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===[[Europe]]=== | ===[[Europe]]=== | ||
[[Belgium]], [[France]] | [[Belgium]], [[France]] | ||
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| + | ==The stats== | ||
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| + | ''Longest lift:'' I think it's '''352km''', through Germany from [[Inntal Ost]] ([[A93_Germany|A93]] services) to [[Pforzheim Nord]] ([[A8_Germany|A8]] services), September 2006 - and by the goodest good golly gosh were we grateful for it | ||
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| + | ''Furthest distance in 24 hours:'' '''1042km''', from [[Rome]], Italy, to [[Lausanne]], Switzerland, August 2006 | ||
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| + | ''Most useful lift:'' Gabor the Hungarian, who picked us up at Pforzheim Nord and didn't care where he was going - he wanted to be a personal taxi service. So we got him to take us to a mate's house in [[Kelkheim]], 177km away. Although neither of us trusted him, and he tried to abduct my travelling partner, it was one hell of a useful lift | ||
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| + | ''Least useful lift:'' the Slovakian white van man who took us to the wrong side of [[Bratislava]], on the wrong motorway and facing in the wrong direction, making us fail the Bummit to Belgrade competition | ||
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| + | ''Most fun lift:'' after being stuck for 3 hours, a lift from Rennes to Paris. Spent 6 hours in a classic volkswagen van from '76 with a cool hippie girl driving through small villages and countryside | ||
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| + | ''Best scenery:'' the area around Cancale and St-Malo in France. Thanks to a very friendly doctor who droves us for more than one hour accros a coastline with beaches, clifs and oyster farms. | ||
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| + | ''Shortest time waiting:'' 30 seconds near the town of Beauvais, France | ||
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| + | ''Longest time waiting:'' 3 hours at Rennes, France | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 18 September 2008
Hitchhiking Experience
Europe
The stats
Longest lift: I think it's 352km, through Germany from Inntal Ost (A93 services) to Pforzheim Nord (A8 services), September 2006 - and by the goodest good golly gosh were we grateful for it
Furthest distance in 24 hours: 1042km, from Rome, Italy, to Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2006
Most useful lift: Gabor the Hungarian, who picked us up at Pforzheim Nord and didn't care where he was going - he wanted to be a personal taxi service. So we got him to take us to a mate's house in Kelkheim, 177km away. Although neither of us trusted him, and he tried to abduct my travelling partner, it was one hell of a useful lift
Least useful lift: the Slovakian white van man who took us to the wrong side of Bratislava, on the wrong motorway and facing in the wrong direction, making us fail the Bummit to Belgrade competition
Most fun lift: after being stuck for 3 hours, a lift from Rennes to Paris. Spent 6 hours in a classic volkswagen van from '76 with a cool hippie girl driving through small villages and countryside
Best scenery: the area around Cancale and St-Malo in France. Thanks to a very friendly doctor who droves us for more than one hour accros a coastline with beaches, clifs and oyster farms.
Shortest time waiting: 30 seconds near the town of Beauvais, France
Longest time waiting: 3 hours at Rennes, France
