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Podz is a Hitchhikerwho lives in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, a small village near Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After graduating from the Dutch High School, I decided to take a gap year and started travelling/hitchhiking. In these six months, I hitchhiked around 8.600 km, from Amsterdam to Istanbul, through Turkey and Iran and via Armenia and Georgia across the Black sea to Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, to end my trip in Hamburg. It was the best experience of my life. Stats:Amsterdam - Berlin ~ 670 kmBerlin - Dresden ~ 195 kmDresden - Prague ~ 152 kmPrague - Bratislava (and getting stuck near Brno) ~ 330 kmTârgu Mures - Bucharest ~ 338 kmIstanbul - Canakkale ~ 503 kmIran desert Trip (Yazd - Chupanan - Khur - Mesr - Tabas - Kerman) ~ 1.260 kmYazd - Bandar Abbas ~ 685 kmArmenian/ Iran border - Yerevan ~ 370 kmYerevan - Gyumri ~ 125 kmTblisi - Batumi ~ 370 kmOdessa - Kiev ~ 475 kmKiev - Gomel ~ 265 kmMagilyow - Minsk ~ 200 kmMinsk - Vilnius ~ 190 kmVilnius - Riga ~ 291 kmRiga - Tallinn ~ 310 kmHelsinki - Tampere ~ 179 kmTampere - Vaasa ~ 240 kmUmeå - Uppsala ~ 570 kmStockholm - Copenhagen ~ 659 kmCopenhagen - Hamburg ~ 473 km Shortest ride: 3 km, from the ferry port to the town of Holmsund (Sweden)Longest ride (km): 612 km, Stockholm - Malmo Longest ride (time): around 10 hours, Armenian/Iran border to Yerevan. Although only around 350 km, the road was in a very bad condition, the truck didn't have good tires, it was snowing and very mountainous. But the driver was incredibly nice!Warmest hitchhiking day: Yazd - Bandar Abbas (probably around 25 degrees)Coldest hitchhiking day: Minsk - Vilnius, around -25 degrees in a snow stormEasiest country to hitchhike in: ArmeniaHardest country to hitchhike in: Sweden (I had to give up HH in Uppsala and take the train)Awesomest ride 1: German guy who let us stay in his house for the night near Braunschweig!Awesomest ride 2: Guy who organises Positivus Festival (biggest festival in the Baltic countries) and showed me around the festival terrain!Awesomest ride 3: Belarussian guy who waited with me in the snowstorm and insisted he wouldn't leave until I got a direct ride to the border with Lithuania!Of course I am grateful for everyone who took the time to help me out while I was standing next to the road.
