Musician Takes Trailer, Dachshund, Guitar on Wish Trip

Dutch musician, Tjerk Ridder’s tour of Europe will be completed on the generosity of others.
Musician Takes Trailer, Dachshund, Guitar on Wish Trip
2/12/2010
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2/12/2010
Dutch musician, Tjerk Ridder’s tour of Europe will be completed on the generosity of others.

Traveling by caravan trailer and the tow bars of helpful people, the musician is “hitchhiking” to the three 2010 European Cultural Capitals: the Ruhr-Area in Germany, Pécs in Hungary and Istanbul in Turkey, according to his Web site. Ridder left Utrecht, Holland, on Jan. 3 with his dachshund and guitar, working on his album that he hopes to perform at the World Expo in Shanghai later this year.

He sees the trip as a metaphor for showing that people need people and collects the aspirations of those who help him; sealing them in a tin with a date they should be realized by.

Ridder is currently in Hungary and on his way to Turkey.