Summer plans

A lot has changed since the last update so I'll keep it short for now. Sadly Doris and I broke up and after that I decided to leave Uddebo. Currently I am sleeping on couches in and around Gothenburg until the 19th of this month. Then I'll hit the road again for a summer trip. First ill celebrate midsummer in the south of Sweden and from there go to Germany. I'll be around Cologne first and then visit a friend in Berlin. After Berlin I will return to Leiden, the Netherlands where I will stay for about a month before driving back up north to Sweden with my parents.

Sorry for the short update but I'm not really in the mood to write any more about the last few weeks.

See you on the road again!

On our way to Sweden!

Packed and ready to go

Last sunday morning it was time for us to start hitchhiking out of Vienna and move towards the north. We decided to take two weeks for the trip so we have plenty of time to visit friends along the way. Our first stop was still in Austria. We spend 2 nights in Wankham to catch up with people there. Getting there was really easy and we never had to wait long. Combining this with the great weather it was a blast to get back to hitchhiking.
The next stop of the trip is Prien am Chiemsee, where we are now. The first ride we took made us realize immediately that it was going to be our lucky day. The man that picked us up started talking about how he did the same when he was young the moment we got in the car. He drove us to a great gas-station on the highway from where we could get a long distance ride towards Germany. To bring us to this spot he had to take a short detour but that wasn't all. When we left the car he gave us some pocket money for the trip. People are awesome! After this ride it didn't take long until we were on the move again.
The last stretch to Prien we went off the highway and went through the countryside. We experienced that it was our lucky day once more when we bought a sandwich in a bakery and the woman working there ended up giving us lot of extra pastries to take with us on our trip! If that wasn't enough we hitchhiked a train the last 25km. In Germany you can buy the tickets in the train and when we wanted to buy them we got told that it's ok and we didn't have to pay.
Tomorrow morning we will make our way to Leiden, the Netherlands to stay there again for a few days. We hope we have just as much as luck the rest of our trip.

                         

back in Germany

Last sunday we went to the SummerJazz festival to spend our last day in Leiden. The plan was to leave the next morning to go back to Prien. When we got back home from the festival we saw that the area around Prien am Chiemsee completely flooded was and both the highway and the railroads were closed down. Those aren't the most ideal circumstances to hitchhike so we stayed a few more days till saturday morning. The day started out with short rides and around 19:30 we weren't even close to Prien yet. Then we met a dutch trucker who took us 230ish km to Würzburg. When we were in the truck we thought "It would be really sweet if we can find an Austrian car that can take us all the way." Well that happened so at 2 AM we finally arrived in Prien. The flood is gone and there isn't much evidence left that there even was one. The next day the sun was shining so we could finally go swimming in the lake. In about 2 weeks we will go to Gothenburg in Sweden for about a week, then we're going to Budapest to meet up with a friend of Doris with whom we will hitchhike from Budapest through Czech, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. It's gonna be one epic summer if all goes according to plan. I will leave my laptop here during those trips so I won't update that often I guess. Pictures and everything will be thrown on facebook as often as possible for your viewing pleasure. You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/DrifterInEurope