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73Living on the Road - Stage 8: Traveling from Bulgaria to Germany
Coming from Bulgaria, I first hitchhiked without any problems to the Serbian capital Belgrade where I spent one night couchsurfing. But my final destination in this country was Kanizsa, a small town close to the Hungarian border where I wanted to...
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81Living on the Road - Stage 7: Bulgaria
In the late 1970s and 1980s I had visited Bulgaria several times, traveling to different places by hitchhiking, in the 1990s and early 2000s I was a regular visitor of the Varna Jazz Festival. Now, after almost a decade, I came back to visit this...
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78Living on the Road - Stage 6: Traveling from Estonia to Bulgaria
The nights were still cold in Estonia, but during the day you could feel the first warm spring sunshine, and so I decided to open the new hitchhiker season. I hitchhiked without problems from Tartu to the Latvian border, but in the afternoon it was...
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74Living on the Road - Stage 5: Estonia
In the 1990s and 2000s I had visited the smallest of the three Baltic countries several times to attend the jazz festival in Pärnu, or I stopped by many times in the capital Tallinn, on my way to or from Finland. But that were short visits, no...
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62Hitchhikers Lullaby - A Poem
(seventeen months on the road today) 300 miles on the road today there is no bed where I can stay I find a place under a giant tree mother nature is protecting me three other travelers are already there we have a lot of things to share ...
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67The Man from the North - A Tribute to Jazz Saxophonist Vladimir Rezitsky
It happened in 1981. I attended the Leipzig Jazz Days, one of the biggest jazz events at that time in Eastern Germany. Well known musicians from all parts of Europe and the United States performed at this festival, and there were jam sessions which...
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69Half a Century on Stage - Free Jazz Legend Peter Brötzmann celebrates his 70th Birthday
Peter Brtzmann 2010 "Maybe in '66 or '68 we had the idea of changing the world a little bit with the music or the arts, but that is a thing of impossibility. What you can do is convince a person from time to time to think differently about...
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70Living on the Road - Stage 4: Traveling from Denmark to Estonia
Winter has come with cold and snow. My winter clothes are in Lithuania. I wanted to be back in Lithuania much earlier, but then I stayed much longer than expected in Denmark. When I arrived in the German port city of Rostock late in the evening by...
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78Living on the Road - Stage 3: Denmark
In 2009 I had visited Bornholm Island for four days, and this was only the second time I visited Denmark. After a hitchhiking trip from the German border I arrived in Odense, Denmark's third biggest city, just in time to attend the last day of an...
8 comments75Living on the Road - Stage 2: Traveling from Lithuania to Denmark
I started this trip in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, and the first driver who picked me up and gave me a lift for about 100 km came from the Netherlands. He was on a trip around the Baltic Sea, so we had some experiences to share because I had...
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