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'''Diego''', alias ''Gutuater'' comes from a tiny village in Northern Italy, which he left in 2006 at the age of 20, and has not stopped travelling since. He is been homeless and nomad since June 2009. Until October 2009May 2010, he was living on and off in '''Reykjavík, Iceland''', but is currently leading a purely nomadic life, somewhere in between Scandinavia, Iceland and Central Europe.

He lived in Italy, Germany, Norway and Iceland, and recently spent quite some time in Denmark too. He started hitchhiking only recently, in summer 2009 around Iceland, and in his yet short hitching career has thumbed through Iceland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. His best-thumbed countries are Iceland, Norway, Denmark , Germany, and Germany. Recentlyrecently, he spent 3 weeks in Japan, where he went from Nagasaki to Tokyo hitching rides for 1300km and soaking in hot springs along the way. The longest ride was overnight on a truck to Tokyo (500km).

He's fluent in '''Italian''' (native), '''English''', '''German''', and '''Norwegian'''. Less fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French, '''Icelandic''', Danish and Swedish. Can survive a basic conversation in French, Portuguese, Faroese and Dutch. He's desperately waiting for the right moment to learn a Slavic language. The best conversation was while hitching with a Faroese shepherd, speaking a mixture of Faroese, Icelandic, Danish and English.

After leaving Iceland and vagabonding in Iceland, Denmark and Sweden, and a 3occasionally Norway for some short-weeks parenthesis in Japanterm jobs, he temporarily relocated his base camp to VossLeipzig, Germany, Norway for a short-term job in a hostelthe summer. In April Summer 2010 he's hitching again on , you may see him hitchhiking around Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Czech, and across France all the ferry way down to Icelandthe Hitchgathering in Portugal. Eventually, coming back he is planning to relocate for a year to somewhere in May the Netherlands from September 2010. His big dream is to hitchhike to India and hitch around Eastern China, and Western come back to Europe until Augustwaving his thumb along the Transiberian railway.  Since it may become hard to keep this page updated, you'd better check this [[http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ek.hlewagastir%40gmail.com&ctz=Atlantic/Reykjavik|calendar]].