When I was young and probably foolish, I had a marvellous adventure hitichhiking with my first long term boyfriend. You can read about it in detail here. It was a wonderful memory to take forward and an experience which also helped me write this story about a long distance lorry driver who just happens to be a bigamist – based on my adopted father, actually.
I have already added the hitchhiking memoir to Wicked Wednesday before, so thought I’d write a short poem about the experience for this week’s prompt. I can’t say it’s my best poem – but I had fun writing it 🙂
3000 miles with hope in our hearts…
We hiked for 3000 miles
Across Europe from Athens to London –
Learning things along the way.
Looking for places to stay.
We left Athens in a lorry
And travelled through Greece –
Over the communist Yugoslavia borderline
fingers crossed that all would be fine
We stayed with a family in Belgrade
And marvelled at the clean streets –
Then before the curfew we took flight
safely in separate beds by midnight
On to Northern Italy for a day or two
We found a cheap room in Trieste –
Taking time out to visit the gondola city
it was springtime, so it looked and smelled pretty
On our way to Innsbrook in Austria
We hitched in a VW camper van –
The guys driving were sexy & ultra cool
I couldn’t help but flirt like a fool
They invited us to visit them in Munich
their flat had a bright green door –
They took us out to a nightclub
and to drink beer in a German pub
We stayed for nearly a week
Then found a ride through Belgium –
Finally, arriving to catch a ferry
feeling rather clever and merry
Our final stretch was from Dover
To a place called Sidcup in Kent –
We’d had a great time hitchhiking
now it was back to Sunday afternoon biking!
Header Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay
It was a wonderful time. You don’t have to go on that journey now. But at least there is something to remember.
Great poem, May, and I can see why you had fun writing it 🙂
~ Marie xox
Fun and fact filled May – you can turn your hand to anything
nicely done