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'''''Hitchgathering''' is the name of a series of international hitchhiking gatherings held in Europe and Northern America ==Main Gatherings== ===Denmark - 1-14 August===* [[Hitchgatheringhttps://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=pugholmvej%2012%20lemvig#Past_events|since 2008]map=11/56.4987/8.1759 Location: Country Town in Lemvig].''* [https://framadatem.orgfacebook.com/events/hitchgathering2019 Here is a poll336997697234522 fb event] going on to find a location.==Main Gathering Proposals== '''The Place'''
===Denmark:
[https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=pugholmvej%2012%20lemvig#map=11/56.4987/8.1759 Country Town in Lemvig]===
https://m.facebook.com/events/336997697234522
===Kesselberg near Berlin!===
Everybody is invited to come to [https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24927395 Kesselberg] towards the end of July (or any other time really). We have: A lot of forest, very nice swimming, abundant dumpsters, and an anarchist village if you want to already experience the future first-hand ;-) Just ask for Carlos.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:European Hitchgathering August 2019}}
Some years ago, a woman called Lisbeth accidentally bought an entire village in western Denmark. She made it into a country town and announced herself the sheriff. She is the only one living there, but various groups of people show up for visits in the village every summer. We are invited! The danish hitchhikers have been visiting a couple of times, I joined too, once, and we had a really good time. The Sheriff herself believes in letting things run on their own and let the country town be as the people that are inhabiting it at the moment. It is a ghost town playground with lots of room for creativity. Improvements of the place in any sense are welcome. Sheriff Lisbeth was a hitchhiker herself and enjoys both road stories and live music. She has one plea, if we are going to have the hitchgathering in country town; that we don't ask her for permission and directions, but figure it out ourselves - it's the wild west! I told her that's how it always is anyways. It would also be nice, if we can help making the place better when we're there. There is a saloon with a bar and a lot of rooms upstairs. We can use the saloon if it rains and the bar is a great place to hang out. It's also a ghost town bar, so it's just the building, we will have to bring our own beer. Otherwise, there's lots of room for tents and we can make fire pits wherever we want. There's drinking water in the saloon. Dumbsterdiving was good the last time I was around, but 10-20 km away, meaning you would have to hitchhike to get there. Sheriff Lisbeth really hopes that if we come, we can hold a big western party one night.
* we're using somebody's resources. We can't just use all their firewood and give them a massive water bill without giving something back.
===Albania- 15-31 August===
* Space for 200. Check. Fullmmoon we were 250+
* Spring is 10 min walking, drinkin water
==Pre-Gatherings==
===La Borie near St Jean du Gard, France- 9 July===
"Hey everybody,
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===Kesselberg near Berlin - End of July==Mailing list= Everybody is invited to come to [https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/24927395 Kesselberg] towards the end of July (or any other time really). We have: A lot of forest, very nice swimming, abundant dumpsters, and an anarchist village if you want to already experience the future first-hand ;-) Just ask for Carlos. ===BeNeDeLux Pregathering Belgium - 26-28 July=== Heyho fellow hitchhikers! Since it looks like the main gathering in Denmark is save, I'm gonna propose a little pregathering in Belgium, right next to the German border and only a glimpse away from the Netherlands and Luxembourg! So it's perfectly on the way for travellers coming from the warmer, western parts of Europe! The venue is an abandoned camping ground with lots of caravans, so it's already a little taste for the empty country town in Denmark! It's also right next to a river and the well known Fenn cycle path. [https://osm.org/go/0DV4sB8Fk-?m= Exact location here.] See you soon :* Sven [https://www.facebook.com/events/555773364827118/ fb event] ==Post-post-post-gathering - Razana, Serbia== At the farm where we had [[Hitchgathering/2018|last year's gathering]], Western Serbia. ==Mailing list==
A new mailing list has been created: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/hitch
Unfortunately, the old mailinglist is down and it doesn't look like it will come back (http://lists.freeactive.net/listinfo.cgi/hitch-freeactive.net).
* FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hitchgathering/
