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Robert "<strong>prino</strong>" Prins is a 55-year old hitchhiking grandfather of four, born in the [[Netherlands]], but now living in [[Oostende]] in [[Belgium]].
His <strong>recorded</strong> hitchhiking career started on 16 June 1980 at 7:47 and as of 18 October 2 December 2015 at 1422:42 he has hitched 465467,775653.6 0 km in the following 33 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]], [[Slovenia]] and [[Andorra]].
He has also been to the [[United States of America|USA]] on two occasions, visiting [[Austin]] and [[New York]], but he has not done any hitchhiking during those visits.
See details on his log[[User:prino/log| ]]<span style="display: none;"> </span>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 French to survive when dropped in the middle of nowhere in France.
[[Image:prino-guinness.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Famous for 15 minutes...]]
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<li><strong>Career distance:</strong> 465467,775653.6 0 km (as of 2015-1112-18T1402T22:42)</li>
<li><strong>Best 24 hour:</strong> 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><strong>Best calendar month:</strong> 9,936.4 km, July 1990 - 17 hitchhiking days, the [[De Bilt]] to [[Athens (Greece)|Athina]] part of [[User:Prino/log/log1990|trip 11]].</li>
<li><strong>Best calendar year:</strong> 4547,137015.8 2 km, from 2015-01-04T08:30 to 2015-1112-19T1402T22:42 - 319 333 days (53 55 days on-the-road).</li>
<li><strong>Best 365 days:</strong> 53,088.4 km, from 2014-09-16T09:47 to 2015-09-10T17:26 - 360 days (65 days on-the-road).</li>
<li><strong>Longest ride:</strong> 2,502.9 km, from [[Platamon]] (Greece) (1990-08-13T16:32) to [[Driebergen]] (Netherlands) (1990-08-15T12:54), also in trip 11.</li>