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Robert "<strong>prino</strong>" Prins is a 54-year old hitchhiking grandfather of three, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <strong>recorded</strong> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 24 July 2 August 2014 at 1709:21 16 he has hitched 402403,048970.0 4 km in the following 33 countries:
[[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]], [[Slovenia]] and [[Andorra]].
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Famous for 15 minutes...]]
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<li><strong>Career distance:</strong> 402403,048970.0 4 km (as of 2014-0708-2401T1702T09:2116)</li>
<li><strong>Best 24 hour:</strong> 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte Hamburg-Stillhorn (Germany) (1989-07-05T24:00). This record can be found on page 179 of the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records, see the link from [[Hitchhiking World Records]] for full [[Prino%27s_24-hour_record|details]].</li>
<li><strong>Best 365 days:</strong> 37,304.1 km, from 2013-05-20T06:40 to 2014-05-01T21:34 - 347 days.</li>
The origins of "<strong>prino</strong>"?
The name "<strong>prino</strong>" was "given" to him in 1974 by his chemistry teacher, Eelco Hessling. When going through the names in his teachers notebook, he could not read his own handwriting, called "Robert Prins" !"Robert Prino". The name was taken over by a few of his classmates and has stuck ever since.
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