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[[File:DSC01806.JPG|right|thumb|300px|platschi hitchhiking in [[Turkey]]]]
[[Image:DSC01806.JPG|right|thumb|300px|platschi hitchhiking in [[Turkey]]]]
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[[File:Serbia_platschi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|platschi hitchhiking in [[Serbia]]]]
[[Image:Serbia_platschi.jpg|right|thumb|300px|platschi hitchhiking in [[Serbia]]]]
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[[File:P1010833.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Together with [[User:Korn|Korn]] in [[Uruguay]]]]
 
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==About==
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=== About ===
Platschi is an addicted hitchhiker from [[Hörstel]] (near [[Osnabrück]]) in the West of Germany. He tries helping to make the hitchwiki a great success. He is currently studying and living in [[Enschede]] in the [[Netherlands]] while speaking German, Dutch and English daily more or less fluent. During the semester he is hitchhiking the route [[Enschede]] to [[Hörstel]] nearly every weekend there and back.
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Platschi is a hitchhiker, moving around planet Earth. Currently settled in [[Mexico]]. From time to time you can read about his hitchhiking trips at [https://platschi.net/ this blog] in mostly {{de}}. A more or less complete statistical record of his trips can be found on [http://www.hitchlog.com/en/hitchhikers/platschi hitchlog].
  
You can read about his current hitchhiking trips at [http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi this blog].
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=== Contact ===
==Hitchhiking==
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For contact information, have a look [https://platschi.net/pages/kontakt.html/ here].
Platschi hitchhiked in the following countries:
 
  
[[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Italy]], [[Netherlands]] (2006)
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=== Hitchhiking ===
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Platschi hitchhiked through/inside the following countries (year = first hitch in that particular country):
  
[[Austria]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Hungary]], [[Denmark]] (2007)
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* [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Italy]], [[Netherlands]] (2006)
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* [[Austria]], [[Slovenia]], [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Hungary]], [[Denmark]] (2007)
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* [[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Belgium]] (2008)
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* [[Czech Republic]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Moldova]] (2009)
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* [[France]], [[Spain]], [[Portugal]], [[Morocco]], [[Western Sahara]] (2010)
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* [[Abkhazia]] (2011)
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* [[Luxemburg]] (2012)
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* [[Uruguay]], [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]] (2013)
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* [[Chile]], [[Peru]] (2014)
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* [[Slovakia]], [[Mexico]] (2015)
  
[[Poland]], [[Romania]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Belgium]] (2008)
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=== Planned trips ===
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* [[Pamir Highway]] / [[Central Asia]] (2017 or 2018)
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* The Far East of Russia: Yakutia, Tuva, Sakhalin, etc. (2018+)
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* Moon (2022+)
  
[[Czech Republic]] (2009)
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=== Statistics ===
 
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* Failed country: Tried to hitchhike in [[Bolivia]] in July 2014, giving up after realizing that traffic that day did not exist (and it was freaking cold)
==Planned trips==
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* Coldest position: On December 16, 2009 waited about 8 hours on the [[Latvia]]n - [[Russia]]n border at night at temperatures of about -30 °C. Pure fun! Realized only in the morning hours that traffic would only move after sunrise.
* Maybe May 2009: [[Berlin]]
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*The longest ride ever: 1443 km, [[пыша]] to [[новосибирск]], [[Russia]], 50 hours, one truck.
* June 2009: [[Karlsruhe]]
 
* July & August 2009: Around the Black Sea ([[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Georgia]], [[Russia]], [[Ukraine]])
 
 
 
==Statistics==
 
*The longest ride ever was from his village [[Hörstel]] via [[Amsterdam]] towards [[Milano]] ''(1276 km)'' by a courier driver who picked him up in [[Basel]] two days before giving him a ride towards [[Osnabrück]]. Crazy world!
 
 
*The fastest ride ever was together with [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] hitchhiking from [[Freiburg]] towards [[Hannover]], got a driver inbetween who was riding ''260 km/h'' on the German [[A7 (Germany)|A7]] highway.
 
*The fastest ride ever was together with [[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] hitchhiking from [[Freiburg]] towards [[Hannover]], got a driver inbetween who was riding ''260 km/h'' on the German [[A7 (Germany)|A7]] highway.
 
*The milestone of 25,000 km hitchhiking was reached on May 10, 2008 hitchhiking from [[Hörstel|Riesenbeck-Birgte]] towards [[Münster]] in a Smart Cabriolet. Amazing!
 
*The milestone of 25,000 km hitchhiking was reached on May 10, 2008 hitchhiking from [[Hörstel|Riesenbeck-Birgte]] towards [[Münster]] in a Smart Cabriolet. Amazing!
 
*The milestone of 50,000 km hitchhiking was reached on April 29, 2009 hitchhiking from [[Hannover]] towards [[Bad Oeynhausen]].
 
*The milestone of 50,000 km hitchhiking was reached on April 29, 2009 hitchhiking from [[Hannover]] towards [[Bad Oeynhausen]].
*In this '''[[User:platschi/log|logbook]]''' you can find the '''hitchhiking statistics''' from platschi.
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*The milestone of 100,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere in August 2010 on the road between Faro (Portugal) and Sevilla (Spain) hitchhiking with a Portuguese-Angolan lady.
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*The milestone of 150,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere between [[La Pedrera]] and [[Rocha]] on 25 January 2015 in Uruguay, together on the road with [[User:Korn|Korn]] after an absence of way too long on the road.
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Since May 2006 he hitchhiked in total around 154,996 km through [[Europe]], [[Asia]], [[Africa]] and [[South America]] (9/2015). A more or less complete record of his trips can be found on [http://www.hitchlog.com/en/hitchhikers/platschi hitchlog].
  
Since May 2006 he hitchhiked in total '''50,208 km''' through [[Europe]] and [[Asia]]. (May 02, 2009)
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* Old log: [[User:Platschi/log]]
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Revision as of 00:51, 20 June 2016

platschi hitchhiking in Turkey
platschi hitchhiking in Serbia
Together with Korn in Uruguay

About

Platschi is a hitchhiker, moving around planet Earth. Currently settled in Mexico. From time to time you can read about his hitchhiking trips at this blog in mostly (German). A more or less complete statistical record of his trips can be found on hitchlog.

Contact

For contact information, have a look here.

Hitchhiking

Platschi hitchhiked through/inside the following countries (year = first hitch in that particular country):

Planned trips

Statistics

  • Failed country: Tried to hitchhike in Bolivia in July 2014, giving up after realizing that traffic that day did not exist (and it was freaking cold)
  • Coldest position: On December 16, 2009 waited about 8 hours on the Latvian - Russian border at night at temperatures of about -30 °C. Pure fun! Realized only in the morning hours that traffic would only move after sunrise.
  • The longest ride ever: 1443 km, пыша to новосибирск, Russia, 50 hours, one truck.
  • The fastest ride ever was together with MrTweek hitchhiking from Freiburg towards Hannover, got a driver inbetween who was riding 260 km/h on the German A7 highway.
  • The milestone of 25,000 km hitchhiking was reached on May 10, 2008 hitchhiking from Riesenbeck-Birgte towards Münster in a Smart Cabriolet. Amazing!
  • The milestone of 50,000 km hitchhiking was reached on April 29, 2009 hitchhiking from Hannover towards Bad Oeynhausen.
  • The milestone of 100,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere in August 2010 on the road between Faro (Portugal) and Sevilla (Spain) hitchhiking with a Portuguese-Angolan lady.
  • The milestone of 150,000 km hitchhiking was reached somewhere between La Pedrera and Rocha on 25 January 2015 in Uruguay, together on the road with Korn after an absence of way too long on the road.

Since May 2006 he hitchhiked in total around 154,996 km through Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (9/2015). A more or less complete record of his trips can be found on hitchlog.