First day!

….7:00 am  - we woke up,  took quick shower. My brother-in-low gave us a lift to the gates on a highway in Dopiewiec.  It’s really good option because all cars slow down there and they have place to stop for the moment.  All information like this: how to get out from the city, where is a good place and legal to hitchhike you can find on http://hitchwiki.org/, it’s better to use English version because there is much more information than in polish hitchwiki. We were waiting for 5 minutes when the first car stop. It was a polish truck (about truck drivers I will write more because their peculiar culture can be really interesting some how). He gave us a lift to gas station near to the border.  Then we started to ask people if they were going the same direction – Berlin. It was obvious that 80% were going this direction because it was a highway but I think it sounds more polite if we ask people where do they go. Some hitchhikers say that asking people is not really educate that it’s better to just stay in some place with cartoon and  waiting. Ofc it works in some places (on the local road or roundabout) but  we prefer to just ask in really polite way without impose on anybody, first asking if they speak English or Spanish etc. The thing is to do it with smile, be easy-going …. We have a situation when somebody said “no” but then when he/she went to pay and observed us a little bit and he/she said “Ok, I will take you”. Then we heard that it’s because they had never gave a lift to anybody but we seemed to be nice and not dangerous. So sometimes people need a time.  I guess I will come back to the topic of asking people on the gas station because their answers sometimes are really really funny :D  Coming back to “How did we get to Amsterdam?”.  We were asking maybe 5 minutes in gas station and then  one polish businessman took us about 30 kilometers from Magdeburg. There we ate our lunch and had some nice conversation with two retired Dutch. Then we asked people if they could take us: we found polish track-driver. He took us to gas station near to Hannover and there we met really extraordinary Scottish named Luke…

Hitchhike? Why not!:)

                I’ve been thinking a long time about what could I write in my blog. Obvious was for me to write about something which would be interesting for me and for my readers and would be new and fresh. At the beginning I was thinking about movies, books, yoga or eco lifestyle….but then I hit upon the idea to “exploit” this blog to make one think for which I haven’t  had a time so far:  to record my memories from this year’s holiday. Hope you will enjoy it ;-)

                This year we decided (me and my boyfriend – Sebastian) to visit Holland, North of Spain and Portugal.  We decided to travel by hitchhiking as we did last year and was really successful. Some people might think that’s dangerous, that’s  waste of time because nobody gives a lift to strangers, that’s stupid doing it if the budget airlines are incredibly cheap nowadays…etc. In some way I can agree with all of that opinion…BUT anyway, I will try to convince you of big advantage which hitchhiking gives. I will try to describe in details how to get a lift, which places are safe to hitchhike, where you can sleep during the travel and I will write something about the budget for trip like that. Big part of my blog I will dedicate to people which we have met during our trip.

                Ok, so everything starts on 15^th of July….