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Robert "<!-- span style="color:blue" -->'''prino'''<!-- /span -->" Prins is a 51-year old hitchhiking grandfather of two, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <!-- span style="color:blue" -->'''recorded'''<!-- /span --> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 5 August 10 September 2011 at 2015:01 32 he has hitched 313,498524.8 1 km in the following 32 countries:
[[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Denmark]], [[Sweden]], [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Austria]], [[Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Turkey]], [[Belgium]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Italy]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Poland]], [[Lithuania]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Japan]], [[San Marino]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Hungary]], [[Croatia]] and [[Slovenia]].
He has also been to the [[United States of America|USA]] twiceon two occasions, visiting [[Austin]] and [[New York]], but he has not done any hitchhiking during those visits.
See details on his [[User:prino/log|log of hitching trips]] or a [[User:prino/map|map]].
He's fluent in Dutch and English, more than capable of speaking German and knows enough of French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.
<h2>Personal hitch-hike records/statistics</h2>
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Famous for 15 minutes...]]
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<li>'''Career distance:''' 313,498524.8 1 km (as of 2011-0809-05T2010T15:0132)</li>
<li>'''Best 24 hour:''' 2,318.4 km, from Southern Yugoslavia (1989-07-05T00:00) to just before Raststätte Hamburg-Stillhorn (Germany) (1989-07-05T24:00). This record can be found on page 179 of the 1991 UK edition of the Guinness Book of Records, see the link from [[Hitchhiking World Records]] for full [[Prino%27s_24-hour_record|details]].</li>
<li>'''Longest ride:''' 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54).</li>
<li>'''Fastest ride:''' 190.2 km/h (<!-- span style="color:blue" -->''average speed!''<!-- /span -->), from Raststätte Aurach (Germany) (2010-06-14T20:06) to Raststätte In der Holledau (2010-06-14T20:50). There have been a multitude of rides where the highest speed has exceeded this value, with speeds up to around 255 km/h!</li>
<li>'''Fastest trip:''' 3,076.7 km in 24:16 hours (<!-- span style="color:blue" -->''actual driving time''<!-- /span -->), from Oostende (Belgium) (2010-11-22T06:56) via Germany back to Oostende (2010-11-25T06:19).</li>
<li>'''Exceed one [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light CLight-second Light-second]:''' On 2011-02-02T10:47 his ''recorded'' hitchhiking distance exceeded 299.792.5 km. It takes light one second to travel this distance, it took Prino, give or take a few <!-- 15 ? --> leap-seconds, 966,673,380 times longer.</li>
<li>Best [http://www.autostop.lt/ '''Vilniaus Autostopo Klubas'''] traveler (distance-wise) for the club years of 2001/2 and 2007/8.</li>
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