Party Vibe

@Moonie 404327 wrote:

Well, got here in a record time of 13 hours.

Got picked up by:
Zany haired old bloke with a van full of fox teddies and stickers for the league against cruel sports.
Scouser in a beemer who runs the tube network facilities.
Very racist (not fun) scouser in a Transit who drove a bulldozer.
Oldish geeky guy who like motorbikes and ran a holiday complex in cockermouth until it was flooded.
A lorry recovery lorry, towing a truck cab behind it, which was cool.
And a bloke who’d been down to Dudley, an hour and a half from me, that day, to buy racing pigeons which he had in the back of the car.

Lovely 🙂

sounds pretty fun actually!

@Moonie 404369 wrote:

Normally takes about 20 hours spread over 2 days, I take a tent and camp wherever I end up when the traffic runs out.

She lives just outside the city centre in a house by all the student halls.

I had to stifle the laughter when he said he was going as far as Cockermouth, thought he was propositioning me at first :yakk:

It’s always an adventure, although the way back can be a pain in the arse.

have u ever been stopped by the police? have only ever hitch hiked once and that was only to the train station from secret garden party this year.

@Moonie 404412 wrote:

The Highways Agency tend to make an appearance if I’m at a motorway junction rather than a service station. The conversation generally goes:
Them: You can’t do that here.
Me: Yes I can, this is a public byway.
Them: It’s illegal to hitch here.
Me: Well as I know that it’s not, and that even if it was you have no power over me, are you really going to call a proper policeman all the way out to the motorway to tell you that what I’m doing is perfectly legal?
This is then followed by a grumbly lecture and they go on their way.

Plenty of police cars have come past, they know I’m not doing anything wrong.

Come the revolution, the Highways Agency will be first up against the wall.

i did actually think it was illegal to hitchhike but apparently not..

From Wikipedia..

Hitchhiking is a historically common practice worldwide, and hence there are very few places in the world where laws exist to restrict it. However, a minority of countries have laws that restrict hitchhiking at certain locations.[1] In the United States, for example, some local governments have laws to outlaw hitchhiking, with safety being the stated reason. In 1946, New Jersey arrested and imprisoned a hitchhiker leading to intervention by ACLU.[2] In Canada, several highways have restrictions on hitchhiking, particularly in British Columbia and the 400-series highways in Ontario. In all countries in Europe it is legal to hitchhike, and in some places even encouraged. However it is illegal to hitchhike where pedestrians are banned, such as motorways (United Kingdom), Interstates (United States), or the Autobahn (Germany).

@smokeitup 404419 wrote:

…..so maybe the highway agency are correct. but i think your right, i doubt they would call a coppe all the way out just to tell you to move on. sounds like Europe as a hole are very relaxed with Hitchhiking

I always always told it was just illegal on motorways. But presumably thats because your not allowed to be on the motorway on foot.