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CHRONICLE 1999

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30 12 1999 - 02 01 2000 Six hitchers went to Warsaw (PL), where they celebrated New Year 2000. (photos)

10-12 12 1999 6 VHHC's hitchers traveled to Latvian cities: Riga, Kolka.

26-28 10 1999 9 hitchers from VHHC and 5 from Siauliai traveled to to Kaliningrad (RUS) and Vyslinskiy Bay region in Poland. The main goal was to visit Polish side of peninsula which separate Baltic Sea and Vyslinskiy Bay. The main town in this penisula was Krynica Morska. (short Vladas' story, photos)

12-14 10 1999 Vladas Sapranavicius traveled to Belarus, where he met few leaders of Belarus HHC "Sky Division" and looked around the capital of BY - Minsk. (short Vladas' story)

09 10 1999 Vladas Sapranavicius and Aiste Kesminaite participated in competition organised by Kaunas hitch-hiking club "Kelio broliai". (short Vladas' story)

08-24 10 1999 Asta Gulijeva and Vilma Patalavičiūtė traveled to Valensia (Spain).

02 10 1999 The 3rd birthday of VHHC. We had 27 participants from 3 countries (Lithuania, Russia, Latvia). Vladas Sapranavicius was granted as the Best Male Traveller of the VHHC's year (26'970 km). Inga Garnyte was granted as the Best Female Traveller of the VHHC's year. The travel story about adventures in Austria by Edvardas Sakalauskas, was granted as the Story of a Year. English story about Iran and Pakistan by Vladas won the 3rd place.

25 09 1999 We took part in the 2nd NGO presentation at the Vilnius' town hall's square. In this presentation were about 100 non-governmental organisations. (photos)

16 09 1999 In the most popular monthly journal for girls "Panele" was published a big story about VHHC expedition to Iran last July.

11 09 1999 The 5th VHHC's competition. The route: Vilnius - Klaipeda - Vilnius (880 km). 6 pairs took part. After the competition 2 hitchers were granted as the members of Lithuanian Hitch-hiking Team. (more detailed results)

30 08 1999 We presented new design for english version pages of VHHC.

27-29 08 1999 Eight members of VHHC visited Latvia again. They were in Riga, Jurmala and Sidgunda.

12-15 08 1999 Three members of VHHC (Vladas, Laurynas and Vilius) travelled to Kaliningrad district (Russia). There was a meeting with local hitch-hiking club and good time on the sea shore.

07-15 08 1999 Vicepresident of VHHC Augustas Kligys traveled to Budapest and Bakonybel town (Hungary) for taking part in Rainbow Gathering and observing of Eclipse. (photos)

04-05 08 1999 VHHC had guest from Brno(CZ) Pavel Jiri Trcala. He is famous, because he made two hitch-hiking records: he were hitching in the largest number of countries (50) and during 24 h he went 2777 km!

08-11 07 1999 VHHC had guests from Riga (Latvia). It was two active hitch-hikers - Agnese and Kristina. From Lithuania they hitch-hiked to Germany and Italy.

03 07 1999 National Slovenian radio station VAL 202 broadcasted program about hitch-hiking. Also there were some fragments from the interview with the vicepresident of VHHC, Augustas Kligys, which was traveling in Slovenia few weeks ago.

03 07 - 01 08 1999 Laurynas Ivinskis finished his travel in Europe cities: Berlin(D), Prague(CZ), Hamburg(D), Copenhagen(DK), Bergen(N), Amsterdam(NL), Paris(F).

03-31 07 1999 Club's president Vladas Sapranavicius and member Inga Garnyte made an expedition to Iran and Pakistan. The best country for hitch-hiking was Turkey. (story, photos)

02 07 - 29 08 1999 VHHC Media Representative's Andrius Sytas' travel in Europe. He visited 14 countries.

03 07 - 07 08 1999 Andrius Jankaitis was traveling in Europe, Turkey and Greece.

03-29 07 1999 Domas Dumse and Aiste Kesminaite had tour around Poland, Czech, Austria, Germany, France, Swiss, Italy and Luxembourg. They enjoyed Swiss.

25-27 06 1999 The 3rd Lithuanian Hitch-hikers Meeting took place. There were 29 participants from Lithuania, Russia and Latvia. From VHHC there were 13 hitchers (among 29).

12-29 06 1999 VHHC's vicepresident Augustas Kligys has been traveling in Slovenia and Paris. (photos)

18-20 06 1999 3 pairs of VHHC hitchers travel to Kaliningrad (RUS), Malbork, Gdansk and Sopot (PL). There was a meeting with leaders of Kaliningrad HHC. Also there was one Russian participant - Anton Oumnikov, webmaster of HH site "TRASSA".

28-30 05 1999 Lithuanian and Latvian hitchers meeting in Latvia. 6 hitchers from VHHC and 6 hitchers from Riga have visited Riga and Sigulda.

08-09 05 1999 5 hitchers from IHHC took part in Kaunas Hitch-hiking Club "Kelio broliai" meeting near lake Dusia.

08 05 1999 VHHC presented it's activity for inhabitants of Vilnius in vilnius NGO exibition "Do not say, that nothing is going on in Vilnius..."

24-25 04 1999 The 5th non-professional hitch-hiking competition "Baltija '99" ("Baltic '99") were organised by VHHC.

23 04- 06 05 1999 Two members of VHHC, Valdas Juzelskis and Vytautas Vytartas travel to Russia - Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

01 04 1999 Was activated domain www.autostop.lt.

31 03 - 06 04 1999 VHHC's members Albertas Agejevas and Aiste Kesminaite travel to Saint Petersburg.

24 03 1999 VHHC's members appoints member Andrius Sytas as the club's representative for press.

11-13 03 1999 VHHC's members meeting near Naantali (West Finland). 7 hitchers took part.

06-07 03 1999 VHHC organised the 3rd International Hitch-hiking Conference in Vilnius. There were about 70 participants from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, Poland and Australia.

03 03 1999 VHHC's members appoints member Domas Dumse as the club's Finances' manager.

24 02 1999 VHHC opened the bank account in "Vilniaus Bankas".

24 02 1999 Signed a treaty between VHHC and The State Council of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania for supporting of International Hitch-hiking Conference.

20 01 1999 VHHC's members appoints vicepresident Augustas Kligys as the club's representative in Denmark for a half a year.


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