{"id":113,"date":"2014-06-30T17:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T20:20:27","slug":"the-hitch-hiking-experience-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/the-hitch-hiking-experience-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The hitch-hiking experience pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">On June 15, 2014, after a few days in Brussels, I headed towards Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I followed the directions in Hitchwiki and went to <a href=\"http:\/\/hitchwiki.org\/en\/Brussels#Drogenbos\">Drogenbos<\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">But I walked all the way to the station instead of asking for a ride to the station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This time I was more prepared, with a list of the good stations I could stop at on the way to Paris. After a while I got a ride on a van. It was two French guys from a rock band that had played in a festival near Brussels. They took me to a good station, Saint-Ghislain, close to Mons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140615_140810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140615_140810-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"20140615_140810\" width=\"474\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140615_140810-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140615_140810-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some 15 minutes I got a ride directly to Paris with 2 women. That was much easier that the previous hhiking day.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris they left me close to a Metro Station, it was easy to find myself. I still had no internet connection \u00a0though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 15, 2014, after a few days in Brussels, I headed towards Paris. I followed the directions in Hitchwiki and went to Drogenbos.\u00a0But I walked all the way to the station instead of asking for a ride to the station. This time I was more prepared, with a list of the good stations I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/the-hitch-hiking-experience-pt-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The hitch-hiking experience pt. 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hitch-hiking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}