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Trying (and failing) to hitchhike out of Maastricht, Netherlands.

Hitchhiker from the UK. Unhealthy love of statistics.

Adventure #1: The Gent Escape, August 2004

Adventure #2: Home to Home to Home, June 2006

Adventure #3: Jedzie Pan do Wrocławie?, June 2006

Adventure #4: AWOL in Europe, July-September 2006

Adventure #5: Bummit to Belgrade, March-April 2007

Distance travelled: 8858km of which 4977km hitchhiking alone, 2068km with one other hitchhiker, and 1813km hitchiking in a group of three

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

Longest journey in 24 hours: 1042km, Rome, Italy, to Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2006

Countries hitchhiked (in order): Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic, Slovakia

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 certainly 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, causing us to fail the Bummit to Belgrade competition

Best hitchhiking spot used: Brunautal West (A7 services) in Germany, where three cool Danish guys dropped me off in front of around 200 hard rock fans going home from the Wacken festival. I could pick and choose... the only way the situation could have been better is if I was amongst a crowd of hippies.

Worst hitchhiking spot used: an empty motorway junction outside Meerane (near Zwickau), Germany. All hope seemed lost. Whilst I was thankful to the previous driver for going 50km off his route, he did it so as to drop me off in the most useless place he could find

Biggest moment of genius: none. In this era, your average hitchhiker has a few screws loose

Biggest moment of stupidity: spilling freshly squeezed orange juice onto my rucksack and sleeping bag whilst trying to thumb down a VW camper van outside Jönköping, Sweden on a hot, sticky afternoon. The van didn't stop and I had to grudgingly trudge back to Jönköping centre, wash out my equipment and catch a bus