On the road
Describe the best road trip you’ve ever taken
Hitch-hiking from Athens to Brussels with only five dollars, a loaf of bread and a carrot to my name. Slept mostly on building sites. Got surrounded by Yugoslav military with machine guns for picking firewood in a military zone.
Got drunk three times – toasting Greece and Britain co-operation during the war, an American soldier feeding me bottled beer on an empty stomach and rather sadly shared a bottle with a guy on his 21st birthday, stuck in a miserable field in Belgium.
An amazing number of people gave me food on the journey including an old lady who gave me fruit, another hitch-hiker gave me some tins of fruit, which I shared with a customs official, who then stopped all cars until someone gave me a lift; a German who had been a prisoner of war and insisted of buying me a meal.
I was able to buy more food using my dollars at an American military base.
Then ended up in a down and out hostel in the centre of Brussels waiting for some cash to be wired through from a bank from the folks. Crossed the Channel drinking champagne with an extremely rich businessman.
A great trip.