Hitchhiking races

There are a lot of hitchhiking races every summer.

• Race to Riga was a race from Faro, Portugal, to Riga.
• Eurizons is an annual hitchhiking race through Europe with about 50 participants, funded by the European Union including some workshops about the Millennium Development Goals.
• The University of Sheffield is organizing a hitchhiking race every year:
  • The Bummit to Belgrade was a hitchhiking race in 2007 with 200 students from Sheffield to Belgrade.
  • The Bummit to Tallinn (via Leipzig) takes place Eastern 2008 with over 300 students from Sheffield to Tallinn.
• The BOC organizes races occasionally just for fun, usually starting from Utrecht, Netherlands.
• The Link Community Development organizes an annual race from the UK to Morocco and Prague for charity.
• Some Dutch people from Uden in the Netherlands are organizing a hitchhiking competition once a year, known in Dutch as the Liftwedstrijd
• The Klub Przygody from Poland is organising a hitchhiking competition once a year in the beginning of May. Mostly they start from Gdansk to some destination in Europe.
• The University of St. Andrews Charities Campaign organizes a hitchhiking competition once a year in January. In 2008 they will hitchhike from Scotland towards Amsterdam.
• The German hitchhiking society abgefahren e.V. is organizing a hitchhiking race every year in spring, starting somewhere in Germany.
• The Big Belgian Hitchhiking Contents is an annually event, starting in Ghent.
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