Fabzgy´s Life

Last Wednesday a traveler I ve met in Zaragozza in the Hostel visited me here in Teningen for a few days. She came over because I told here that I was going to hitchhike from Zaragozza to Freiburg. She was pretty interested in this hitchhiking thing and we decided to hitchhike to Paris together since she wanted to visit Paris anyway and I was about to meet some friends who studied with me in Costa Rica in the first semester.
So I was pretty optimistic since I ve done this trip several times already but I was not prepared for what we experienced. It was my worst hitchhiking ever. We made it on the first day just from Teningen to Strasbourg that means 75 km and we hitchhiked 7 hours.
It was absolutely awefull. I wa already about to go to the train station and go back home but she still wanted to get to Paris. So I called some people from the Hospitality Club and arranged an accommodation for both of us. Our hosts were super nice. We had dinner and a great breakfast together, nice conversations and lots of fun.
The next day I followed the Hitchwiki recommendation and took the train for 15 km out of town in order to get to a gas station on the highway.
From there on we had a ride until “Longeville” which is 30 km before Metz. There we stood almost 1,5 hours again and she was already upset and wanted to go to a train station when this very cool arabian guy turned up an dbrought us to the next gas station after Metz doing a detour and he bought us food even though we always said that we are fine and don t need food or coffee. Anyway he brought us to this gas station which was unfortunately on the wrong side of the highway. I ve thought that we would be fucked again but after 10 min we ve got a ride alomst till Reims and from there a german car took us right into Paris. SO in the end the second day was not so bad but it s a shame that we needed two day to get to Paris. All my friends in Paris were laughing at me when I told them the story.
Nevertheless we had plenty of fun in Paris remembering good old times in Central America and cycling around with Velib.
This morning at 7 am I ve took the TGV train to Strasbourg and from there I came here with local trains. It took me less then 4 hours to sit here on my laptop in my room but I ve spent as well around 90 €. When I did this travel in 2006 I ve payed 30 € less. It s nice to have fast trains like the TGV but I don t like that they removed the slower and cheaper alternatives.

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