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http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/criminalising-the-homeless-is-a-new-low-for-london-733?utm_source=vicefbuk Fining People £1,000 for Being Homeless Is a New Low for London June 4, 2015 by Mark Wilding A homeless man in Hackney (Photo by Tom Johnson) Imagine you have almost nothing in the...

How is it getting god food and flying signs in europe? Is there anything specifically different that we should know to make sure we get by?

What a great idea!! Put the food to good use!! _________________ France to force big supermarkets to give away unsold food to charity Supermarkets will have to take measures to prevent food waste and will be forced to donate unsold but edible food to charity or for use as animal feed The...

France's most famous and beloved actor, ever!

Hi! Just wanna share some photos I took while backpacking UK/Ireland: First Trip - Sept/Oct 2014 Second Trip - Dec 2014/Jan 2015 Cheers!

If anyone knows how to get in contact with a Sami family which may be a long shot but its worth a try. I would love to do whatever i can to be a part of that. to just be able to help.

http://www.theplaidzebra.com/a-potential-bridge-between-russia-and-alaska-could-lead-to-the-ultimate-road-trip/ A potential bridge between Russia and Alaska could lead to the ultimate road trip April 20, 2015 BY: ZOE MELNYK A road trip stretching from New York City all the way to London could...

but i havent gotten a visa yet. i dont get there til the 27th of may which is still pretty close i guess. i need to have a tour booked but id really not like to do the typical tourist shit of course. there has to be some rad groups out there doing shit. anything at all would be rad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-32332473 By News from Elsewhere... Mr Jedlicka (left) says Liberland's finer details, including a constitution, will be sorted out in the near future A Czech man claims to have established a new state on the west bank of the Danube, it's...

Hey community, At the end of April I will be hitching from NY to TX for the first time in the states. I am stoked to see how this goes and hopeful to meet other drifting types along the way. If anyone knows of other travelers going a similar way I would love to connect and maybe share stories...

Pretty cool - I'm sure there will be more out there on this with some better video. _______________________ http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/2/8128587/eiffel-tower-wind-turbines-photo-essay The Eiffel Tower has new wind turbines, and they're beautiful Paris' most iconic monument goes green The...

After finding this forum and watching pics and videos, I just looked at on my own old videos, and thought perhaps its nice to share two here :) and Cheers, Tobi

Hey guys, I`m planing on going from germany to france and spain. I was just wondering if anyone has some rather up to date information on the conductours practice if you don`t pay for your tickets on trains. The hitchwiki suggests that they will just take your personal information and that´s...

Hi! I uploaded some photos I took while being on my trip to England last month: https://squattheplanet.com/media/albums/trip-to-england-january-2015.1144/ Newest pictures are first (unfortunately), so to have it in the right sequence, begin with page 4 ... Cheers!

I wrote an article on my website dedicated to the difference between hitchhiking in the USA and Europe. Hope it's useful for you. Feedback appreciated. http://chrisroad.com/guides/the-difference-in-hitchhiking-between-the-usa-and-europe/

I have a little squat in Latvia. It's called "Tenth Bunker" Every second friday we do the "Poetry Evening" Here's the link to bunker https://www.facebook.com/desmitais

According to this article on hitchwiki http://hitchwiki.org/en/Schengen_Agreement citizens of Canada and a few other countries are legally able to work while in the country. They cite a French government website, and upon reading further, it seems that citizens of those countries are allowed...

I'm currently planning on hitting up europe sometime in the fall of next year or spring 2016, but am running into obstacles with my dog. We have hitch hiked all across America together and are about to go through Canada after the winter, and simply getting rid of him to go to Europe isn't an...

Hi! Just uploaded a few (more or less interesting) pictures taken on my trip to UK/Ireland ... https://squattheplanet.com/gallery/albums/trip-to-uk-ireland.251/ Cheers!

View from Barcelos today, down to my faithful little boat :D

Hi ... Finally I made it to UK. Got from Cologne to Maastricht (Netherlands) then to Leuven (Belgium) then to Lille (France) and then to Calais and took the ferry to Dover. Quite conventinally travelling (passenger train, hostels) but Ill try to hitch out of dover to canterbury tomorrow. :)

Any people in Prague/Praha ?

So, I'm heading off to Bucharest in a few days and I was wondering if there's anywhere nice I could go to. I'm mostly looking for a squat, an underground music scene etc. Only place I could find so far is "Carol 53".

Hi! I plan an England/Scotland trip in the last September weeks. First going from Cologne (Germany) to Calais (France), then by ferry to Dover. Then visit London for a day and travel through England and Scotland to Edinburgh. Finally back from there to Cologne by cheap flight. That's the rough...

hey y'all! i'm headed to Portugal in a few days and I can't seem to find any info about radical spaces/squats/anarchist hoopla in the country at all. does anyone have any info? I'm looking for a place to stay in Lisbon and beyond but also into hearing about rad spots to check out. thaaanks!

Hey everyone, Glad to see the forums are alive. Next summer I'll be making a voyage to the old world, my experience traveling internationally is void and I'm hoping someone here with a few deep notches under their belt could chime in and help paint this picture for me.... I will be traveling...

Hi all, As I mentioned in another thread, I'm currently in Ukraine and will be making my way down to Istanbul shortly, then plan on hitching/camping across Turkey through most of July. From what I read on hitchwiki, it's paradise. Not planning on spanging or getting too shwilly, although yes...

Any people from the uK fancy a cheap as feck hitching/ hopping trave beginning in England, maybe the north? then heading out into europe. I I've got a fair amount of experience hitching in this country and I think freight hopping is also posible over here and I've got some idea how depending...

Me and a good friend of mine are planning on doing a hitchhiking trip this summer. We want to visit some friends along the way and eventually end up in Athens. To get back, we want to hitch to Sofia, Bulgary and then take a cheap plane ticket back to the Netherlands. We are planning on taking a...

This is a universal post for European cities, London happens to appeal to me. Is it possible to move to one of these cities and start a new life? I'll do whatever it takes to survive somewhere else, besides killing. How difficult is it to relocate somewhere with nothing and stay there without...

Matt Derrick submitted a new file to the downloads area: Squatting in Europe: Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles - Moving beyond the conventional understandings of squatting in Europe over the past 40 years. Click here to learn more about this file...

Planning a trip through Europe in June. Anyone interested in joining? I'll start in Austria and probably head south, though the route isn't defined as of now. Pretty much wherever we feel like going. Let me know.

Just thought I would try my hand at posting current community relative events. Thirty arrested as rioting continues at Can Vies building in Barcelona Demolition of unofficial grassroots civic centre, occupied in 1997, provokes widespread unrest in poor area of city and beyond The unrest around...

Words kind of fail me having just watched this video and read the article. I feel pretty thankful for what I have got. http://www.channel4.com/news/romania-tunnels-bucharest-orphans-photo Beneath the streets of Romania's capital, a living hell PARAIC O'BRIEN Reporter Deep under the streets...

ive been here a few weeks, andalucia, madrid, currently barcelona. may or may not hit southern france soon. diggin the vibes here, lookin for more! que paso?

Hi there. Going to hitchhike/hop freight trains across Europe during Summer, probably starting in early June. Anyone interested in joining me? No definite route as of now. Just trying to spend the better part of the Summer on the road/tracks. Also trying to spend as little money as possible...

So it looks like I could be headed to France in the next couple of weeks. Will be driving from the UK. I am taking my ex boyfriend to his parents where he is going to stay until he's 'cleaned' his act up. I'm not imagining this to be a fun journey. 12 hours in a car + however long on a ferry...

World gathering is in Hungary, June 27 ish to late July ish.. Forget the exact dates.... The European gathering is soon after, also for a month, in Romania. Curious if anyone is thinking of going? I'll likely be stopping at the world gathering for a little bit as I head back West in...

Hi guys, I'm programming opensource and living in squats around Europe. My work gets a lot of attention from the media (working with Bitcoin) so I give a lot of exposure for the squat movement and what we're trying to achieve. Here's a sample of photos/videos from things I'm involved with. BBC...

For sale: one Spanish village, free to the right owner A Barca, a 15th-century hamlet in northern Spain, is being offered free of charge to anyone willing to restore it. And it is far from the only village for sale in Spain … One of the abandoned hamlets for sale in Spain. Photograph: Miguel...

I had this nice dream, or more of an aim, to reach America per boat. I've read a lot about it now, and I must say that I don't think I'll ever get to that dream and I guess I will just simply buy a plane ticket to cross the Atlantic ocean. Although I do not know yet where I would like to start...

http://www.ultraeurope.com/home . Coming? :D

Hey folks. I'm a US citizen and I'm leaving Slovakia because I overstayed my tourist visa. I'm hoping to find a squat in Europe outside the Schengen, preferably in Croatia but really anywhere is fine. Also if anybody's in my neighborhood and wants to hitch down with me I'd love some company. I'm...

I am Eva, 48. I am an outsider "underground" artist living in hungary. i was growin' up in germany /Essen, Ruhr area/ lived in 1989-90 in Berlin, the Kreuzberg district as a squatter. i also lived in a wagenburg at nowhere's land. Now i wanna leave this intolerant conservative country without...

i am starting to wonder if this is my only option. the first thing that comes to mind is by boat, but i dont know if its doable. also, if i get in trouble with the police, what would happen? would i get sendt back here? is there any control when going of the boat? ive hopped a boat once before...

i wasnt sure where to post this, but this looked like the best place. can anyone here whos been living on the streets in both europe and america tell me the difference? im planning on going to america and just living there/ traveling the place, but i dont really have any experience. im going...

John McAfee designed the McAfee Anti-Virus Software that comes on all laptops before going batshit crazy, murdering someone in Belize, and fleeing a protracted manhunt to settle in the Montreal Art Scene. Here is his guide to third world travel: http://www.whoismcafee.com/the-travel-guide/

Was wondering if anyone knew of any decent blogs of folks traveling in Europe? Looking more for dirty broke punk sorta approach rather than your standard backpacker with a planned journey and staying in hostels etc. haha.

I hate winter and this shitty English weather. Me and a couple mates are gonna hitch through France to Barcelona and then probably head to southern Spain after that. Anyone know any cool places for dirty broke punx to go check out? we're taking our instruments with us to busk. We play folk...

Hi, I`m looking for a hitchhiking travel partner for sometime early upcoming year. Open for both low and medium Budget, "hardcore" or not traveling :) Open for all sugestions. Im from Norway btw :)