Yesterday we started quite late from Berlin, around 4pm. We tried to get lifts at this way too busy, way too fast, way too many lanes carriage way towards south for way too long time. Eventually a backpacker that just came back from South America picked us up with his rental car. He said something about being sick of travelling by trains and that he is in a hurry, so he rented a car. Good for us, we got ultrafast to Dresden. Just before Dresden we got a lift through the city. Waiting for it Randy and Lutra from Carbusters passed by in a local bus on their way to Berlin. A small hitchhikers world, eh?
Outside Dresden a roadman picked us up with his pick up (haha). Some kilometers towards the border, standing one hour in the dreaded “DW” registration plate place (don’t ask). Playing Frisbee beside the road, across the border with a sports diver from Dresden that was going to get cheaper and better petrol in the Czech Republic. Just after the border, it was getting dark, a worldly wise professor for statistical physics picked us up and speeded towards Prague. He was telling us about his wild hitchhiking youth in 68/69 and the Russian occupation of the Prague spring.
In Prague Roeland and Janneke, two Dutch living in the Czech Republic picked us up at our dropping point and went for a beer with us. 30c for a good beer! Sorry, had to mention this..