I am still in Portugal, so this blog's title is getting increasingly more inappropriate. Wondering if I should change it into something else, wondering who is really reading it.The Hitchgathering was a complete success for me. I met stupendous drivers, took the right routes, met randomly with amazing people at random gas stations in the middle of nowhere. Crossing France was a success, hitching in Spain was not so bad after all, and Portugal is really beautiful. We managed to gather around 80 people in Sines, all with amazing stories to tell. The locals were great, we went to the market to dumpster dive and people started giving us boxes full of stuff. We fed everyone with nearly no money, and with very poor facilities, Amilyn, I and other volunteers cooked food for the masses in a big pot on a barbeque grill. But the best part was the post-gathering, when a group of 15-20 people got together and continued South along the Alentejo coast and reached a cave on a beach near Porto Covo. We stayed there 3 days, partying, swimming, exchanging stories, cooking on a bonfire. I didn't want to leave, but now I am in beautiful Coimbra, in a "república", i.e. a students' commune where people pay almost no rent, and being CouchSurfing in the summer so hard, here you can just knock on a door to experience the renowned Portuguese hospitality. Heading somewhere North tomorrow looking for Robin, who didn't make it to Sines, and then somewhere East across Spain, maybe to Italy. Valentina and I will probably have to drop the idea to go to Serbia for the Guca festival, due to lack of time.
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