Hitchgathering/2011

Hitchgathering 2011
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Hitchgathering 2011 is the temporary title for the fourth edition of the annual European hitchhiking festival.

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We are working on Evaluation of the 6810. Add your comments here: http://hitchwiki.org/en/Hitchgathering/2011/Evaluation

Deadline

Let's set a date for the next one and from there, go back in time and set a couple of deadlines for stuff to get done.

1. Have a location (city level): 15 december
2. The gathering: 5/8/11

Comments

• 5 August is fine, it's a Friday and in context with the previous versions. Pro! --Platschi 16:15, 26 September 2010 (CEST)

Location Hunting

Have requirements for the suggestion of places

• Person that suggests a spot becomes responsible on setting up a team to organize it there.
• Pros and cons
• Central or more adventurous destination?

If you have a place where you know 100-150 hitchhikers can be hosted and you can take care of making sure there is local support (also just by finding someone locally that wants to take care of this part), please, list the location. :)

Suggestions

For now, let's display the first suggestions first.

Bristol -- xo

Pros

• 100-150 hh can easily be hosted in squat like The Red Factory or other, a squat could even be open if needed.
• There is also enough food for everyone in the large population of dumpster in the city.
• Most of the Noborder activist in Calais are people from Bristol, as most hitch-hiker would pass by Calais maybe some action in collaboration could be made.
• Huge number of contact (including local media) and local support with individual and different group.
• Central (It's very close to London, the north of France, Ireland and Benelux) AND more adventurous destination, You've got to cross the channel fuck yeah boat hitching !
• The beer is great, and you're supposed to drink it warm (which we WILL do)

Cons

• UK Immigration polities and visa issue

Worse than Schengen? Anyway, people going to UK HHing must also get Schengen pass... --Sitarane

• You've got to cross the channel
• HH sucks in Britain.
  • What a load of bullshit, I've done over 60,000 km in the UK and it works, even for someone well over the age of the average hitchhiker. See the table below! Prino 22:38, 29 September 2010 (CEST)

   +------+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+
   |      | Waits <= 1 hour           | Waits > 1 hour            | Total                     |
   |      +------+---------+----------+------+---------+----------+------+---------+----------+
   | Cnty |    # |    Time | Avg Wait |    # |    Time | Avg Wait |    # |    Time | Avg Wait |
   +------+------+---------+----------+------+---------+----------+------+---------+----------+
   | GB   |  471 |  210.17 |  0:26:47 |  138 |  242.24 |  1:45:23 |  609 |  452.41 |  0:44:36 |
   +------+------+---------+----------+------+---------+----------+------+---------+----------+

• Rain
• Expensive
• Doesn't qualify as "central for a big gathering" nor "far and more adventurous". It's far and boring.
• Beer sucks

Lyon --Sitarane

Pro

• There's that place that looks cute, I'll go and check it out this week-end probably. --Sitarane

Parc de MiribelMap, Website

• For some reasons that I can't begin to understand, travelers love France. It can attract many people.

Con

• France again? We already had Paris!
• French drivers have too much testosterone
• Too much in the west
• Too expensive
• Schengen...

Scandinavia --atopia

Pro

• let's have a 888ish meeting again: it's about time for an easy destination as hitchhiking is best promoted by many hitchhikers
• A new+missing geographical direction of Europe (888:West, 789:East, 6810:South, -> 5811:North)
• A different type of setting: we had beach-gatherings for the last two times
• Another cultural part of Europe (compared to Italy, France vs. Portugal)
• Hardly any language barrier for English speakers
• Easy to hitchhikeTemplate:Citation needed
• A whole range of options from Denmark to Finland
• The privilege to camp wild for a day in most places
• Can include ferry/boot hitchhiking

Con

• Mosquitos?
• Too expensive
• Schengen
• No places + local contacts yet (but we do know some sweet folks from Scandinavia)

Bulgaria --Boyan

Quite big national hitchhiking society. Local support is a snap. Hitching is a blast. Exact location: The Black Sea, Kara Dere (near the city of Biala)

Pros

• huge remote beach
• water supply from a spring on the beach
• perfect shade, as the beach borders with a marvelous forest, where it's cool all day long and in the night it's not windy and sandy
• people there are generally nice
• cheap!
• equally near to (between) the two biggest cities on the coast line.

Cons

• 40 mins walk on a dirt road to the nearest village for food supply (quite easy and pleasant though)
• project for closing the area and building an "Eco Village" (decision and deadline unknown yet)
• language barrier?
• many campers in summer

Coords.: 42.892231,27.899687

• your suggestion?