How to disappear in Europe

And never return

A Lovely Planet guidebook

With this ‘Lovely Planet’ at hand you can get all the information you needed to disappear successfully: from a list of medical kits that you might need, to the guidelines of how to start your own country or to disappear from all governmental computer systems. At the same time we had to make sure not to give too much specific information. The moment a quiet fishing village becomes a destination in the original Lonely Planet, it’s not a quite fishing village any more but a noisy market. The moment we give specific details of deserted places to hide it’s not a hiding place anymore. Therefore writing this ‘Lovely Planet’ became a tightrope dance of giving enough information and at the same time not undermining the information we are giving by making it public.

The ‘Lovely Planet’ gives you the possibility of becoming someone else, to start existing in a system you don’t belong to or to cease to exist in a former system. The ‘How to disappear in Europe’ guidebook offers the reader the freedom of this choice. It won’t be easy to live in solitude in an igloo or without a name and health insurance, but going outside of the social infrastructure could be seriously considered.

Travelling the identity change lane is not just a physical journey, but primarily a mental one. Trying to build a new life is not just about crossing a former national border, but about changing your way of life.