oe=UTF8&msa=0... the place is easy reacheble from Tirana as from from Greece."
[https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/permalink/821688491178052/ Discussion and images]
Open Street Map : [http://osm.org/go/xekCg5Z--?layers=C&m=]
===Contacts===
The village (Qeparo Fshat) seems to be just a few kilometers south of the village (Himare/Himara) where there is a guesthouse run by a nice and helpful couple. So if we really need somebody in the area (maybe for legal/organizational issues?), contact them :
https://www.facebook.com/HimaraHostel
===Other places in Albania===
* Near Lezha
Këneta e Vajinit (not everybody will know where it is, only people from Lezha). It's a lagoon through you which you can walk or drive in a bad road to get to the sea. Not many people there. Old Military buildings, that one maybe can try and have a look in. There is a really good place to eat cooked albanian meals called Diella. Ask for the place. The woman working there is great. Great fish.
Mosquitos in the lagoon but less at the sea. Frogs and ducks and sometimes people that want to kill ducks.
Theoreticaly you have to pay 5 euros for the car to enter in the lagoon , 0 for People but you can also walk from the main road throgh the lagoon wich is beautiful to get to the sea.
Water: there are some places to eat there which you can ask for water.
*Ran e hedhun
Also near Lezha. I don't think it is a good place to camp but is a good place to walk on mountain of sand.
* Plazhi I gjeneralit near Durres than try to go tek caresha
Wonderful beach, wonderful water, wonderful nature and small mountains directly at the sea. Olives. Only few people know this place. You have to get a hitch for an hour or so from the main road through some small villages in a ok road. Not many cars.
Plazhi I gjeneralit has people and wooden cabins etc. you can also eat good fish there. But tek caresha there is nobody. You will have the all beach for your self.
Problem: the villages are a bit far, so you should take a lot of stuff with you.
*South near saranda and himara
You can do beach hopping there because there are a lot of beautiful beaches.
Problem : full of people , everybody knows them
==Kupari, Croatia==
- Tent/hammock or other camp setup. Sleeping bag may not be redundant but not necessary either.
- Food like Rice, Lentils, nuts, beans and other sustaining staples that will minimize the amount of food runs we need to do will be quite handy. Big bags of it I dare say rather than 250 grams of lentils or something.
- Instruments and laughter
- Tarp to create a rain/sun proof shared area for hanging out and possibly sleeping.
- A sense of not expecting any authority to tell you what you should do, we are wanderers and we are free.
- Love, this word that encompasses so much. Anything from a smile to a helping hand. From picking up a shovel to dig a new shit-pit to arranging a food-run if needed. Love, to make this gathering as magical as it possibly could be.
[[Category:Hitchgathering]]
