{"id":5279,"date":"2013-05-03T01:34:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2013-05-03T01:34:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:34:51","slug":"a-big-thumbs-up-traveller-hitchhikes-100000-miles-around-the-world-without-spending-any-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=5279","title":{"rendered":"A big thumbs up: Traveller hitchhikes 100,000 miles around the world without spending any money"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"t19\"<\/a>Frenchman Jeremy Marie has spent five years travelling over 100,000 miles around the world, relying all the way on the kindness of strangers for a free ride.<\/p>\n

From trekking in 50C heat through the deserts of Sudan to braving temperatures of -20C while catching a lift in Kazakhstan, Mr Marie has visited over 71 countries.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old globetrotter has hitched lifts with cars, boats, planes and even a donkey since he set off from Caen, Normandy in October 2007.<\/p>\n

Remarkably despite his 180,000km trip, Jeremy has not paid a penny towards his transport and instead relied on the generosity of strangers to give him a free ride.<\/p>\n

During his trip he hitchiked and sofa surfed his way across Europe, USA, South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and plenty more in between.<\/p>\n

He said: ‘My passion for travelling came when I stayed with a Polish family as part of a school foreign exchange trip.<\/p>\n

‘I like to hitchhike, it’s a good way to meet people and you get to see the world from a local’s point of view and see and experience things a tourist wouldn’t usually be able to.<\/p>\n

‘Some countries are very easy to hitchhike around, New Zealand was great the people are very friendly, the roads are good and there was no danger of miscommunication.<\/p>\n

‘But it was difficult in the US as it’s against the law to hitchhike there, so people were very reluctant to stop and offer me a lift.’<\/p>\n

‘Sometimes I felt scared, there’s good and bad people everywhere and so you have to be careful about who you choose to trust when you’re hitchhiking.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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