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<h4>On [http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/ Abgefahren e.V.]</h4>
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20081022/a-trip-denmark-and-liechtenstein-way-back-2000 A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (in 2000)]<br />
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080830/records-are-there-be-broken Records are there to be broken]<br />
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080805/a-quick-trip-through-eight-countries A quick trip through eight countries]<br />
[http://abgefahren.hitchbase.com/DE/blogs/prino/20080515/oostende-b-de-bilt-nl-and-back Oostende to De Bilt and back] -->
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<h4>On [http://www.digihitch.com/ Digihitch]</h4>
[http://www.digihitch.com/road-culture/hitchhikers-modern/996 Robert Prins (minuscule bio)]<br />
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1546.html A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (way back in 2000...)]<br />
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1503.html Records are there to be broken (or I love hitch-hiking in Germany)]<br />
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1483.html A short trip through 8 countries in four days]<br />
[http://www.digihitch.com/article1412.html Oostende (B) - De Bilt (NL) and back] -->
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Robert "<strong>prino</strong>" Prins is a 55-year old hitchhiking grandfather of four, 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 7 27 August 2015 at 712:40 30 he has hitched 453455,305218.9 5 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> 453455,305218.9 5 km (as of 2015-08-07T0727T12:4030)</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 calendar month:</strong> 9,936.4 km, July 1990 - 17 hitchhiking days, the [[De Bilt]] to [[Athens (Greece)|Athina]] part of [[User:Prino/log/log1990|trip 11]].</li>
<h2>Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li>He is an Executive Producer of "North", a short movie by Sarah Franke.</li>
<li>He is the author of a [http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hitching/files/Robert%26%2339%3Bs%20Programs set of programs] to extract various [[Keeping statistics|statistics]] from notes made while hitchhiking, a short description of them can be found on [[User:prino/pascal|Prino's Programs]].</li>
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<li>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130713201138/http://membres.multimania.fr/bpierret/memoire/memoire.html Auto-stop Approche géographique (Sylvain Viard, 1999)]</li>
</ul>
<h4>On [http://vimeo.com/liveontheroad/videos Live on the road’s Videos] on Vimeo</h4>
<li>[http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/Article/?31 Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes]</li>
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<h2>Daily life</h2>
In his daily life he is an analyst programmer with more than 29 nearly 30 years of experience in PL/I and somewhat less in DB2, CICS, REXX and IDMS. He is the author and maintainer of a set of [http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT769.zip REXX execs] that can be used to convert legacy languages into HTML. He is also, since February 2003, the maintainer of the mini-FAQ for the [news://comp.lang.pascal.borland comp.lang.pascal.borland] Usenet newsgroup.
He is currently unemployed. A CV is available on request.
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<li>email: robert(a)prino(d)org</li>
<li>Skype: prinox <!-- (or sometimes madtruffi)--></li>
<li>JustVoip: madtruffi</li>
<li>BeWelcome: [http://www.bewelcome.org/members/prino prino]</li>
