User:Gwen - TravelComic
Gwen is a solo adventurer, hitchhiker and travel blogger from Berlin, Germany. She started hitchhiking in 2015 and writes about her experiences on TravelComic.com.
Hitchhiking Experience
2018
Hitchhiking solo from the North Cape to Oslo 2500km
Day 1 North Cape --> Alta --> Tromso
Day 2 Tromso --> Lofoten --> Bodo
Day 3 Kaunas --> Vilnius
Day 4 Bodo --> Trondheim--> Dombas
Day 5 Dombas --> Trollstigen--> Geiranger
Day 6 Geiranger --> Oslo
Hitchhiking from Dresden (Germany) to the North Cape -> European Hitchhiking Competition 3500km
Day 1 Dresden --> Lodz --> Lubljana --> Zagreb
Day 2 Lodz --> Augustow --> Kaunas
Day 3 Kaunas --> Vilnius
Day 4 Vilnius --> Riga--> Talinn
Day 5 Talinn --> Helsinki--> Jyväskylä Day 6 Jyväskylä --> Oulu--> Muonio
Day 7 Muonio --> Alta -->North Cape
Hitchhiking from Munich to Istanbul 2000km
Day 1 Munich --> Salzburg --> Lubljana --> Zagreb
Day 2 Zagreb --> Slavonski Brod --> Novi Sad
Day 3 Novi Sad --> Belgrad --> Nis --> Sofia --> Plovdiv --> Swilengrad
Day 4 Swilengrad --> Edirne--> Istanbul
2017
Hitchhiking and Backpacking around South East Asia
Philippines /Vietnam /Cambodia /Thailand /Myanmar /Kuala Lumpur /Bali
2016
Solo through Taiwan
Kaohsiung --> Chiayi --> Sun Moon Lake --> Taipei
From Poland to Budapest and Croatia and Cologne
Wrozlaw--> Krakow --> Slowakia --> Budapest --> Zagreb --> Rijeka --> Munich --> Cologne
2015
From Nuremberg to Albania and through Italy
Day 1 Nuremberg --> Lubljana
Day 2 Lubljana --> Split
Day 3 Split --> Dubrovnik
Day 4 Dubrovnik --> Budva
Day 5 Budva --> Tirana
Day 6 Tirana --> Dürres
Day 7 Dürrey Ferry to Bari --> Giovinazzo
Day 8 Giovinazzo --> Naples
Day 9 Naples --> Rome
Stats
- Longest wait: 6hrs at a gas station in Croatia close to the Serbian border but eventually a truck stopped on the highway
- Shortest wait: 10 Minutes in Montenegro close to the Albanian border
- Longest ride: 1000km from the border Croatia/Serbia to Istanbul with a Turkish truck driver
- Easiest country for hitchhiking: Taiwan
- Scariest experience: 2 Italian guys picked us up near Bari (we wanted to go to Naples) and invited us to lunch before they started smoking weed and closing their eyes for fun while driving and speed racing on the highway. I almost cried, insisted to get out of the car and by luck a bus to Naples just stopped at the gas station. We got in the bus and saw how the 2 guys paid for the tickets