No lust for Ludwig - Mad hitch to Hamburg
Hmm, armed with a fucked up nose and my Poznan sign I headed to the suburbs to hitch to Germany. 30 minutes later and a truck driver picked me up, after a while I discover that he´s heading all the way to Germany and will drop me off on the Berliner Ring.. perfect. We stop for an hour in Glowno (small Polish village near the beginning of the motorway), he asks if I´m coming out or staying in the truck.. thinking we were heading to the trucker´s bar, I agreed to come but I didn´t know we were going for a hike through Glowno looking for the police station to get some paperwork and then stocking up on sausages! Over an hour later, we return from the snow and get going again. As it gets darker, he realises that he won´t make the border in time for his rest, so we stop off at the BP garage just 2km from Nevada (legendary truck stop), waiting there on the corner of the road in the dark (for some reasons the lights around me weren´t working) wasn´t perfect but eventually a guy going to Rzepin stopped. He dropped me off at the last petrol station before the roads split and the hitching becomes a catasrophy (apparently).. hmm this station was no Nevada but a dodgy dodgy place full of drugged road prostitutes and a very drunk/stoned pimp who was being generally abusive and hit one of the girls in the face, then walked over to me and seemed to want to do the same but one of the girls managed to calm him down. It wasn´t an ideal place to get a ride from but things don´t get any better any closer to the border, they just get darker. The police came and the pimp with two of the girls went into hiding, not quite sure what they were in trouble for but they were running around the station hiding behind all the trucks before they eventually got caught and taken away.
After that it all calmed down, the well behaved girls which were allowed to stay by the police, were at a seperate area to me and it wasn´t long before a car stopped but it was a crazy skinhead guy who got a bit pissed off by the fact I was heading for Germany. Few minutes later and a small truck stopped, ah saviour! A nice dude from Warsaw who spoke good English, German and Polish.. his wife was an English teacher and he had a small business, he dropped me off at the Orlen station just before the border after trying to get rides for me on his CB radio.
Walk to the border and over it and this German Border guard starts shouting at me, however - he´s a happy fellow and just wants to help me get a lift.. so the first car he asks took me to Michendorf.. hmm I hate the Berliner Ring, it´s not the ideal place to get a ride to Hamburg and surprisingly it´s empty. I decide to walk in to Michendorf and find the local train station, not too difficult but I went flying down a bank which I thought was a path and turned out to be a water run-off... I also noticed steps opposite.. bollox.
Arrived 10 minutes before one of the last trains to Berlin, great.. no one checks tickets at this time on an empty suburb Berlin train.. straight to Berlin HBF and then get the S-bahn to Pankow is the idea. However.. I get to Gesundbrunnen and the fucking S-bahn finishes (eh, I don´t remember it closing for a few hours?!) oh well.. I have a two hour walk to Pankow and then there´s still nothing happening so I walk a bit further and wait for a few hours in the cold. By now it´s 5 am and I´m a bit pissed off, not to mention freezing, so I remembered there was a train leaving Berlin Hbf at 5.59, hop on to a bus, then the early morning S-bahn and back to HBf, where I was about 4.5 hours before.
I have to get to Hamburg for this flight which leaves at 12:10 and the train would get in to Hamburg at 8-00.. not bad! The plan was to pretend that I had lost my ticket and hope that people would help me around me, gah.. the guy didn´t check for about 35 minutes and then went crazy at me and told me I had to get off.. non of these early business morning commuting cunts would help me, even though I was trying to explain I#d miss my flight. Bastard people! I get thrown off in Wittenberger, walk around trying to find my way out and finally get a lift to Perleberg, where another car picks me up.. he#s heading somewhere near Ludwiglust (the only place on my map) but he said that I´d never get to Hamburg in time so took me to a truck depot where a truck was leaving for Kiel. Turns out he meant at 9.30 and not 8.30. By the time, it was loaded and we left it must have been about 10. FUCK, I´ve missed my flight :(
The guy dropped me off at a service station, where it was impossible to get a lift.. not sure if it was because of my fucked up nose, because I looked like shit or what but a fat woman agreed to take me before realising she had to go to the restaurant first..she said if I was still there when she came out, she´d take me but she must have forgotten about me because she just drove off. GRR! Eventually a nice british guy took me to Hamburg and dropped me off quite close to Felix´s house. AH, I´d given up on the idea of hitching down to Switzerland and onwards, it would never work as Pinnochio.
I´ve booked another flight for Friday and I#m just hanging around Felix#s place until tomorrow morning without any money! ha, what a nice guest.
After that it all calmed down, the well behaved girls which were allowed to stay by the police, were at a seperate area to me and it wasn´t long before a car stopped but it was a crazy skinhead guy who got a bit pissed off by the fact I was heading for Germany. Few minutes later and a small truck stopped, ah saviour! A nice dude from Warsaw who spoke good English, German and Polish.. his wife was an English teacher and he had a small business, he dropped me off at the Orlen station just before the border after trying to get rides for me on his CB radio.
Walk to the border and over it and this German Border guard starts shouting at me, however - he´s a happy fellow and just wants to help me get a lift.. so the first car he asks took me to Michendorf.. hmm I hate the Berliner Ring, it´s not the ideal place to get a ride to Hamburg and surprisingly it´s empty. I decide to walk in to Michendorf and find the local train station, not too difficult but I went flying down a bank which I thought was a path and turned out to be a water run-off... I also noticed steps opposite.. bollox.
Arrived 10 minutes before one of the last trains to Berlin, great.. no one checks tickets at this time on an empty suburb Berlin train.. straight to Berlin HBF and then get the S-bahn to Pankow is the idea. However.. I get to Gesundbrunnen and the fucking S-bahn finishes (eh, I don´t remember it closing for a few hours?!) oh well.. I have a two hour walk to Pankow and then there´s still nothing happening so I walk a bit further and wait for a few hours in the cold. By now it´s 5 am and I´m a bit pissed off, not to mention freezing, so I remembered there was a train leaving Berlin Hbf at 5.59, hop on to a bus, then the early morning S-bahn and back to HBf, where I was about 4.5 hours before.
I have to get to Hamburg for this flight which leaves at 12:10 and the train would get in to Hamburg at 8-00.. not bad! The plan was to pretend that I had lost my ticket and hope that people would help me around me, gah.. the guy didn´t check for about 35 minutes and then went crazy at me and told me I had to get off.. non of these early business morning commuting cunts would help me, even though I was trying to explain I#d miss my flight. Bastard people! I get thrown off in Wittenberger, walk around trying to find my way out and finally get a lift to Perleberg, where another car picks me up.. he#s heading somewhere near Ludwiglust (the only place on my map) but he said that I´d never get to Hamburg in time so took me to a truck depot where a truck was leaving for Kiel. Turns out he meant at 9.30 and not 8.30. By the time, it was loaded and we left it must have been about 10. FUCK, I´ve missed my flight :(
The guy dropped me off at a service station, where it was impossible to get a lift.. not sure if it was because of my fucked up nose, because I looked like shit or what but a fat woman agreed to take me before realising she had to go to the restaurant first..she said if I was still there when she came out, she´d take me but she must have forgotten about me because she just drove off. GRR! Eventually a nice british guy took me to Hamburg and dropped me off quite close to Felix´s house. AH, I´d given up on the idea of hitching down to Switzerland and onwards, it would never work as Pinnochio.
I´ve booked another flight for Friday and I#m just hanging around Felix#s place until tomorrow morning without any money! ha, what a nice guest.
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