STARTING ANNOUNCEMENT
1. BASIC INFORMATIONS:
Name of event: 11th International Hitch-hiking Competition
Sopot-Munich 2008
Official languages: Polish and English

2. TIME AND PLACE OF COMPETITION:
Competition will be held between 1st and 4th May from Gdansk to Munich (Germany).

3. TARGETS OF COMPETITION:
· to break a new international hitchhiking leader,
· to popularize hitchhiking as a perfect way of unconventional recreation,
· to exchange experiences between followers of hitchhiking,
· to show participants of competition beauty of Poland, Germany and other
countries.

4. ORGANIZER:
Polski Klub Przygody (Polish Adventure Club)
80-526 Gdansk, ul. Gwiazdowskiego 20
tel. +48 58 556-77-52, fax +48 58 557-76-70
e-mail: info@klubprzygody.pl, www.klubprzygody.pl

5. CO-ORGANIZERS:
Europejska Szko?a Hotelarstwa, Turystyki i Przedsiebiorczosci
– Szko?a Wy>sza w Sopocie
(European School of Hotel Industry, Tourism and Enterprise – High School in Sopot)
e-mail: info@euro.edu.pl, www.euro.edu.pl
Studenckie Ko?o Naukowe Geografów Uniwersytetu Gdanskiego
(Students Geographic Science Associate)
e-mail: skng-ug@o2.pl, http://skng.geografia.ug.gda.pl.

6. ORGANIZERS STAFF:
Micha? Witkiewicz – managing director: tel. mob.+48 604 139-931,
e-mail: witkiewicz@klubprzygody.pl,
Krzysztof Kucharski – second-in-command: tel. mob.+48 504 372-552,
e-mail: kucharski@klubprzygody.pl
Iwona Roskosz – secretary and treasurer: tel. mob.+48 504 705-199,
e-mail: iwona.roskosz@gmail.com
Janusz Czerwinski – works manager: tel. mob. +48 604 178-176
e-mail: czerwinski@klubprzygody.pl
Cezary Wars – works manager: tel. mob. +48 602 336-070
e-mail: cezary.wars@yahoo.pl
Micha? Kwapisiewicz – works manager: tel. mob. +48 504 945-660
e-mail: klapencjo@gmail.com
Sebastian Ma?yszczyk – works manager: tel. mob. +48 663 305-047
e-mail: semalyszczyk@wp.pl

7. PRINCIPLE OF RECRUITMENT:
Two person teams can take part in the competitions. Competitors must be adult.
All competitors should have clothes and equipment for different weather conditions like: tent, sleeping mat, sleeping bag, good humour, patience and persistence
in action.

8. STARTING POINT IN POLAND (Sopot):
European School of Hotel Industry, Tourism and Enterprise – High School in Sopot Sopot, 25th Zamkowa Góra st. (ul. Zamkowa Góra 25)
(400 m from Sopot-Kamienny Potok station, 2 km from central railway station
in Sopot).

9. FINISHING POINT IN GERMANY (Munich):
Information about finishing point will be give on start of competition at 1st May 12:00 AM.

10. PARTICIPATION PAYMENT:
10 PLN per person will be taken by organizers on the first day of the competition at the start point.

11. ITINERARY OF COMPETITIONS:
1st May 2008 (Thursday)
- from 7.00 AM – greeting competitors at the starting point in Sopot,
- 7.00 - 11.30 AM – secretary’s office opening hours,
- 11.30 AM – press conference,
- 12.00 AM – start of competitions;
- from 8.00 PM – Munich secretary’s office opening hours;
4th May 2008 (Sunday)
- 9.00 AM – closing ceremony of competitions at finish point in Munich,
- to 11.00 AM – check out.

12. GET CHECK IN:
We admit the application form till 27th April 2008 only by e-mail:
autostop@klubprzygody.pl

13. PRIZES:
· teem which will reach the destination as first will get a souvenir cup, certificates and special prize,
· prizewinner 2nd and 3rd places will get souvenir certificates and prizes,
· all competitors will get souvenir certificates.

14. STARTING SERVICES:
· accommodation at a camping site on destination point in Munich will be provided after a surcharge (required tent, sleeping mat and sleeping bag),
· maps and participation materials,
· toilets at starting and destination point ,
· others materials connected with cash flow.

15. FINAL RULES:
· competitions will be held regardless of weather,
· competitors must have personal insurance,
· participants claim their own responsibility,
· application after time does not guarantee full services,
· persons taking part in the competition agree to disclose personal details in mass media informing about this event,
· organizers allow to move by public transport within a radius of 10 kilometers
from the cities over 100 thousand inhabitants,
· organizers are not responsible for damage caused towards competitors and third parties,
· organizers claim responsibility for final interpretation of the starting
announcement.

16. CONTACT:
www.forum.klubprzygody.pl
Secretary of Polish Adventure Club: tel. +48 58 556-77-52,
e-mail: ;
See You in Sopot !!!