My trip has been going quite strange. I liked visiting in Germany, where hitchhiking is a usual well accepted thing. And I could speak German, and actually they speak pretty good English there.
In France everything is beautiful, chique. I don’t know French but people speak English more or less and they are open, polite, which makes hitchhiking possible as even if sometimes they wouldn’t take me, they would decline my request politely. And when they agree to give me a lift, they get interested and excited on the way with me and bring me to the city center and explain what is where by their own initiative.
Странно складывается моё путешествие. Мне очень приятно было находиться в Германии, где автостоп – обычное дело, и по -немецки я могла говорить, да и английский там многие знают.
Во Франции так все красиво, так изысканно, французского я не знаю, и с английским там у людей более туго, чем в Германии, но люди довольно открыты, вежливые, приятны, отчего и автостопить можно, если и не подвезут, то мило откажут. А если подвезут, то в процессе заинтересуются общением, проникнутся и завезут и в центр города, и обьяснят что к чему.
But how does it happen that most time of my trip I have been spending in Italy?! Italy is so wild for me, untamed, sometimes too hot and couchsurfing hosts can accept only late at night, and generally it is difficult to find hosts among many profiles. Sometimes Italy is very dirty, and it can be just tiring with its atmosphere. Things are not organized well. In many places of the country I happened to have a problem finding numbers of trains, streets, houses. Often you can’t know which station the train or bus is arriving at.
Hitchhiking in Italy goes slow and difficult. I realized I should not plan to make more than 400km per day, when I made Minsk-Moscow of 850km! People are closed, unwilling to make a contact and in most cases I get a ride from foreigners: Germans, Spanish, Austrians, Turks.
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