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Hi Platschi! I tried to change the boxes but cause I didn't have a hitchwiki account when I wrote them , I can't edit them. The owner is anonymous. SoHey, find the city calles Jyväskyläwelcome to this User talk page. There are 3 thumbs in the mapFeel free to leave a note, the wrong texts are: "E63/9/23 westwards..." should be "E63/9/23 east- and southwards...". "West- and southwardsask questions or whatever..." should be "East- and southwards". I'm such an idiot sometimes :). Btw, do need some help translating the phrase book in Finnish? I could do that if it hasn't been done yet. Anyways, thank you for your help! Annika

Hey Ralf! Welcome on hitchwiki, cool to see you here :) I guess you have something more to contribute ;) --* [[Usertalk:MrTweekPlatschi/archive|MrTweekArchive]] 10:02, 25 June 2007 (CEST)

Another welcome! :) I'm looking forward == Bad Oeynhausen ==Hi Ralf. Have you never noticed the bay where drivers can stop, just after the traffic lights at the beginning of the Bay Oeyenhausen Bundesstrasse section? Looked like a nice place to your contributions! You hitchhike, which, however, we as the transit hitchers will never use, since we will probably never end up there. Although of course, you can ''sign'' messages on talk pages with <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>never really say never... --[[User:GuakaFverhart|GuakaFverhart]] 2014:4152, 25 3 June 2007 2009 (CESTUTC)

:HeyFrank, no, never seen that bay! Should check it next time,When you were hitchhiking in Serbia did you do a lot but mostly people just drive into town or towards Minden, so they're not even going to the end of camping? Itown. So for the lazy people, the first Shell station might be the best option as it'm a bit concerned s at the beginning when coming from the A2. And, about camping in places like Serbia and Croatiaus as ''transit hitchers'' :) , I got rides towards Oeynhausen several times now, where they apparently have unexploded mines still lying around in various places. Do you know if these are find it quite common and/difficult to get direct rides from Auetal for example to Osnabrück or if further most times. Also, when going east, the service station Grönegau sucks most of the areas are closed off or what?Thanks! :time for me (waiting nearly always >30min)It. Then better stick to the on-ramp Melle-Ost 4km before, it has a nice spot and lot'd be nice s of traffic going to camp out in Oeynhausen, where you then can ask at the wild first service station where there but I don't fancy having an s always busy :) But that'explosive' time!s probably just what I think about it... :) --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 14:38, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

::Hi Ralf. The bay to the east is just at the beginning of Bad Oeyenhausen, just after the end of the A30. It's logically at the beginning, how I remember there's a city map for people entering the town. Regarding Gronegau, thanks for the information. The one time that I stood there, 27.12.2008, I got away in 3 minutes and got a lift of 151 km to Zweidorfer Holz, according to my list. For me it was great so. I remember a Dutch couple with a nice discussion about discovering the simple ways of living in places... If you asked me, I would try to avoid Bay Oeyenhausen, but I've passed by no more than five-six times. --[[User:MyshkinFverhart|MyshkinFverhart]] 1208:2743, 17 August 2007 5 June 2009 (CESTUTC)

:::Hey Platschi! Thanks for your welcome message:) Sorry if I'm writing in Frank, just used the wrong place. I just discovered hitchwiki, what an amazing resourse! I am planning my first-ever hitchhiking trip bay a week ago and got a ride offer to Western Europe in April-MayLeipzig there within not even one minute. It is a bit scarywas traffic jam though, but Iworks pretty fine :) Indeed there'm finding s a lot of useful city map also; just put some little more information hereon the Oeynhausen article. As of yetIndeed you can avoid Oeynhausen, I donbut when going onto the A30 or coming from there it't have much s impossible not to contribute, but wait till I get through there! ;) --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 17:09, 24 October 2009 (UTC)===Liftpunt.Tk===Hi, fellow Dutch hitchhiker. There is a new discussion forum about hitchhiking in Dutch language. Discover it, and feel free to join and share your knowledge. First spot on the net where we can discuss in our own language =)) . URL www.liftpunt.tk --[[User:SkovorodkinFverhart|Serge KoshFverhart]] 2108:3643, 19 March 2008 5 June 2009 (CETUTC)

==SysopRussia ==We don't really have a policy about this, but MrTweek and I decided to "promote" some more people to sysops on the wiki. Of course we noticed your great contributions and decided to make you into a sysop :) Check [[project:administrators]] to read (a little bit) more about this. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] 21:08, 7 August 2007 (CEST)

Thanks! :) (Not sure if Sorry to hear you had such a hard time in Bashkiria. I'm posting my reply ve hitchhiked there and never waited more than 5 minutes, just like in the correct place hererest of Russia.) How was hitchhiking in the Balkans? Do If you recommend solo hitchhiking at all? Ididn'm starting to wonder if hitchhiking t get picked up by myself for my first time could be a bad idea and become lonelytruck right away, but I'm sure it would give me more opportunities for meeting was probably because you were too close to a DPS post, and truck drivers were too nervous to take two people along the way![[User:Myshkin|Myshkin]] 15:06, 13 August 2007 past it (CESTthey can only have one passenger legally).

thanks for welcome yep::Moin, quatsch, trampen is genau wie in Deutschland bspw. auch. Nur beim "raustrampen" aus Moskau wurd ich n paar mal gefragt nach Geld, bzw. es gibt halt auch "private Taxis" die rumfahren, aber das bekommt man direkt raus wenn man ne Richtung/Ort angibt/erfragt und die direkt nachfragen wieviel du zahlst. Aber sonst, more I'm hitching more I'm writingeasy peasy. --[[User:JonathaneoPlatschi|JonathaneoPlatschi]] 1718:0619, 2 October 2007 February 2010 (CESTUTC)

== Nice Hey thanks for the tutorial! As we are sending more and more people from the CS group, it makes sense to have something to orientate newbies. It's good to feel welcome ==the working cooperation here!--[[User:Perilisk|Perilisk]] 01:24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

HeyGoddamn, schade, dass das Treffen nicht ne Woche eher oder spaeter ist, an dem WE ist mein Bruder hier. Waere gern gekommen um fuer Finnland zu voten ;) Viel Spass euch!:N0id, du kannst auf [http://hitchgathering.org hitchgathering.org] voten! --[[User:Platschi|Platschi!]] 17:19, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

My pleasure writing to Hitchwiki== Nederlands ==Hoi Platschi - d'r is nu ook eindelijk een hitchwiki in het Nederlands: http://hitchwiki. The more people know, the better are the trips - more they travel and more drivers trust us org/nlAls je je Nederlands wilt oefenen ga ik dat graag verbeteren : )Let's make hitch-hiking big like "in the old days" some drivers mention [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23: 48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Merry Christmas Hallo Platschi! Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm excited to be apart of this awesome project! Yeah, I read the page for Texas - yikes. The state might not be so promising, but Austin is asking to be explored hitchwise. I'll see what I can do! Say Hi to the Netherlands and Germany for me! Wonderful and safe travelshappy adventures. :) - Safira (P.S. I'm not really sure where to put this response, so hope this is ok!Rein)

Hey :Dear Robert, a ''gas station'' is the American English pendant to ''petrol station'' used in Britain. As we have no specific regional English specified for this website, I guess ''gas station'' fits as well as petrol station. See [http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0328230#m_en_gb0328230] for an example. Nevertheless, installing a spelling checker might be useful, you're right. --[[User:Platschi|Platschi! Thanks for ]] 21:24, 6 November 2010 (CET)::If you have been following what I've been doing, you might notice that I stick to continental spelling, i.e. articles about Europe should mention petrol stations and motorways, articles about the welcomeUS can mention gas stations and highways. The only thing I have trouble with is metre/meter -message! centre/center. I myself prefer the American spelling, but I leave them as-is. [[User:Prino|Prino]] 22:37, 6 November 2010 (CET):::On the continent (not on the Islands) people usually use "highway" and "gas station", I hardly ever hear mainland Europeans say "motorways" or "petrol station" when they speak English, I actually had to look up the exact meaning when I am completely new saw it in contributing one of your edits... [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 23:04, 6 November 2010 (CET):Well,I never use the words petrol station or motorway while talking English. Maybe because I've never been to the UK. When writing articles I usually stick to the common language I use with drivers, mainly in wikisEastern Europe, but and here it's nice hard sometimes (if no common language available) to see even explain them the meaning of ''gas'' station, not to mention the word ''petrol''. The German-English mix of ''Tank Station'' sometimes helps wonders, though completely incorrect. I know it worksdoesn't look very aesthetic on the wiki if different words of the same meaning are in use everywhere. We can either start writing a short ''common language guide'' for the experienced users that are more into editing minor grammar and spelling mistakes, or just leave it as it is. I prefer the first, to have an overview about specific writing styles throughout the English wiki. I guess a great percentage of users here are no native English speakers, so mistakes are normal and quite reasonable. I'm really happy we have users like you who take care of correcting! See you some day --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 23:25, 6 November 2010 (CET)::I'll do a scientific investigation (among Belgians, Germans and whoever else I might encounter) next time I'm on the road, which will hopefully be sometime before the end of the month. I '''do''' know that asking for gas stations in Scandinavia will not be understood, and in Sweden, Denmark and Norway they talk about ''motorväg/motorvei/motorvei'') [[User:Prino|Prino]] 23:40, 6 November 2010 (CET): FWIW, I hear "petrol station" all the time among European hitchhikers, to the point where I've come to adopt the term myself although I grew up speaking US English. "Gas station" definitely feels out of place in real life Europe. "Highway" seems more common than "motorway" on the continent, though. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 06:39, 7 November 2010 (CET)::Ok, maybe I was wrong. Well, one term not yet mentioned is "tank station", sometimes used by Dutch speakers -and no I'm not proposing we would ever leave that in our articles ;) [[User: Guaka|guaka]] 14:15, 7 November 2010 (CET)cee::Science? [http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&cr=countryBE&safe=off&tbs=ctr:countryBE&q=%22gas+station%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= 6890 results for "gas station" from Belgium], [http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&cr=countryBE&safe=off&tbs=ctr:countryBE&q=%22petrol+station%22&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= 1070 results for "petrol station from Belgium], [http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cr=countryDE&tbs=ctr%3AcountryDE&q=%22gas+station%22&aq=f&aqi=g5g-s1g4&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ebe5277d802140aa 67600 results for "gas station" from Germany"], [http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cr=countryDE&tbs=ctr%3AcountryDE&q=%22petrol+station%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=ebe5277d802140aa 19900 results for "petrol station" from Germany]. No, not science, but it could be a factor to take into account :) [[User:Guaka|guaka]] 14:18, 7 November 2010 (CET)

::: OK if we're going that way, you also need to change the language to Dutch (or French): [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl= topics en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22benzine+station%22+site%3A.be benzine station (3,930)], [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22petrol+station%22+site%3A.be petrol station (295)] and [http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=lang_nl&q=%22gas+station%22+site%3A.be gas station (899)] Very few '''gas station''' results on the first returned page have anything to do with petrol stations...

Eh Thanks a lot, I was just at the same time reading and trying to create my first region table==free travels==Why did you [http://hitchwiki.org/en/index.. so it has been doubled. Way not managed to make it look like yours... anyhow I don't think I will ever try to make table or impossible things as such anymore. php?title=Template:News&action=historysubmit&diff=47755&oldid=47420 remove the great news about the Russian] stuff? [[User:MaplefantaGuaka|Maplefantaguaka]] 1800:2122, 30 December 2007 24 November 2010 (CET)BTW:Some authors from the AVP claimed their copyright on some content, my skype username is the same if that would ease talking..so we have to fix this issues first before starting to copy/paste everything :( See [[:ru:Обсуждение участника:Platschi]]. --[[User:MaplefantaPlatschi|MaplefantaPlatschi]] 1813:3220, 30 December 2007 24 November 2010 (CET)

==questions==::''- is this a riddle? i can not get this... ;-) --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 01:34Platschi, 27 February 2008 (CET)'':::''No, we just had a driver who was riding that fast. :-) [[User:platschi|platschi]]<small>^{[http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], [[user talk:platschi|wikitalk]]}</small> 14:03, 27 February 2008 (CET)'':::: ''By "riding fast", you mean "driving quickly". In English, "riding" is used to for bicycles, horses, or motorcycles, but not cars. Anyway, that is fast! :) [[amylin]]* Why do you make statistics about your trips ? Thx [[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 20:06, 27 August 2008 (CEST): hey, i don't know...gives me a good overview of times needed from place x to y, average rides on different routes etc. See for example Enschede-Hörstel, 60km,but inkl. border crossing,highway, no service stations, but nearly never takes me more than 1hour and almost approx. 3 lifts...and it's kind of addiction, collecting more and more kilometers ;D platschisite, wikitalk 14:00, 30 August 2008 (CEST) :: Of course you know that in that view, it will bring you some self-estimation but if you give that number for geographical studies, it become very useful, some people studi hitchhike they are searching that kind of numbers [[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 14:55, 2 September 2008 (CEST)

==Why do you work on Hitchwiki?Uruguay ==Hey Platschi, I'm curious to know, Yo! Check [[Hitchwikihttp:Why we work on Hitchwiki|why you work on Hitchwiki//nomadwiki.org/en/Uruguay this out]]? ! :-) I moved some general bits from Hitchwiki to there. In the future there will be more visible linking between these wikis so we can keep Hitchwiki more for hitchhiking stuff and Nomadwiki for the rest.-[[User:guakaMikael|guakaMikael]]<small>^{[http://guaka.org site], ([[user User talk:guakaMikael|wikitalktalk]]}</small> 12) 00:1419, 3 September 2008 23 December 2014 (CESTUTC)

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:WellHello Platschi, actually MrTweek uploaded the image to the wiki. But anyway, on German highways <br>Are you often see this sign, showing you to still involved in the next parking area with some sanitary building. Guess it was intended to be used on one technical administration of the highway articlesHitchwiki? If not, like [[A2 (Germany)]] or something. Just leave it there, wedo you know ''who''ll use it for sure someday ;) Nice work with the cleanup anyway :) is? Thanks!--[[User:platschiZenit|platschiZenit]]<small>^{[http://blogs.hitchwiki.org/platschi site], ([[user User talk:platschiZenit|wikitalktalk]]}</small> 00) 10:4258, 4 September 2008 3 November 2020 (CESTCET)

 == Mistake in the french hitchwiki ==HiZenit, I don't not really know if you have some admin rights in this wiki who currently does which technical aspect but I try, there is a big mistake in the french version. On the left there is Acceuil (=home) in the english version. It should be Accueil.--[[User:Kimdime69|Kimdime69]] 12:15, 15 October 2008 (UTC):Hey Kim, I called the police, they're fixing the problem ;) --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 12:37, 15 October 2008 (UTC)::Woop, woop that the sound of da police:) Ok cool I will sleep better tonight ;) --[[User:Kimdime69|Kimdime69]] 13:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC): Fucking french language :) --[[User:Terrehappy|MiSha]] 14:52, 10 December 2008 (UTC) == Log page ==Hi Ralf. Do you know if there is already an index page for hitchhikers logs? It could be created. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 22:21, 28 October 2008 (UTC):No, I guess not. Feel free to start a page, somethink like [[Hitchwiki:Logs]], with maybe an overview of all logs or where everyone can add his one :-) Cheers, --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 00:21, 29 October 2008 (UTC):: I just started one at [[Logs]] --[[User:MrTweek|MrTweek]] 14:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC) ==Categories==Hi! Your user page category has been changed to '''Category:Hitchhikers m in Germany''' because from now on this (along with the old Category:Hitchhikers) will be a standard categorization for hitchhikers on hitchwiki.org (see [[Category talk:Hitchhikers|this discussion here]] for the reasons of doing so). If for some reason you don't want to be categorized by country, feel free to delete country category on your page leaving only a standard Category:Hitchhikers. We hope you don't mind, though.  Happy hitching,  The hitchwiki team ==christmas & turkish trucks==Normally, they should not have off and drive as Muslims do not celebrate Christmas, but Eid al-Adha / Kurban Bayramı that was this year beginning of December. However, it might be that they do not drive to/from Christian places as the companies are closed there. I try to think of it and asked around the next couple of days as I will come up this route the next days. --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 18:36, 20 December 2008 (UTC) :Hey alex, thanks for picking up github repositories where some info! I'm starting folks work on the 27th, going via Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, towards BGwiki. For what I know is that Serbians celebrate christmas on 7 January, but Croatians and Bulgarians on 25/26th. Confusing! :) So maybe crossing Serbia might not be a problem. We'll see. Good luck on the last kilometers home, and please also report about current weather conditions in the Balkans! Cheers, --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 14:09, 21 December 2008 Contact me by email (UTC)::Sorry, I do not have any information about the trucks as I had none with a truck. However, hitching was fairly simple as everybody was in Christmas mood. Weather was fine (except for Turkey where it was raining when I wanted to startplatschi AT posteo DOT org) and the streets free, however, the week earlier there was a snow chaos and for the next days they report some snow in Eastern Austria... so check the news, plan short and organise accommodation in a couple of cities (e.g. Wien and Belgrade). Have now some nice days and then a good trip! --[[User:Alex|Alex]] 11:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC) == Schengen Picture ==I've updated the Schengen Agreement but I don t know where to get a new Picture with Schengen states (http://hitchwiki.org/en/Image:Schengen_map.png) Could guide you find one and updatee it? '''Fabzgy''':hey, just updated the image. Thanks! Got it from Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Schengen_Agreement_map.svg] :-) Unfortunately, we don't have this nice image label feature (yet), but who knows... further :) --[[User:Platschi|Platschi]] 15:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC)platschi