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Shortest ride: 3 km, from the ferry port to the town of Holmsund (Sweden)
 
Shortest ride: 3 km, from the ferry port to the town of Holmsund (Sweden)
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Longest ride (km):  612 km, Stockholm - Malmo  
 
Longest ride (km):  612 km, Stockholm - Malmo  
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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!
 
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!
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Warmest hitchhiking day: Yazd - Bandar Abbas (probably around 25 degrees)
 
Warmest hitchhiking day: Yazd - Bandar Abbas (probably around 25 degrees)
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Coldest hitchhiking day: Minsk - Vilnius, around -25 degrees in a snow storm
 
Coldest hitchhiking day: Minsk - Vilnius, around -25 degrees in a snow storm
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Easiest country to hitchhike in: Armenia
 
Easiest country to hitchhike in: Armenia
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Hardest country to hitchhike in: Sweden (I had to give up HH in Uppsala and take the train)
 
Hardest country to hitchhike in: Sweden (I had to give up HH in Uppsala and take the train)
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Awesomest ride 1: German guy who let us stay in his house for the night near Braunschweig!
 
Awesomest ride 1: German guy who let us stay in his house for the night near Braunschweig!
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Awesomest ride 2: Guy who organises Positivus Festival (biggest festival in the Baltic countries) and showed me around the festival terrain!
 
Awesomest ride 2: Guy who organises Positivus Festival (biggest festival in the Baltic countries) and showed me around the festival terrain!
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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!
 
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!
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Of course I am grateful for everyone who took the time to help me out while I was standing next to the road.
 
Of course I am grateful for everyone who took the time to help me out while I was standing next to the road.

Revision as of 19:18, 28 March 2012

Podz is a Hitchhiker who 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 km

Berlin - Dresden ~ 195 km

Dresden - Prague ~ 152 km

Prague - Bratislava (and getting stuck near Brno) ~ 330 km

Târgu Mures - Bucharest ~ 338 km

Istanbul - Canakkale ~ 503 km

Iran desert Trip (Yazd - Chupanan - Khur - Mesr - Tabas - Kerman) ~ 1.260 km

Yazd - Bandar Abbas ~ 685 km

Armenian/ Iran border - Yerevan ~ 370 km

Yerevan - Gyumri ~ 125 km

Tblisi - Batumi ~ 370 km

Odessa - Kiev ~ 475 km

Kiev - Gomel ~ 265 km

Magilyow - Minsk ~ 200 km

Minsk - Vilnius ~ 190 km

Vilnius - Riga ~ 291 km

Riga - Tallinn ~ 310 km

Helsinki - Tampere ~ 179 km

Tampere - Vaasa ~ 240 km

Umeå - Uppsala ~ 570 km

Stockholm - Copenhagen ~ 659 km

Copenhagen - 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 storm

Easiest country to hitchhike in: Armenia

Hardest 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.