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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.
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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.
 

Latest revision as of 07:13, 13 October 2017

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