User:Perilisk

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I'm of the female gender. My first language in French. I hitchhiked mainly in North America and Europe. I'm currently based in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, but will be back in Europe in Fall 2011

In February 2011, I started a website in French to promote a general hitchhiking culture and my talks. You can find it here : La Globe-stoppeuse

I give talks on travelling solo, especially for women. I believe it is a road to self-development. See a sample on YouTube.

I moderate the Hitchhiking group on Couchsurfing. Find more about me on my homepage.

I also like sharing my Collection of Bookmarks on Hitchhiking, AFAIK the biggest available right now on the net. You can also Follow me on Twitter.

Projects

I'd like to make a living on the road, i.e. be able to earn 3000 € yearly to secure my life and eventually get some health insurance. I'm working on writing and conferences to achieve that goal.

I co-wrote a book with two French guys, it should be out in 2011. It's a howto manual about alternative travelling : hitchhiking, boat/plane hitchhiking, cargo ships, ridesharing, but also urban foraging (and foraging in general), hospex networks, spontaneous hospitality, urban camping, etc. I'd like to see it translated to French.

I also research as a dilettante on the following topics : hitchhiking, mobility, contemporary nomadism, women perspectives, sexual assaults and fear, etc. I'm willing to collaborate with anyone researching those topics, participating in interviews, sharing papers, ideas or networks. I'm not related to any university.

Hitchwiki

Worked on

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Template:Country
• Cologne
• Oslo
• Argentina
• Template:South_America/countries
• Template:Americas/countries
• Toronto
• Paris
• Albania
• Norway
• Iqaluit

Experience

Americas

• Canada: Montreal-Rimouski (>15X), Montreal-Magdalen Islands (2x), Newfoundland-Montreal, Toronto-Ottawa (3x)
• Peru: Half hitching/paying in Valle Sagrado, around Maras and Urubamba

Europe

I tried to put my routes on a google map to make it more visual, but it freezes the map (too much stuff)

• Scandinavia: Copenhagen-Oland-Jonkoping-Stockholm, Oslo-Götenberg
• Ireland: Dublin-Rosslare
• France: Cherbourg-Rennes, Paris-Compiegne (5x?), Compiegne-Lille (4x), then round trip Paris via Dordogne, Montpellier and Clermont-Ferrand, Perche, Brittany and Herault quite extensively..
• Belgium: Paris-Bruxelles (2x), Brugges-Lille.. Brussels-Brugges, Brugges-Gent, Bruges-Antwerp, Brussels-Koblenz
• Germany & Austria: Paris-Cologne, Cologne-Dortmund, hating Cologne, Frankfurt-Cologne, Cologne-Berlin (4x), Essen-Bremen (2x), Berlin-Vienna (3x), Vienna-Munich, Bremen-Brussels, Frankfurt-Paris...
• United Kingdom: Manchester-Newcastle, Edinburgh-Loch Leven, Edinburgh-Prestwick
• Switzerland: Konstanz-Gossau
• Turkey: Eskisehir-Ankara-Cappadocia-Konya, Antalya-Izmir
• Spain & Portugal: Porto-Santiago-Oviedo, Bilbao-Toulouse

Long hauls...

• Istanbul-Sofia-Belgrade-Prague-Berlin
• Jena-Zurich
• Bremen-Bonn-Paris-Bordeaux-Porto

Probably forgetting a few :)