The Birth of a Dream (Hitchhiking in Japan)
It sounds silly to say this now, but this website and the way that I now live my life, all came about as the result of a drunken night in Japan. This video is one of
By Jamie| 2013-12-13T01:57:03+00:00 June 1st, 2013|Thoughts and Inspiration|
Books are tangible things that you can hold in your hands. This is not. This story will be purely digital. After many long hours of hitting keys, my latest creation is nearing completion. Currently it
By Jamie| 2013-12-13T02:04:45+00:00 May 31st, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Photo|
Here are some things I found while hitchhiking. So many different things. Click here if you can't see the photos above.
By Jamie| 2014-03-10T19:13:22+00:00 April 29th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Video|
How to hitchhike? As I was hitchhiking, I learnt an awful lot that I didn't know before. While this video isn't serious, it does offer some useful advice. Advice that I never followed. Make your
By Jamie| 2013-12-16T11:23:27+00:00 April 24th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Photo|
As a follow-up to my original album, Postcards from Europe, here is another collection of places that I found along my hitchhiking way. Once again, you may not know them and most of them don't
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T04:20:50+00:00 April 19th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Photo|
Wherever you go in the world and whatever you do, you can find beauty in the simplest things. Hitchhiking around Europe, I found myself surrounded by places, people, and goings on that filled me with
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T04:26:30+00:00 April 15th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Photo|
As I hitchhiked through Europe I met hundreds, probably thousands of people. I was driven by over 2oo individuals and I slept in the houses of more than thirty strangers. Couple this with all the
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T04:41:59+00:00 April 11th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
My hitchhiking journey had brought me over 20,000 km and into Istanbul, the largest city of my trip. There were three of us at this point; a Brit, an American, and a Slovakian. Our Istanbul
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T05:00:19+00:00 April 5th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
After all the cheesy pastry I had been eating, I was not looking forward to much more of it. In Edirne, the girl that the three of us were staying with kindly said that she
By Jamie| 2013-12-17T05:04:36+00:00 April 2nd, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
There are certain things that travellers are invariably drawn to across the world. One is high places, be they natural or artificial. If there is a tower or a hill, you will find strangers at the
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T22:06:28+00:00 March 23rd, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
After spending a few days in a small Slovakian village, I should have learnt what it means to drink with a Slovakian. Unfortunately, I was not prepared. My good Slovakian friend had caught us up in
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T22:25:58+00:00 March 20th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
Romania behind us and still feeling cold in Serbia, we departed Belgrade quickly in the hope of finding warmer nights in Bulgaria and eventually Turkey. As ever, the sun is a hitchhikers best friend and my
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T22:21:49+00:00 March 18th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
What scares me most when hitchhiking, isn't the people. It's the condition of cars and the quality of driving. Or lack thereof. As my hitchhiking journey took me out of Romania, two lovely young men
By Jamie| 2013-12-21T23:41:50+00:00 March 11th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Thoughts and Inspiration|
Life is both a journey and an education. In 2012, I started hitchiking through Europe on my own. I have learnt a lot about the world from my travels and have an infinite amount more
By Jamie| 2014-03-10T19:12:27+00:00 March 10th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012, Video|
Don't you hate it when people take photos of their own face and post them on the internet? This is a movie that I made by doing exactly that. In 2012, I started hitchhiking through
By Jamie| 2013-12-27T00:51:44+00:00 February 11th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
My hitching journey had taken me to Romania. After the initial freak out about how dangerous Romania might be, my hitching partner settled down and we started to enjoy the country. We were somewhere way
By Jamie| 2018-03-01T09:47:57+00:00 February 4th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
Waving goodbye to Brno and struggling to find enough change for a bus, our hitchhiking journey took us from Czech Republic towards southern Hungary and the town of Szeged. At the border of Hungary, we
By Jamie| 2018-03-01T09:46:29+00:00 January 29th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
After our first night in the 8 people, 1 bed apartment, we headed into Berlin with great expectations. I was a little disappointed. I walked the full 1.3 km of East Side Gallery; part of the
By Jamie| 2018-03-01T09:45:28+00:00 January 27th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
Prague, one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I did not want to be there. To make matters worse, it was cold and I had not found anywhere to stay for the night,
By Jamie| 2018-03-01T09:45:04+00:00 January 26th, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
It was in a considerably more sober state that I continued on my hitchhiking journey. My Slovakian friend took me and my fellow hitcher into Bratislava for long enough to sit on a leaky beanbag
By Jamie| 2018-03-01T09:44:33+00:00 January 23rd, 2013|Euro Hitch 2012|
As my bruises healed, my two week stop-over in Budapest was done. It was time for me to continue my hitchhiking journey. The whole world was available to me and I only had to choose
By Jamie| 2018-02-25T10:39:45+00:00 December 18th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
I was in Budapest and my hitchhiking journey had already taken me through more than ten countries. On one of the first mornings in the city, I woke early and I wandered through the streets, marvelling
By Jamie| 2014-01-07T04:05:51+00:00 December 12th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012, Photo|
In continuation of my original album, photographs of people taking photographs, I have taken more photos of people while they are using their cameras as I continue my hitchhiking journey through Europe. Click the thumbnails
By Jamie| 2017-01-27T06:49:55+00:00 December 4th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012, Photo|
While hitching through 24 countries in Europe, I was often free-camping. I only slept outside seventeen times, but here are some of my favourite places that I slept. Not once was I disturbed or asked
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:34:58+00:00 November 28th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
Apparently a diverse range of people. In my 24 country hitchhike, I was picked up by 227 different vehicles. All people I had never met before. Before I started, I wondered how many people that
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:24:44+00:00 November 28th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
One issue each night is where to sleep while hitchhiking. During my 151 night hitchhiking journey through 24 countries, I used a combination of couchsurfing, free-camping, friends, family, renting a bed, sleeping while in transit.
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:24:50+00:00 November 27th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
Where have I been while hitchhiking? Below is a rough map of my wayward travels on this single journey. The total distance travelled was nearly 23,000 km (over 14,000 miles) during which time I passed
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:24:55+00:00 October 26th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
It took many hours to reach a small back street somewhere a few kilometres outside Split late at night. After many days of bread and cheese dinners, it was quite delicious to visit a supermarket
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:25:17+00:00 October 20th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
I was heading South. Then I decided to have dinner with my new Polish actor friend in Warszawa where I had just left. I turned around, headed north a few hundred kilometres and had a
By Jamie| 2013-12-08T19:25:21+00:00 October 9th, 2012|Euro Hitch 2012|
Through workaway, I had committed myself to spend the next week as part of language immersion program in Poland. I would speak English in exchange for a bed in a hotel and three meals a