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Saint-Petersburg to Velikiy Novgorod (The Hangover) – May 9
It seemed like in a moment of clarity I had set the alarm for 11:30 last night. Checkout was at 12:00 so I stumbled out of bed instead of hitting the snooze button. Brecht’s bed was empty and his mattress seemed to have disappeared as well. When I dragged myself to the shower I found Brecht lying … Read More
Saint-Petersburg – May 3 – May 8
We spent six full days in Saint-Petersburg, mainly because we were too lazy to carry on with our trip and because we heard from a lot of people that the rest of Russia isn’t as nice as Saint-Petersburg. The first day our host, the lovely Liublov, kicked us out at 10AM. It was a nice … Read More
Helsinki to Saint-Petersburg – May 2
Tonight it was still freezing but Brecht’s mom had given us the tip to not sleep with our coats on but instead put them over our sleeping bags. This really helped and I felt completely refreshed this morning. The sky was clear and blue, a perfect day for hitchhiking to Russia! We took a tram … Read More
Helsinki – April 29 – May 1
“Whaaaat? No post about Tallinn to Helsinki?” you ask? That’s right! Being on a luxury ferry for a couple of hours is hardly enough of an adventure to dedicate a full blog post to it. You can watch the pictures below to get an impression, or read my one line report here: We stepped on … Read More
Tallin – April 27 – April 29
We decided to get our minds dirty with some culture in Tallinn, so we went to visit the museum of occupation on the 27th after catching some sleep and hanging around the city. The original plan was to take the ferry to Helsinki the next day, but it turned out that Brecht’s contact was traveling … Read More
Riga to Tallinn – April 26
Here’s Brecht’s final contribution (for now). Enjoy! Getting from Riga to Tallinn was piece of cake. We followed the instructions on hitchwiki.org to get to the highway. We took tram 6 till the terminus and then walked for half an hour to find a major gas station and then fixed a ride in 10 minutes. … Read More
Riga – April 25
This one is for you Lau. But I hope the other 75% of my readers will also appreciate a blog post that has absolutely nothing to do with hitch-hiking. Even though I was tired I had set my alarm clock at 9:30 to get some free breakfast from the hostel. The plan was to go back to bed … Read More
Kaunas to Riga – April 24
I will write a little bit about Riga in this and the next post because Lau has been bitching about this blog containing only hitch-hiking stories. But before we get there, let’s first enjoy Brechts’ hitch-hiking post below! After some good sleep, we took the bus to get to the highway and after 10 minutes … Read More
Warsaw to Kaunas – April 23
Enjoy another one of Brecht’s posts! With some edits by me. The highway direction Bialystok was at the other side of Warsaw so we spent around two hours to get there. We saw a hostel along the road and went in to ask directions how to get to Struga, a small place where the highway … Read More
Berlin to Warshaw – April 22
Here’s another post from Brecht. Enjoy! We needed another strategy to get out of Berlin, so we next day we went back to the Michendorf Station, where we camped a couple of days ago. Here we waited for an hour and we got a ride straight in to Poland from Benjamin aka Benny. He was … Read More
Trying to get out of Berlin on Easter Monday – April 21
It’s been more than 5 days since I wrote my last blog post. We have been hitch-hiking 4 days non-stop. So I basically didn’t have the time to update the blog. On top of that I lost my note book yesterday (just a paper one, not my laptop luckily), so I will have to recall everything from memory. … Read More
Berlin – April 17th – April 20th
So, we made it to Berlin in one piece, but things didn’t go exactly as planned. When Tarsten dropped us off at the gas station at 11:30 PM, 40 km from the center of Berlin we were confident we would be shaking hands with our friend Lau Levenswaren (who also wishes to use a lame … Read More
The road to Berlin – April 17th
It’s about 8PM and we are 20 km from Hannover. I’m now in the back of a “Hummercar 3″ mobile home that is driving us straight to Berlin. In four hours we will arrive in the capital so I have some time to write down the adventures of my first full day of hitchhiking. We got … Read More