The 1st International Hitch-hiking Conference

The 1st International Hitch-hiking conference

Date: 15 February, 1997
Town: Warsaw (Poland)
Organiser: Vilnius Hitch-hiking Club
Participants: 13 hitch-hikers from Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Holland and Bosnia

The idea of the first conference belongs to Vladas Sapranavicius (President of VHHC) and Alexey Vorov (President of Saint Petersburg Autostop League). Any other clubs were invited. So there were 3 hitchers from PASL (Alexey Vorov, Sonya and Denis Petrov), 4 hitchers from VHHC (Vladas Sapranavicius, Augustas Kligys, Jovita Garnyte and Edvardas Sakalauskas), 3 hitchers from The Netherlands (Daan Toner, Sahin Sisic and Erik N. (journalist). Also there were some persons from Poland State travellers organisation.

Alexey Vorov advertised his project "World Hitch-hikers Trophy". Daan Toner presented his book "Europese Liftersgid" ("Hitch-hikers Guide to Europe").

After Vladas Sapranavicius offered an idea of creation of International Hitch-hiking Association.

After the conference hitchers went to a PUB in Old Town.

Some moments from the conference

Hitch-hikers Daan Toner from The Netherlands and Alexey Vorov, the President of Saint Petersburg Autostop League (PASL, Russia)

Discussions among participants