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[[File:M_in_Reyk.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Marcus De]]
== About Me ==
My name is Marcus. I'm a musician living in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] but I'm originally from [[Lugau]], [[Germany]]. So far I've been hitchhiking in [[Australia]], [[Corsica]] the [[Czech]] Republic, [[Germany]], [[Hungary]], [[Iceland]], [[India]], [[Italy]], [[the Netherlands]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]] & the [[US]]. I've made lots of pretty amazing experiences with hitchhiking, that I wanna share with this page.
== Hitchhiking Journal ==
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Inspired by Elisa, my lovely roommate at that time, I chose to give hitchhiking a first try in 2010. I decided to go to [[Osnabrück]] to visit my girlfriend, who studied there at that time, but unlike usually chose to [[hitchhike]], rather than [[rideshare]]. Being overly happy about a guy saying, he's goin' North, I also immediately made my first [[Mistakes|mistake]]...
I started from [[Leipzig]] and would have gone {{Ade|14}} to [[Magdeburg]], then [[A2]] to [[Hannover]] -> [[Bad Oeynhausen]] then {{Ade|30}} to Osna - usually 4-6 hours driving. But instead I totally messed up that there are 2 highways going north -> {{Ade|9}} North to [[Berlin]] and {{Ade|14}} NorthWEST to [[Magdeburg]]. Of course there was no rest station to get off, once I realized, that Berlin is the wrong highway...
So I thought it'll be alright and I'll just get off at the last gas station (see Nr. 1 in Pic above) before the Berlin Ring Highway and ask around for whoever's goin West (Magdeburg).
Unfortunately it turned out, people would go a lot of different directions, into Berlin, [[Hamburg]], [[Rostock]], [[Stralsund]] and [[Frankfurt_an_der_Oder]] but nobody went West. Why? Everyone coming from Leipzig or in between would have taken the {{Ade|14}} directly.
So after asking around for quite long and going back into the gas station to check the maps a again, a man helped and told me I wouldn't find anyone. So -believe it or not- he went 45 min out of his direction to drive me to the next gas station on the {{Ade|2}} -> this time heading the right direction...
Funnily enough, and to prevent these things from happening again, he gave me his Atlas for the future - great guy!
Getting there it was already dark and so I only managed to go to Hannover that day. Luckily my brother lives there, so I crashed at his and proceeded the next day to Osna...
What a bad start - yet I've learned so much right away :)
- to be continued...
23.6.13: Just came back from hitchhiking from Budapest to Savona & from Bastia to Calvi + from Calvi to Bastia & from Livorno back to BP!
A great trip, with a lot of info for this wiki / for the maps... working on it :)
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10.6.14: Just came back from hitchhiking with my girlfriend from Budapest to and around Slovenia and back! <br>
27min in Budaörs<br>
35min in Velence<br>
1h53min in Szfvár<br>
5min in Lelle<br>
21:05 an in Lenart, Slo<br>
1h5min trying then sleeping in tent next to Gas Station<br>
just before leaving we got a whole bunch of cake from some old ladies in a full car :)<br>
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next day 14 min before getting a ride to LJ, also asked a policeman, without knowing he was one, he was confused, asked for my ID :P<br>
10 min in LJ -> directly our CS hosts in Medvode<br>
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two days later<br>
16 min in Medvode to Kranj<br>
7min in Kranj<br>
5min in Radovljica<br>
3 min at Exit Bled into town<br>
instantly another ride back to other side of town<br>
evening: hh to host<br>
next day evening: hh to host again :), same place<br>
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two days later, colder weather, way to piran<br>
2min in Bled at the exit<br>
21 min in LJ<br>
12 min in Postojna<br>
15 min in Koper <br>
took us to campsite in Piran :)<br>
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two days later<br>
1h25min in Piran incl. 2x15min walking<br>
17min in LJ<br>
20 min in Lenart<br>
1min in Pince on the SLO/HU boarder = basically instant ride to Nagykanizsa, a very bad place :|<br>
1h39 min with a lot of walking in the burning sun there<br>
7min at the roundabout in Balatonkeresztúr <br>
took us to campsite in Fonyód<br>
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next day<br>
26 min in Fonyód for a ride to Szántód<br>
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end :)<br>
http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/7_tage/7-Tage-per-Anhalter,sendung82258.html
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