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25. I did a lot of hitch-hiking around

Sat Jun 13, 2026, 06:09 PM

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the UK. Always got along with the Welsh and Scottish folk... the English were sometimes a little harder to like. I only did a week in Ireland so didn't really get a sense of the folk there. And though it's totally anecdotal, every single French person i met was a total ass. Though this was the early 90s and i was at the time a dreadlocked backpacking traveler with piercings... and totally "skint"! Sometimes i was not well received.

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