Photos from day 8 until day 17

Final Day 17

The girls drove us right to the port in Germany. There we were really lucky, because the ferry was just about to leave. We asked the captain if we could come on the ferry, we don't have a ticket though but we're on a school project. He told us to enter and then we could explain her the project. She liked the idea and we got across to Switzerland for free and still had the money we earned yesterday! It was around 11 o'clock and we could only use the trains after 7pm, so we decided to hitchhike through the small villages in Switzerland. After 2 lifts and quite a bit of marching we arrived in Wil at 5pm. There we slept in the waiting area until our train arrived 19:10! Because I lost my wallet in England, I of course didn't have my Gleis 7 with me and they gave me a fine of 125Fr. I will probably not have to pay though, because I wrote an e-mail with an explanation to the office. In Zürich our Manuel and I split up and we arrived back home around 9pm. Safe, happy, not hungry, and with many many great memories and experiences!

Day 16

We got up quite early because Demet had to go to a course. The first bakery we then asked for food, gave us heaps of stuff. We even had an apple pie! After we have eaten all our food, we started to do some street music on the Königsstrasse. It worked pretty well, we earned a bit more than 13 Euros and two sausages. Then we thought about buying a train ticket back to Switzerland with this money. We didn't have enough so we tried to sell the ticket we got from the ladies the day before. The first girl Manuel asked, has heard from our story and started to laugh really loud. The two hitchhikers we met in Bristol, slept at her place the night before and told her about us. She was just about to go to the Bodensee and then asked if we wanted to join. Of course we did so and we made heaps of pasta on a fire. Then we all slept in her car, because it was rainy outside.

Day 15

We slept until very late and then cooked some more pasta, because the pasta the day before was so nice. Then we saw some guys from Jura in Switzerland. We of course asked them straight away and they were able to take us all the way to Metz. There we waited for some germans. After two hours of successful waiting we finally found a car that took us almost all the way to Stuttgart. We stopped in a shop and got some bread with meat. Then we got stuck in traffic, so they let us out and went another way home. Luckily a guy saw us getting out the car and could then take us all the way into the center of Stuttgart. We are really close from home now!
We probably looked really confused and two ladies tried to help us and gave us some train tickets as a present. Then we wanted to look for a tenting place when some students came and wanted to interview us. After we answered the questions we met Demet, who was nice enough to take us to her place. Finally sleeping on a couch again and not in the tent! And at last we could take a shower again. We did both need one!

Day 14

The first thing we did in the morning was looking for a bakery. After getting a bread we tried to hitchhike out of Calais. It was really difficult. After beeing unlucky for three hours, we started to walk along the railways towards the motorway. Finally a young french guy gave us a lift onto the motorway and left us with 2,20 Euros.
The next fuel station was 20 kilometres away. After a while we decided to walk there on the outside of the motorway. One hour later the police car stopped us and told us, it is forbidden to do that. We explained our situation and then they took us to the next service station and wished us luck. A couple from London then took us all the way to Reims. We decided to settle down there and started to cook some pasta on the gaz-cooker. It felt great to eat something else than bread after such a long time.We put up our tent behind the station and went to sleep!

Day 13

After climbing down the mountains we met some other hitchhikers from Germany. We ended up talking to them for hours. One of the guys, Daniel, is travelling the world with no money for almost six years. He had great storries to tell. He did some illegal things though to survive like that, but he was a very cool chap. In the evening we finally managed to get onto the ferry with some german guy. He left us in Calais and we put up our tent in the grass next to the hospital.

Day 12

It began to rain really early in the morning, so we had to get up very quickly. We were still not able to get past London, so we eventually went straight into Illford in east London with a guy. From there we walked to the trainstation and used all the money we had left over for a train ticket to Dartford. The man on the ticked office made a special offer for us, so it was just enough. Manu got some Bread and some Aples before we tried to hitchhike to Dover. After hours of trying to get a lift, we decided to walk these 50 km. But then we suddenly found a great road and got a lift to the next fuel station really easy. We were rescued at last! Then a couple took us all the way to Canterburry, where Emma, the first girl we asked, took us to Dover. We made a stop at McDonalds though and she gave us each a big portion of pommes frites. In Dover we tried to get a ferry, but it was already dark and noone stoped. We decided to put up our tent near the castle at the top of the cliffs. Bad idea though: We fighted our way through the bushes and fences for one whole hour. Still we could not arrive at the castle, so we just put up our tent on a grassslope, which made it really uncomfortable.