September 4All this long journey back made me arrive quite late at home in Poole, which means that I needed to be on the ship to do a working day…

September 3I was happy, I made it to Heathrow and I had plenty of time. I first went to look if I could find a bus to Victoria but I couldn't manage …

September 3I landed at Zaventem Airport so early that it was a bit dead... the long walk on the terminal to reach the passport check was long. Anyhow…

September 2I didn't get too much sleep as I had all my bag to pack and especially loads of paper work to do before getting to the plane. So that was …

August 22Today was an early wake up call, so no relaxing long morning... but anyway with the jet lag, I was already awake.My mother took me i…

Home, home, home... how will it be?I have been most of the time abroad those last years that I probably won't feel home, nor either feel in clo…

It is just a airport transfer, but there is always stories to be told from these moments (well on my case), or maybe I'm simply like a child in t…

It's been booked, so I got my plane ticket to Brussels from London Heathrow with Brussels Airline for that very same day. I will just need to s…

The pictures are some images from my work on the ship and some colleagues I was working with, taken while we did an empty sailing.July 22 - 23 - 24 -…

Work finished early enough for me to go back home and relax before walking back to the bus station, everything went smooth: bus to London and then an…

July 20Early waking up, at least for me it was (minus one hour) which is what sometimes annoys me from Floh, that he lacked the consideration tha…

June 28Back on the ship, wish some new shift energy. But this didn't stand long as the sailing quite killed me. Just before we arrived in Guernse…

June 26Ahhh a day off where I'm doing something, at last!It was a calm day and it looked ok as it was first sunny but still it get cloudy by midday b…

June 17From yesterday, I work on the cafeteria for this shift, we also have new crew that came aboard and a new cabin manager (we swapped from time…

Occasionnally, on the way to St-Malo we stop in St-Helier - Jersey. It is the port we sailed the least this season though (on my case).Jersey as an…

June 15A calm day, I mainly spent most of the day preparing my things for tomorrow on the ship and in the flat as well as I was about to have guest…

June 10My first cycle to work, and a decent calm sailing day working at the bar. Everything went fine, I was home early and simply watched a movie be…

June 8I took the bus in the morning to be in London by mid afternoon, a bit stress to actually miss it but It was ok.I relaxed and slept on the way a…

For more, see the previous entry,I moved to my new flat by the end of that week. Great place, more near the harbour. It will cut my walk halfway. Its…

Another entry to simply detail my working sailing route.The St-Malo run is the longest one... it takes more than 5 hours to reach St-Malo and we star…

Most of our afternoon shifts we have been stopping in St-Peter-Port in Guernsey either on the way and/or on the way back, before-after St-Malo.That u…

June 1Well as previous entry said, it was the last working day of the shift, late wake up brought me late at work. Not good at all. Lazy day afterwar…

There won't be anything particular to write about this exact day... besides that it was a fast sailing and back to France. I more simply enter …

24 MayA day off, our guest left early to catch his flight from Bournemouth airport and I heard him but still slept later. I must say I didn't take …

May 14The very first of the training days, so it was an early wake up. But luckely I had a lift with Davina's mother to Weymouth. So it saved me the …

May 13It's been an early waking up again, Have got a rythm?But no it was to go to Parkstone for a medical, it went fine and I talked with the docto…

May 12Aaaahhhh, it was quite welcome to step off the ship, get some fresh air. Most of us were shook from the sailing condition or having been sick. …

May 9A good relaxed moment together and calm alone in the house after our previous days adventure. It was quite romantic as well at a certain point…

May 8So Nadine stepped off at a truck stop near Calais by the highway, we were still confident that she would be right behind us when we managed to r…

May 7We arrived at Roeselare by the end of the afternoon, a nice train ride in the 'piek uur' time, the belgian train are still lovely and comfortabl…

May 4Nadine left in early morning to be back at her home to do her tasks for the day. I simply went back to sleep finally. Later I joined her when it…

May 2We arrived in Jemelle train station, obviously there was no bus again and we definitely didn't know anything of the area. We simply lift our thu…

April 30So I couldn't really contact anybody to let know that I was arrived in town. My first move was to go to Mathilde, as I had received not news …

April 27We ended up eating at a local pizzeria (tasty yum yum) all 4 together and Peter offered, I really enjoyed their hospitality which was quite…

April 1I had a dead day, my ankle was still hurting so I couldnt move too much. Our guest went out for the day with Florian so I stayed home and re…

March 31Early early wake up to catch our ferries by 7am we left with the Condor ferries for a 2h sail to St-Peter-Port in Guernsey in a quite grey we…

March 30I left by midday on foot, walking all the way through Poole and around Poole Bay searching a spot to hitch-hike or at least catching the bu…

March 18A CS friend of Floh came today and we all went to the beach in Bournemouth as there were 2 other member coming for the day from London, It wa…

March 12Floh was sick last night, he still went to work today but he came back earlier in the afternoon. He got a sick leaves from his job and later …

March 11It was a lovely journey back through Belgium on this marbelous sunny day, passeport control and few hours later we came out of the Eurotunn…

March 8So as it was rush hour it was easy for me to walk off the car and get onto a viaduc to walk in town from the northern ring. I went to the firs…

March 6After getting out of the Lidl, I started hitching and luckely within 2 rides I was in the vicinity of Maastricht. I simply then walked to Maar…

-----------March 2Not much has happened today.It was a quite and lazy day and well, Achim is either worried or annoyed by that :SI can understand tha…

March 1I arrived back at Achim and relaxed a little, working with my computer before heading back in town to catch a bus to Grimbergen and pay a shor…

February 27The guy who brought me to Leuven was quite nice, once arrived nearby the Stadspark I noticed that things had already changed since last ti…

February 21At least, I managed to reach the metro station Heysel before the last metro left. So I wait a bit shocked of my previous adventure. It was…

February 20I made it all the way to Dover Harbour, now I was wondering how I would get a ride to the other side of the Channel, how could I make the …

February 19So luckely I made it to the surrounding of Portsmouth, not too bad so far for a first hitch-hiking experience in the UK. But most of the r…

February 11We finally arrived home and went to sleep, what a heavy week end!-----------February 12The week end out in London as really knocked me out…

February 9We left with the bus to London at about 17h and arrived in Hammersmith later on to go to Dana (HC: mrsnice) where we would stay for the wee…

February 3I woke up and took a shower and finally managed to find the way to put the heating on. Then I simply went for a walk in the neighbourhood a…

Well eventhough it's a decent place to stay to have a roof, it is simply not the wonder that it is often claimed to be. On my case, after having stay…

January 31Finally landing in Stansted, I don't have a host.. so I don't necesserily know where to go. The great thing is that I was alone on the non-…

January 29After this long hot bus ride, I finally arrived in Brno. Having an evil cold and a head willing to explode... but especially a need to drin…

January 26Finally after the long and crowded bus ride (where I stood the whole way), we arrived slightly tired in Trutnov and went to her father'…

January 24It's another slightly snowy day, that's lovely! I missed snow so much!So later on today I will be meeting with Daniela (hc: dadla) in Pragu…

January 22It was a lazy waking, a bit stiff from the previous day walk. But after being ready, Katarina brought me on the way to hitch further in d…

January 19We talked together while driving to Bielsko-Biala, Lukasz needed to go to get an appointment at the doctor so we stopped by in the city and…

January 15I manage to reach the Youth Centre where Florian is volunteering and finally spend the evening there with and other germans who were al…

January 12Aaaaaahh lazy day, my hosts were pretty cool and its later that food was needed so we joined useful to the pleasant time and made a tour of…

January 11(Wieliczka... reputated for its salt mine... which for the price asked, I did not visit!!)Today I left Lublin early, I got left in the outs…

January 8So the bus ride from Warsaw to Lublin was still a few hours and I was quite tired of the previous night with its lack of sleep, so as there …

January 4Finally later today Olga (HC: Olia) has arrived in Warsaw and I'm moving to her place for the coming days. She was at her family in Minsk fo…

December 28 The night train is a long ride and overcrowded, I manage to walk in it and get a place to sit by the end of the train…

Can you imagine arriving in town and your host isnt there for the week end?Merry fucking Christmas...But Christmas is also time for surprise and …

Sometimes enough is enough... why didnt they take my student card though?On the way to GdanskDecember 23 The funny thing is that it appeared that …

In Akademija actually... December 22 Its been great to see Roberto again, he was quite worried about my case since he knew I was sick but I was…

Started Great, met lots of cool people lots of party and stayed really cool, even though energy dropped I got sick, my jaw swollen, needed to go to…

December 5There I arrived in Kaunas and spend the night at Vita's commune family flat. Great, but its quite high on the tower... at least they have…

December 5Early early but 7am we were getting ready and jump on a full overpacked bus direction downtown and talk on the way. Finally I get out at …

December 2I woke up in the morning to prepare to leave, which was pretty hard as I spent long time on the net in the late night and finally had a s…

November 27I had still the time to prepare since I woke up early and Paul let me the time to prepare. When he came back to get me I was fully ready f…

November 24I woke up early and left after Adrienne to hit the road fully ready, wearing my thermal underclothing and all the good reserve of food and…

November 22I lived by midday and walked out of town but had enough for a while so I took the U-bahn for a part of the way.The sky was grey and though…

November 19The wake up in Munster was early and it was rainy. BeeuuuuOne rare day I was going to hitch-hike under the rain. At least it was a light r…

November 18I arrived in Munster quite early enough to have the chance to do something, to save some credits I walked and found where Dihia lives but …

November 17Greatly I stood at a tank station along the highway not too far from the German border. I stood there until I could talk to some people to…

November 15 My luck helped since while walking I managed to make another car stopped to bring me at the entrance of Wageningen and then within 30 mi…

November 12 I arrived late at Tijs with Maikel we talked for a while before he left back and the time was being to go to sleep in his appartment of …

November 10 So I finally arrived in Maastricht early enough, I contacted Sander (HC:sbakkes) and Laura whom I met shortly on the square before goi…

Brussels and Mechelen and back November 6 We needed to wake up early to leave Gent on time to be able to meet Laura in Brussels  by 10ham esp…

November 4 We reached the hitch-hiking spot in Antwerp and manage to find a lift with a restaurant owner who was loaded with cheese. Then another ri…

November 3 We still played another game by morning and only left by noon, walking to Schaarbeek to find a hitch-hiking spot and finally all the way …

November 1 Achim, finally let us stay inside for a part of the evening even after he left and we could simply dump the keys in the mailbox. So we to…

October 30 We stopped again at Mieke while she was there and ended up having lunch there, with some attempt of terror by her father Jos. Anyway, we …

October 25 We arrived to Achim somewhat on time to leave with him the the room of the 'Boom Bal'I was still expecting that it was a traditionnal fol…

October 23 We needed to leave early in the morning from Mieke's place and we used the day to hitch-hike in direction of Tienen through the national …

October 22We woke and took it easy its only by the afternoon that Frank brought us downtown in Brussels more specifically at Ingrid in Schaarbeek, wh…

October 21We finally left Boechout to hitch-hike in direction of the thing that was the main reason why we were back in Belgium: Frank's Birthday par…

October 20So we spent the night inside the Petrol station sleeping alternatively on the floor or on a bench and waking up pretty often; for me it was…

October 18That day PJ was giving a atelier in Orleans so we could get a ride with him in his tiny compact car... so we did!We got a nice ride in di…

October 16 Silly, that is the word. We left Clermont before dawn and walked out of the city and its only by dawn that we were on the way to HH. We …

October 16We arrived in Bourges somehow nearly on time to find the meeting point, first the guy who took us from the highway to the city was quite im…

October 14After 2 lifts, the first one giving by 2 young guys helping us getting out of Brious after having seen us along the road from their job for…

Actually, Villeneuve-d'AllierOctober 13Christian took and was driving to Auvergne through the Puy-en-Velay and could eventually leave us on the way t…

October 12Dylan was still 'lost' When I was slowly preparing to leave Lausanne. I sent a note to Frank saying to take relais as I wont be on the net …

October 8We arrived at Pascal (see previous)--------------October 9 I woke up and did some things with the computer, then later I went to visit the …

October 4 I woke up slowly from Ulrike's place and we discussed while having breakfast. Finally later by the afternoon she drove me to the rasthof b…

October 3The morning was slow, Matthias left and after I finally took a bus when the rain slowed down to Heidelberg. Even if I didnt get to contact U…

October 2The hitch-hiking out of Frankfurt wasn't too bad, After I found the good spot it took me about 15 min. to be taken all the way down by an In…

September 29I left from Ingrid by the afternoon to go to Frank's job place to leave in direction of Germany after having slept late and worked on t…

September 28 The previous days, Frank had called me to have some chat and offered me to drive with him to Germany where he could bring me to Frankfu…

September 27 On Wednesday the belgian children only have half a day of school, Sarah decided to not send them for the morning so that by end of th…

:) September 24 I arrived somehow late at the meeting after a long train ride departing from Leopoldsburg and switching in Antwerp. I called Frank…

September 23 With the previous night I woke up pretty late and I started preparing but before that I worked on my computer to try to save and burn a…

September 10 As we arrived by the evening back at Achim we first went to Mathilde's place to relax a bit and finally we both felt asleep but woke up…

September 9 We all woke up pretty late, especially me and after having cleaned up Mathilde's flat we went to get some food and chilled on the neares…

September 7 With Frank to do some thing around Brussels, I waited in the meantime and we went to Grimbergen later where I could use the net and pack…

September 7 We woke up early and Chris drove me to Dusseldorf train station. From then on I had few hours to kill in town and walked to the center o…

We hit the road and on the way decided to stop by to say hi to Laura in Maastricht. This was also giving me the opportunity to collect the things she…

------------------September 6 I woke up by mid-day and worked on the Internet most of the time, then by the end of the day I moved to the Aldi to …

September 5 Leaving by midday, As Florian was going in direction of Trier, we did the panoramic route and stopped to look at the place where next …

September 4 We arrived at Florian's place, going through Luxemburg from a ride we caught with a Luxembourg woman and it was a pretty interesting rid…

If you want to see the pictures of the camp I will have to send you to my other blog entry: http://www.travelpod.com/cgi-bin/guest.pl?tweb_tripID=eu…

August 30 I woke up early and Marie did even more early than me, she strangely even left while I was still preparing and taking my shower... strange…

August 28 We went to buy some foods in the grocery store and bought a beer for our host and then when we came out Anjay was there.  We moved to…

August 27 We woke early but only prepared pretty late to do something of our day. In the early morning 2 other guests from Switzerland arrived and t…

August 26 Even if I arrived late the previous day, we woke up early and I hardly get hot water and even LOST MY TOE NAIL!! I could believe it… it …

August 25 Arriving in Riga, with the french we went to John Lemon pub where I was going the previous year with James to have breakfast. Finally most…

Liis (HC - inbetween)   August 24 So I left Tallinn by late morning and got into the bus with Bianka (hc:flowerpower) advice and did the rid…

So I took my ferry ticket but didnt manage to contact anybody in Estonia, the result might be a fly by over the country... :(  ... that has chan…

August 17 So I had the luck to use the Internet for free at the youth hostel for a few minutes and to fastly catch up with someone from Espoo (next …

August 16 So there I was in the middle of the countryside in Aapajarvi, and then I got to get in mind that I was obviously not going to get further …

Taken in the middle of a freezing night and brought from Finland to Sweden...August 15 Getting back on the road down south and crossing the Polar ci…

Leaving Nordreisa has been hard hard hard not at all like the rest of Norway. Its been long and I was freezing and it was freezing. The good point …

Yep, I didn't make it to Tromsö. I had cancel my trip there for different reason, the first one being from a misunderstood with my potential H…

August 11Hopefully, I didnt get to wait long before a fully pack SUV with trailer pulled over to pick me. It was an old man, fisherman from Honningsv…

August 9So I woke up quite early in Lakselv and get breakfast, prepared and eventually said goodbye to Anne and the children before getting on th…

August 8So the Italian couple left me in the center of the villages and I went to get a map at the Tourist office to find Anne's house and walked…

August 7The guy who took me to Karigasniemi was a young guy coming back from a festival in the south and going to visit a friend who was moving out. …

August 7Leaving from Kuusamo driving with Laura and her father to Rovaniemi where I will start my HH journey to the north. I woke up pretty well in t…

August 2It’s been a lazy day and Laura was quite busy with her home things and so, so I asked to borrow a bike to cycle around, I did for a while…

August 1We woke up quite early and I prepared myself and some lunch while Laura woke up in a bad mood again so I ignore it. Then we left Tampere and …

July 31We woke up slowly and Laura was in hell of a mood and didn't even say a word which was quite annoying... so anyway I stopped bothering and d…

the first rain of the journey!!July 28As we board the ferry, I looked at a plan and we moved to a room marked as cinema which revealed to be a sleep-…

July 25   Lazy morning after such a great comfy sleep... after some preparation, Maria walked with us to the crossroad that bring us with loca…

warm warm warm... long wait, full or no car... short ride. We are lucky we always reached our destination! Walking walking out of Copenhaguen has be…

--July 22   The wake up was ok, short breakfast and fast tour of the city with a stop at Troels garden house... although the weather was …

3 countries in a day, and today one more will add.   --July 20   We left Groningen with an hour late wakin, eating packing and getting …

  Voila here I am in Groningen in the huge heat of the European summer of 2006.   We did hitch-hike me and Laura all the way from Leiden…

July 17The waking up was extremely early and I went to join Achim at the old appartment to have breakfast with him and talk before I was leaving and …

  I left with Frank to Brussels to do some things at the Fnac and finally to roll over to find a parking space... it was the Flemish National d…

  The weather is really vacation alike, so for me its pretty relaxing so far I'm starting to chat with friends and to make plans for the comin…

Well Basically

Anybody interested in having a look at any previous journey I had shall look the following link and website where I had already published all my jour…