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Michaelangelo from Bristol UK, now living in Madrid. Things that seem to help me with hitchhiking:-Signs with serif lettering.-A hi-vis/fluorescent jacket.- human, ukuleleist, meddler, wwoofer, walker, tea drinker, sunRolled-up sleeves/bare forearms.[http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.com/2019/09/precipitating-followerluck.html More...] 

Japan: 2959 3100 km moving between and around Shikoku, Shimane, Fukuoka, Kagoshima, the Amami islands and Yakushima (islands not included in total distance).<br />Much of this is detailed on my blog (March-May 2012 [http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.co.uk/2012_03_01_archive.htmlMarch-May 2012])<br />Longest lift: Fukuoka to Kagoshima (282km)<br />Longest wait: 6 hours in Yakushima.<br /> June-July 2014<br />9800 km Around Norway (started in Oslo), Germany and back to the UK.<br />This trip was inspired by and is dedicated to Taylor Booth. <br />74 lifts, average distance 132km.<br />Longest one-day distance: Oslo-Bremen (1045km)<br />Longest lift: Malmö - Cologne (795 km)<br />[http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.com.es/2016/01/archive-summer-hitching-2014.html Notes] June 2015Basel-Peckham [http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/basel-peckham-1000ish-km.html Notes] December 2015 Madrid-Lisbon and back [http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.com.es/2015/12/love-is-only-thing-you-get-more-of-by.html Notes] August 2016Madrid-London [http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/aman-part.html Excerpt] June 2017Madrid-Galicia and back [http://crustaceanambitions.blogspot.com.es/2017/06/galician-interlude.html] August 2018: Madrid-London and back. July-August 2019: 8000+km through France,Belgium,Holland,Ireland,Wales,England,Germany,Poland,Lithuania,Denmark,Spain.