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Revision as of 22:27, 30 October 2008

About

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Robert "prino" Prins is a 48-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the Netherlands, but now living in Oostende in Belgium.

His recorded hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 30 September 2008 he has hitched 268,235.4 km in the following 32 countries:

Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, Austria, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Ireland, Japan, San Marino, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia.

See details on his log of hitching trips.

He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough of French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.

Personal hitch-hike records/statistics

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  • Career distance: 268,235.4 km (as of 2008-09-30T19:23)
  • Best 24 hour: 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.
  • Longest ride: 2,502.9 km, from Platamon (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to Driebergen (Netherlands) (2009-08-15T12:54).
  • Fastest ride: 181.9 km/h (average speed!), from Raststätte Wildeshausen (Germany) (2002-05-01T03.28) to Raststätte Grundbergsee (2002-05-01T03:47). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!
  • Fastest trip: 7,943.3 km in 67:05 hours (actual driving time), from De Bilt (Netherlands) (1996-09-08T07:00) via Germany, Italy and Greece, to Culemborg (Netherlands) (1996-09-24T20:08).

Projects

  • He is the author of a set of programs to extract various statistics from notes made while hitchhiking.

On the web

Mentioned in a Master's Thesis

Auto-stop Approche géographique (Sylvain Viard, 1999)

On Abgefahren e.V.

A trip to Denmark and Liechtenstein (in 2000)
Records are there to be broken
A quick trip through eight countries
Oostende to De Bilt and back

On the website of the Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas

Back home from the 4th IHHC

On Suite 101

Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes

On Bernd Wechner's mirror of Suite 101

Thumbing Around: Robert Prins Writes

On Digihitch

Robert Prins (minuscule bio)

Random

The origins of "prino"?

The name "prino" 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.

Contact

  • Skype: madtruffi
  • HC/CS: prino
  • email: robert.ah.prins(a)gmail(d)com
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