No Border Camp in Calais
July 1st, 2009 by fabzgyThrough a friend I got in touch with the topic of NoBorder Camps.
Since I still work in the Radio I did an interview with on of the activists more than a month ahead of the camp. By then I ve decided to show up at the camp to work on german media coverage.
Getting there was not as easy as I hoped. Since I ve just came back from Morocco I was not really able to organize a ride through any of the rideshare plattforms nor organize a host to store my equipment somewhere outside the camp. Fuck it - lets hitchhike I ve thought.
I ve first took a train to cross the border into France. A little bit north of Strasbourg I ve started to hitchhike. The first guy I ve asked went straight to Paris. That has never happened at any of my other attempts to hitchhike to Paris.
Anyway - I was not on the way to Paris so I left a few km before Reims. There I ve founf within 15 min a car going direction Lille. A few km before the junction of “Arras” I waited for quite a while until somebody took me to Dunkerque where they left me a t a shitty spot. I had to ask at least 80 cars vefore somebody took me at least at the highway exit of Calais.
The camp itself was a very nice experience which I m not going to describe further here. For any news check Indymedia UK.
The way back was even worse since the city was packed with cops. It s very hard to hitchhike if there are three dozens of riotcops right next to you…
A brave english guy finally picked me up and brought me on the A1 south of Lille. There I waited a long time and finally talked over a wicked woman who tried to give me a bible in french. With her I ve got to a gas station on the A26 direction south and from there I basicly hopped just from one car into the next one and got back on sunday night.



