# points

country: GB
comment:
  It is best to not go too near the motorway roundabout as the road becomes more narrowed with the impossibility for a car to stop, a ride to Exeter should be easily caught


country: GB
comment:
  To Dartmoor National Park: It is best to stay in this very spot as the road becomes a country one lane road


country: GB
comment:
  There is possibility for a car to stop but this spot would be only good for reaching Dorchester; the traffic is dense and Yeovil is not the place to be


country: GB
comment:
  There is a bus stop so a car can pull aside and take you down to Weymouth, enjoy the landscape in the meantime


country: DE
comment:
  Very great place, when you want to go onto the motorway in any direction. Almost any car leaving the city will pass by.


country: NL
comment:
  For direction Ozz, Nijmegen, Arnhem: From the big market in the city center, walk down the Hinthamerstraat (where the big cathedral is) to its end. You'll be standing in front of a bridge. Go right into the Zuid Willemsvaart street and follow it till the crossing, and go straight forward along the Van Veldekekade. After 500 meter you'll be under a bridge. Walk the path up there and you'll find a big biking path. Just stand on that and pull out your thumb. You can also try to go over the bridge and go down the street directly direction Nijmegen.


country: GB
comment:
  This spot is a last resort to go direction Poole - Southampton, you have to stand behind the fence and hope that the traffic get so dense that the cars can not speed


country: GB
comment:
  There is some gas station and supermarket, this would be the only good spot to hitch in whatever direction it is more safe to do it before the roundabout


country: GB
comment:
  Fleet Services (Direction London and
  North): This is your last spot before
  the M25, it is the best spot to be
  before the M25


country: NL
comment:
  Utrecht, Almere, Lelystad, (Amsterdam), (â€™s-Hertogenbosch), (Breda). A27 access lane 33. Train station â€œHilversum Sportparkâ€, 750 m SE. Hard shoulder on sliproad


country: FR
comment:
  I waited fairly long and finally got a ride to the next peage on the A42. But there I waited an hour or so. Only local cars. So I tramped back to town and took the A6.

  One should definetely take the A6 when heading north.


country: RS
comment:
  Crossroads with road from center of Novi Sad to highway - there are lights, so hitchhike just behind them. Road to Beograd, Nis, Bulgaria, Macedonia...


country: DE
comment:
  much traffic at friday afternoon, it tooks me only 5mintes waiting time here to get a lift to Frankfurt


country: DE
comment:
  There's a Aral-Petrol Station. Ask the drivers. The second one I asked gave me a lift to Kiel. Found the spot on hitchbase.com


country: DE
comment:
  Tecklenburger Land Ost: Motorway fillingstation / restaurant. Access on foot via DunkbachstraÃŸe, 49545 Tecklenburg. Direction OsnabrÃ¼ck


country: DE
comment:
  Tecklenburger Land West: Motorway fillingstation / restaurant. Access on foot via GrafenstraÃŸe, 49545 Tecklenburg. Direction Dortmund


country: CR
comment:
  Heading downtown until a redlight. To your right is a TEXACO gas station. There cars running to the south of the carribean coast.

  Red Light District - watch out!


country: BG
comment:
  After the bridge is a bus stop - the only place you can hichhike. Take bus 13 to the Train station after the bridge get out , next stop on this bus is Train station (or you can walk from downtown is near 15-20m)


country: BG
comment:
  West towards- Sofia . Take trolleybus n2 to the City Mall (E772) after that you must walk about 10m forward to the next way who joint to this.(Look on the map)


country: DE
comment:
  Very nice spot general direction south. It's a bit more difficult for straight direction west if you want to enter the Netherlands from the far north to Groningen.
  Reasons: IKEA is just behind the spot and hence there are many people from all over the place to buy some furniture. This can also cause problems, when they are totally loaded.
  How to get there:
  Take either tram line no. 4 or 5 to station 'Huckelriede' then switch over into bus line no. 53 until the end (IKEA) or station 'Carl-Zeiss-Str.'
  (one earlier). Be aware that you leave the city boarders, when using Bus 53. You'll need an area-extension if you don't want to dodge the fare.
  Good ride and quick hitch,
  polarfox (www.BeWelcome.org)


country: DE
comment:
  Service station on German side.You can get lifts up north to Karlsruhe or further. Much trucks from South stop here to sleep overnight to go further north.


country: GB
comment:
  Probably a good spot still to hitch in all direction (North - West) from London but it is more harsh to continue towards the South-East from there.


country: NO
comment:
  There is a traffic light and bus stop, with plenty of traffic going south and towards Stockholm. A sign helps.


country: NO
comment:
  First on ramp after tunnel. Not a lot of traffic, but easy to place yourself and plenty of room to stop. Easy to get to Vestby gas stations.


country: NO
comment:
  Popular gas station for cars and trucks going to Sweden. Ask around and in a few minutes you'll be on your way.


country: SE
comment:
  Got dropped off here. A lot of traffic, but nobody going north toward Helsingborg or Gotenborg. Avoid it if possible in favor of service station a few kms north on E6.


country: GB
comment:
  Direction: M5 south (Bristol). Here you get both trafic from the gas station and the road. Plenty of space to stop. A gold spot.


country: DE
comment:
  For A1 East (Hamburg). Just outside the McDonalds. The road is quite fast but there is a huge space on the side to stop and people see you from some distance.


country: CH
comment:
  An average place to hitchhike in direction of Geneva. There is a bus stop before the on ramp (Bourdonette, also a metro stop!) and in the morning it is quite easy to get picked up.


country: CH
comment:
  Good for going to Bern/German-speaking Switzerland or Yverdon/Neuchatel. Crosswalk makes traffic slow down and plenty of space to slow down. Bus stop Blecherette.


country: NL
comment:
  Street going on to the highway, forget it! no space to stop, cars see you badly. better try to walk up the bridge and stand directly along the Westerval, if you got lost here.


country: NL
comment:
  Good if you're coming from the University! Go with the bus line 1 to Jupiterstraat, walk 10m to the traffic circle, walk left and there you see an emergency rest stop.Nearly everyone is going to the A35!


country: BE
comment:
  This is what I would call the offical hh spot of Gent to go to Brussels, Kortrijk, Lille or further in that directions. Im posting this in November 2007


country: IT
comment:
  you can reach this gas station from florence center by taking bus for the aeroporto. from here, you can take any ride that is entering the autostrada, and if they are not going your direction they can leave you at the first service area on the autostrada, from which it is probably more convenient to hitch.


country: GB
datetime: 2007-06-15 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  In theory these bus stops near the M1 make fantastic spots, long straight roads with heavy traffic slowing for roundabouts... But I had no luck in over two hours. 


country: GB
comment:
  I didn't get a lift here, but the passing Buddhist monks who live at the temple just through the trees told me they like to pick people up here when they can! Maybe even try your luck in the car park?


country: FR
comment:
  for normandie (rouen)
  take rer(train) to poissy,then bus #20 to stop "auberge" 3m further turn right to cross over the highway and reach the station :)  nusti


country: FR
comment:
  for caen or further
  possible to take a bus #31 to la bouille and then walk(take care u'll have to climb a little), make stop on national road to reach the spot...  nusti


country: BE
comment:
  Best spot to hitch towards Eindhoven, or Hasselt/Liege. Much space to stop on the bridge. A tramstop is only 200 meter away.


country: DE
comment:
  Decent Rasthof to continue further to the west (Belgium - Aachen - NL), You can even access it from Cologne by taking a train to Konigsdorf and walk from the station to the Services (Augustinus Str and Marienhofer Weg)


country: DE
comment:
  no car can stop here...its a bypass road and there is almost no space for you to place yourself. also the cars are coming with over 100km/h and the road is curved...so they cannot see you. better go to fÃ¼rstenwalde west and try your luck there! 


country: GB
comment:
  You can access the Channel Tunnel entrance from Ashford road (A20) slip-road, and hitch from there before the viaduc trying to catch the traffic from the highway as cars can safely pull over around or after the viaduc, the toll booths are still 800 yards away and there is no cctv to be used as deterrents.


country: CA
comment:
  One of the Best Services to catch a ride, high frequentation with possibilities to go every direction: http://en.hitchwiki.org/?title=Point-du-Jour_Services


country: CA
comment:
  This junction has the worst reputation to be dropped off it is better to do the Sault Ste.Marie - Thunder Bay ride in one shot... many people get stucks for days here.


country: DE
comment:
  From Bochum central station, take the U35 towards Rensingstrasse. Get out there and walk up to the ramp.


country: ES
comment:
  from burgos take a bus at the bus-station to quintanapalla and then walk on the little road that goes back to the gas-station  :)


country: NO
comment:
  There is no use to go anywhere else than there to get out of Mageroya leaving Honningsvag, (catching traffic out of Nordkapp and Honningsvag). Make sure to catch a ride out of the Island or  possibly until the E6 Junction. Waiting can be long! (Remember, Mageroya Tunnel is toll/person).


country: NO
comment:
  To Nordkapp, you just need to wait in this general area... one tourist might take you at some point.
  (PS: The E69 doesn't have a shoulder to walk further North after the Airfield).


country: DK
comment:
  This is the place to reach to go in direction of Esbjerg, Kolding Junction is quite a trap so you have to be careful to not get stuck.


country: FR
comment:
  Even if hitching work in direction North, it takes way too long with only short ride, and the Highway access in Gien isn't the best place to catch a ride further North. It's better to try reaching the highway from Bourges through another road.


country: FR
comment:
  To Bourges, from the motorway. Note that a driver can regain the motorway before the toll making it more easy for them to drop you off at the Bourges Exit


country: GB
comment:
  Got a lift from here to Stirling in 20 minutes. Cars have to drive slowly here so its okay for stopping.


country: GB
comment:
  Somewhere her is supposed to be a Garage. Got from here a lift to Manchester in 45 minutes of waiting. A sign is useful.


country: BE
comment:
  You can hitch a ride East - West with a sign along the E40, you can also simply walk all the way down to the E40 and hitch from the On-Ramp.


country: BE
comment:
  Direction Brussels: Possibility to hitch before or on the On-Ramp. (Note that from October 2007 Onwards the direction East On-Ramp is closed for construction purposes until further notice)


country: BE
comment:
  Direction Gent, tram 82 on Chaussee de Gand. Dense traffic but a wide area on the bridge for a car to stop.


country: DE
comment:
  Just behind the traffic light you can stand for hitching towards Oldenzaal or Gildehaus. Not much traffic, but cars can stop along the road. Average spot.


country: DE
comment:
  Nearly no traffic, you need to have luck to hitch here. Well space for cars to stop, but not for trucks. Better try the ramp or go back. Empty area!


country: NL
comment:
  Service station. Some trucks filling up here, further nearly nothing except German tourists buying Coffee. Forget it! Also don't even think to try out the ramp!


country: DE
comment:
  This spot is somewhat better, more traffic going eastwards to Rheine or IbbenbÃ¼ren. Hitched this direction 2 times, both waiting time around 5 minutes


country: DE
comment:
  End of town, stupid corner behind you so make yourself visible. Much traffic towards Bentheim, but a bit difficult for cars to stop.


country: ES
datetime: 2007-10-01 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Big service area and gas stations. East side of the road is towards Lleida and Zaragoza, west side towards Valencia.

  To get here, you can take a train from Barcelona (Sants station, or so) towards Matorell.

  Get off at Castellbisbal. Go behind the small station, walk over the short bridge (or was it just a raised road), and then immediately turn right and follow the dirt track back in the direction you came with the train. You will come to the service area.


country: NL
comment:
  Utrecht, Den
  Haag. A12 access lane 26
  near junction
  Knooppunt Waterberg. Bus 91/231s stop â€œGolflinksâ€, 200
  m N Apeldoornseweg (cross). Traffic lights. Next great petrol station 3 km.


country: SE
datetime: 2007-11-29 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Stigs Center -- big service station where international truck drivers stop and rest. Going north and south on E6. Should be possible to talk somebody into taking you.

  It has a long history, but it doesn't look like this anymore: http://www.stigscenter.se/img/historia/tappen62.jpg  .

  Get here by taking bus 47 from Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen towards Tuve.

  Hjalmar Brantingsplatsen (on Hisingen Island, just across the bridge (Götaälvbron) from the central train station) is reached by tram 5, 6 or 10.


country: SE
comment:
  This is one spot for going south on E6/E20. Perhaps a bit too close to the center -- many cars are probably not leaving the city. Though a friend got a ride straight to MalmÃ¶. There are indeed red lights, so you can get contact with people.

  You can get here by taking a tram to stop called Stampen, and walking Gullbergsvassgatan.


country: PL
datetime: 2007-07-01 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Road 7 towards Kielce and Kraków.

  There is a free bus going to Janki Center, the big mall just north of here. It leaves from Aleje Jerozolimskie in the city center (see bus point there).


country: PL
comment:
  Road 8 towards CzÄ™stochowa and Katowice.

  There are certainly a good spots here as well, but I did not try it.


country: PL
datetime: 2007-07-01 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  This is a bus stop on Zakopiańska, which leads onto road 7/E77, south.

  To get here, take tram 8 or 19 (I think) to Borek Fałęcki, the final stop, which is about a one km north of this point.

  This seems like a good spot, but I did have to wait for quite a while.

  You could also try walking south to the other spot which is right on 7/E77.


country: DE
comment:
  Direction: East

  Many cars only come for fueling to this gas station and then go back to Salzwedel. It should be easy to find somebody to bring you there but I don't know how many of them can bring you to the other side of the city to go on hitchhiking.


country: DE
datetime: 2007-11-01 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Direction: West. 

  This gas station is mostly frequented by people coming from Salzwedel going to... Salzwedel. But there are also some going the direction of Uelzen and maybe after one hour or longer there will be somebody taking you there. 

  I recommend asking people while fueling and standing next to the road the rest of the time.


country: NL
datetime: 2007-11-28 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Very good petrol station (Total) to get out of Delft on to the A13 (especially direction Rotterdam during rush hour). You can get there by walking from the traffic lights from the Voorhofdreef/Kruithuisweg, but be sure to walk past the road (max 100m), because at next to the station there is water and a big barrier.


country: NL
datetime: 2007-11-28 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  A busy road, so good for hitchhiking, but most of the traffic will go to Rotterdam and not further so the traffic that is able to give you a hike to for example Dordrecht is sparse.
  Also last time I was kicked away by the petrol station owner for asking the tanking people (even though I always smile, wish people a good journey and are dressed pretty neat) but a sign at the parking lot behind the station also worked out OK :)


country: BE
datetime: 2007-11-28 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  A not so busy petrol station, but here is already some traffic heading for UK and France. I got a ride here without much trouble, Flemish are good eggs :)


country: GB
datetime: 2007-11-28 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Very big service station, lots of cars, all heading for London. Also a bridge over the road, so you can switch lanes here (as I did, I arrived from the South with a lift which took me around London and took a lift back into the Northern part of London)


country: NL
datetime: 2007-11-28 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  This petrol station is not very large, but all traffic here is going south and a lot of them head for Belgium, so you will easily get a hike to Antwerp.


country: DE
comment:
  The Autohof here is the worst place ever to get out of. Located off the Autobahn, lots of local traffic or traffic just going into Stuttgart


country: LV
comment:
  Cars to Saldus, Riga, Aizpute, Kuldiga. There is a bus stop nearby and a place for drivers to stop. You can get here from Liepaja by taking a bus Nr. 912 from the centre of the city (near hotel "Liva").


country: LV
comment:
  To Pavilosta, Jurkalne  and Ventspils. The road is not overloaded with cars, but here you can have a better chanse to get a lift, than in Grobina.


country: LV
comment:
  Cars to Aizpute and Kuldiga. Hitchhike on the bus stop. Speed of  cars if low after a turn, so more time to react on you for the driver.:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Saldus and Riga. There is a bus stop (usualy empty), but speed of cars is very offen too high to stop immediatly. So be ready to run a bit after the car stops. :)


country: LV
comment:
  To Liepaja. It looks like a bad hhiking place, but cars stop here.(from personal experience). Just stay near the sign "Aizpute is over"


country: LV
comment:
  To Aizpute, Liepaja. Direct cars, slow speed, place to stop - what else do you need for succesfull hhiking?!


country: LV
comment:
  To Sabile, Tukums, Jurmala and Riga. Even  if the speed of cars seems to be very high - you are visible here from a distance and drivers stop their car.:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Saldus, Sabile, Tukums, Jurmala, Riga.  Its better to write down a destination of your trip, because many cars is turning for Saldus after a bridge (in 500 m). If you not going there, better walk a bit to another hhiking place.


country: LV
comment:
  To Sabile, Talsi, Tukums, Riga. Just wait here for the car you need. Do not walk for a better position, because you will walk around 10-12 km


country: LV
comment:
  To Sabile, Kandava, Tukums, Riga. Not the best spot to hhike, but there is nothing better in 10 km radius.


country: LV
comment:
  To Kuldiga. In the end of Sabile, you will find a place where its possible to stop a car for driver. Just hhike there.:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Kandava, Tukums, Riga. In the end of Sabile, befor the sign. enough place to stop a car. Do not go futher, there is only hills and quite dangerous road.


country: LV
comment:
  Quite bad hhing place. Its a gas station near by, but there only local cars are stopping (normaly). If you are here - try to change a position, using those car even for couple km. But better to avoid this place


country: LV
comment:
  Many local cars witch goes to Saldus (6 km), but if you will write down "Liepaja" on your board - direct car defenetly stops.. but when? :)


country: LV
comment:
  Ther is a bus stop and a place to stop a car, but speed is very fast. You must be very active to stop a car here :)


country: LV
comment:
  in the daytime its better to stay here, but in the night better to hhike before a bridge (because of streetlights)


country: LV
comment:
  A perfect place to hhike to Liepaja from. :) its like from the books about best practice hhiking. :)


country: LV
comment:
  A lot of cars direction to Kaunas, Poland, West and south Europe. NOt more than 15 min waiting for a lift usualy


country: LV
comment:
  To avoid going in to Riga - you can try to hhike from here in direction to Tallinn or Russia. A lot of tranzit trucks is going by this way.


country: LV
comment:
  dirction : ti Riga. It looks like nobody will stops here - but usualy you don't stand here more than 10-15 min. If in this time nobody stops - just walk around 2 km and you will see a railway crossroad - try there.:)


country: LV
comment:
  Good place to hhike after you eat something in the cafe nearby.:) Speed of cars is slow, a lot of place to stop a car and also a parking place near cafe where you can find a lift directly to Liepaja


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. If you didn't manadge to find a lift on gas station - here you can stay and cover also a traffic both from Liepaja and Saldus in direction Riga


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. A lot of cars, a lot of local cars also. It looks like ther is no place to stop, but drivers do it:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. A lot of trafic here. Stay on the bus stop and you will defenatly get a lift directly to Riga.


country: LV
comment:
  To Kuldiga, Talsi, Ventspils. Not very good place to hhike, but its possible here. next better hhiking spot in 6 km.


country: LV
comment:
  To Tukums, Talsi, Kuldiga, Ventspils. A lot of cars going this directions and very often direct ones.


country: LV
comment:
  To Ventspils, Talsi, Tukums, Kuldiga. Wait for direct car here. Its beeter to mis some short-distance cars and then get one car till the goal of your trip


country: LV
comment:
  To Ventspils, Talsi, Tukums, Kuldiga. If the previous pint is heavyly ocupied by hhikers - try to hhike here. Sometimes its even faster to get a ride from here


country: LV
comment:
  From Riga to Saldus, Skrunda, Liepaja.
  Till this point u can get by minibus
  (from Riga's centre) which goes to PINKI
  or SKULTE. Write down LIEPAJA and u
  won't stay longer than half an hour. (forget to login for the previous spot)


country: LV
comment:
  To Saldus, Skrunda, Liepaja. Direct way
  to the western seaside of Latvia. Good
  trafic, direct and fast cars. (Forgot to login for this spot)


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. You can stay at the bus stop, but be ready a bit for a lift - the speed of car is quite big to stop.


country: LV
comment:
  To Jelgava. You will not stay longer then 15 min here - a lot of cars mostly to Jelgava, but sometimes also to Dobele


country: PL
comment:
  Distanation - Bialostok (PL), Awgustow (PL), Kaunas (LT), Riga (LV), Tallin (EST), S.Petersburg (RU). A lot of truck drivers choose this way to avoid Warsaw. And here its a enough place to stop a car for driver, also because speed is very low after a turn.


country: PL
comment:
  Very good place to get a truck directly to Germany (Berlin) or Poznan. There is a truck parcking here and gas station. It better to stay with a sign  after gas station. You can get here by train from Warsaw or by hhing :)


country: PL
comment:
  It's almoust dead point for hhing - no chance for a truck to stop, only small car can do this. And you also cannot leave this point by foot, because for 10-12 kilometers its very narrow and fast speed road with no place for drivers to stop, even if they wanted to do it. Try to avoid to stop here and if the car goes to Scczuczin, try to get out somewhere before it in a better spot.


country: LT
datetime: 2007-12-12 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  It looks like a good spot for hhing, but on Sundays and afternoons (from 12:00 till 14:00) it is dead end.   A lot of trucks just cross boarder and make pauza in a cafe 6 km away from this point


country: PL
comment:
  There is a bus stop and a lot of local cars. You can try to start here to hhike to Germany, but you will save a time if you just use a bus to get out of the city.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction - Germany. Very fast speed and almost no chanse to get a car. If you are here - change position. You can walk or you can take a bus 01 or 02 for some bus stops.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction - Germany. If you are lucky and visible enough - here you can try to hhike. A lot of local cars which could bring you further a bit to a better position.(for example to Pniewy - 25 km)


country: PL
comment:
  Direction - Germany and West - South Europe. There is a round crossroad and all cars from Warsaw and Poznan meets here to continue there ride to the west. Speed is low, and no locals almost.


country: PL
comment:
  To Germany, to Berlin.  If I remember well, in Boczow there is a huge parking place for trucks, which are going to whole Europe. Try to ask for a lift there. If you need just to go to Berlin, stay on the road and hhike all cars in this direction. Car will appears very fast..:)


country: LT
datetime: 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Good p1ace to stop a car directly to Poland or Germany. All trafic from Tallinn, Riga and Klaipeda goes here


country: LV
comment:
  To hhike before the boarder of Skrunda - speed is not so high and you are visible from a long distance


country: LT
comment:
  To Kaunas, Poland, West Europe. You can stay infront of gas station - there is place to stop for a car. The problem is - many local cars which go to Panevezys. But If your car is going there, its better to jump here and to take ring road.


country: LT
comment:
  To Kaunas, Germany. Even that cars are going too fast here - you are visible from distance, so drivers slow down a bit and see that there is enough space to stop their car and take you


country: LV
comment:
  To Zalenieki, Tervete.  You can start to hhike here. Many local cars, so write down your destination goal.


country: LT
comment:
  To Liepaja. You can wait for the car here or can have a walk a bit - doesn't metter. You will not stay longer here then 20 min:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga, Talsi, Tukums. It looks like a perfect place for hhiking, but people from Ventspils are not very hitchhikers-friendly.  You must be very activ to bring an attention to your person:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Valmiera, Tartu (EST). Its quite dangerous to stop a car here, but a lot of drivers do it. If you are against dangerous hhiking - walk 3km to a next spot.


country: LV
comment:
  To Valmiera, Tartu (EST). Somewhere here you can try to hhike mo saftly. There are some hills, so try to hhike on the top of a hill. Speed is 70 km/h for the cars.


country: LV
comment:
  To Valmiera, Tartu (EST). Ther is a bus stop, so hhike here. You are visible from a distance and there is a place for stop a car


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. Usually I'm hhiking here, when I'm returning from Estonia. But mayby its not the best point to start to hhike from Valmiera. Time of waiting is not more then 25 min.


country: LV
comment:
  To Tartu. If you want to avoid to enter the city, you can try to hhike on a ring road. Direct cars to Tartu or Valka usually choose this way, but they are not a majority of traffic. The time that you will spend hhiking on a ring road is more or less like a time that you will walk through the city.


country: FR
datetime: 2007-09-15 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  This point is a good point to make hitch hicking to Barcelona, or to Nimes, Montpellier, because a lot of people are going here on the Highway to the cost, but you need a plate with your aim.


country: MA
datetime: 2007-09-09 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  there must be a petrol station next to the highway, you can walk next to these highway, and I standed next to these petrol station with a plate, to Marakesh. 


country: MA
datetime: 2007-09-12 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  you walk out of the city, then you find a petrol station, you can speak with the drivers their, but they want normaly money, dont pay more then 100 diram to Fes. Otherwise take a plate like me, with FES on it, I dont need more then 20 min.


country: MA
datetime: 2007-09-17 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Just walk next to the street with a plage with your destination on it, there will be a lot of people who wants to pick you up!
  a little advise from me: use the plage also before on your way to this point next to the street, maybe you dont need so much time then.


country: MR
datetime: 2007-09-05 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  ask the drivers for Dakhla or Nouakshoot, they will help you mostly, but dont pay more then 200 dirams to Dakhla or 60 dirams to Nouakshoot.
  Dont drive with the people from Marocco group, they are really criminals, they want more for the way back as for the way to Nouakshoot.look for european plates.


country: DE
comment:
  my personally best hitch hicking point of the world to Hamburg.
  you can ask the people their for a lift to hamburg at the petrol station.


country: FR
comment:
  Locals told me that most people going to Paris pass by there. I waited 30 min and a car stopped to take me there. Okay place for the cars to stop.


country: LV
datetime: 2007-12-18 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  To Daugavpils, Rezekne, Russia. 2 years ago it was a very good place for hhiking, but now, due to reconstructions, it could change a bit


country: LV
comment:
  To ringroad, to E67, To Tallinn, to Lithuania. A lot of local cars goes from here till the ring road. There you can choose your direction. Somtimes this spot is more usefull then Jugla's spot.


country: LV
comment:
  To Tallinn. A lot of cars all day long (and night also), most of them are direct cars to Estonia or Finland


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. If you want to go to Riga and your car is going to Estonia (for exmple), you can jump out here and easely hitchhike a new direct one.:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Rezekne,to Russia. A lot of cars, but not a lot of place to stop. If nobody stops in 20 min, change position. In 4-5 km ther is a railway crossroad - try there..:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Balvi, Gulbene. The road is not overloaded with trafic, but when some cars appears they usually take you. Be patient.


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. Not the best position, but I've  never stayed longer then 20 min here. If you are standing more, so change your position - in about 2 km theris a big junction - try there. 


country: LV
comment:
  To Riga. In the mornings there are a lot of cars going direction to Riga. Write down on a Plate and you will not stay here more then 20 min.


country: LV
comment:
  To Daugavpils. As I remember, I've never wait here longer then half hour. Usualy it was direct cars to Daugavpils


country: LV
comment:
  To Valmiera, Riga. In the night its better to stay her, but during the day you can also try to change position, if you are waiting for a lift for 30 min.


country: FR
comment:
  i waited very long with a sign to freiburg. nobody will take you but there is almost traffic. with asking directly it was no real problem. but also at least 20min. i guess nobody wants to take you over the border


country: DE
comment:
  much traffic! slow cars. no problem to get away to france, luxembourg or germany. there is a turkish restaurant with a parking in direction north and a small snack stand with place for cars to stop on the other direction of the road. i wated about 5 min.


country: EE
comment:
  For going to Rakvere, Narva, St. Petersburg (Russia).
  Bus #54 takes you there from Bus Station. Or from centre trams #2 and #4 take you ~750m before the point.


country: GB
comment:
  Advantages: picks up a lot of southbound traffic (including freight) from North Chesterfield and South Sheffield.
  Disadvantages: gets very muddy in wet weather; drivers will only stop at a red light or when there is no heavy traffic.


country: PL
comment:
  To Warsczawa. There is a bus stop. but usualy full of people, so write down on a plate your destination point. If you are not lucky here try to change your position - in 3 km after a river there is one spot - not the best one..


country: PL
comment:
  To Warsczawa. There is a trafic light before junction, so speed of the car is not too high, but people very rearly stops here. And of course you need a plate with destination place.


country: PL
comment:
  To Slawa. A lot of privat houses around and no place to stop for drivers. Try to change position if you didn't get a ride in 15 min


country: PL
comment:
  to Wschowa, to Poznan.   Traffic is good enough for hhiking especialy in the mornings. Mostly local cars, but in summer time a lot of direct ones.


country: PL
datetime: 2007-06-19 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  to Warsczawa. It is an old road from Germany to Warszawa. A lot of cars but mostly locals. Due to the big road reconstrucions on it - it become very unpopular for long distance drivers... Write down a destination place on your plate. 


country: PL
comment:
  To Krakow. Stay on the top of the hill (in the night - under the street light) - so you will be visible from a distance and will not stay longer than 10 min, especialy if you put down on the plate your destination goal.


country: PL
comment:
  to Warszawa, to Radom.  Thre is a bus stop and a lot of place for stop the car. Speed of  cars is high, so be visible and write down your destination place:)


country: PL
comment:
  to Warszawa, to Lublin. A lot of cars, high speed, but there is enough place for breaking. Be visible!:)


country: PL
comment:
  To Zakopane, to Slovaki and to Czeh republik. After a trafic light there is a bus stop, so cars can stop. Do not write long distance cities on your plate - you will stuck here for hours. Just hitchhike, be active and you will get a car less then 20 min. :)


country: PL
comment:
  To Zilina, to Bratislava. A nice place where cars go with low speed and drivers have time to dicide. Waiting time: about 20 min in summer and 20 min in winter.:)


country: CZ
comment:
  To Brno. In the begining of 2007 road E462 was closed (or not finished), so all trafic to Brno went this way. How it is now - chek it:)


country: CZ
comment:
  You can try to hhike before the boarder, but drivers afraid to stop, because there are a lot of signes that do not alowd to stop and a lot of police and boarderguards who are not very friendly to hhikers. its forbiden to cross boarder by foot at this checkpoint. Don't know how it is now when Poland and Czeh are in Schengen..


country: PL
comment:
  To Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia. A lot of trucks in this direction - theris a place to stop for them. In the night is also good to hhike here because of a street lights. :)


country: CZ
comment:
  To Hradec Kralove, to Wroclaw. A lot of local cars -  you can stuck here for hour. But where is better place to this direction - I don't know. :(


country: CZ
comment:
  to Wroclaw. A low speed, good traffic, direct cars. there is not so much space to stop for a driver, but its possible to do it.


country: EE
comment:
  To Parnu, Tallinn. Standart spot for hhiking. Write down destination place on your hhiking plate and you will get a direct car:)


country: LV
comment:
  To Sigulda, Riga. A lot of cars, high speed, but you are visible from the distance and there is a place to stop.


country: LV
comment:
  To Vecpiebalga. You can ask people on a parking place near cafe, but they usualy have no place in the cars (family holidays). So just wait after parking and your car will appears.:)


country: NL
comment:
  I used this place twice going south. I had a sign for Rotterdam and got picked up within 5min. both of the times, but you could try further, especially during rush-hour. Alternatively you could ask the driver to drop you at the gasstation a few km down the highway, this'll save you the walk at least:)


country: GB
comment:
  The point is great for hitching towards Oxford/Birmingham (M40) or M25 - also, there is a hatched-marking section, where a car can stop to pick you up even when the traffic is heavy.
  Always stand with a sign stating your destination, as a lot of traffic goes round M25.

  Also, there is an OxfordTube bus stop nearby, so you can always take the bus if you are really stuck.


country: LV
comment:
  To Saulkrasti, To Parnu, to Tallinn. There is a bus stop and cafe nearby, but you need to wait a bit for a lift. Be patient


country: LV
comment:
  To Sigulda, Valmiera, Valka, Tartu. Not the best idea to hhike on the highway. Police will not arrive ;)just because you stay there, but due to the high speed its very dificult for cars to stop. Be visible and its better to have aplate with your distination goal.


country: LV
comment:
  to Dobele, to Tukums. Somewhere here there is a bus stop, so try to hhike htere. Write down your destination. You you don't have a lift in half an hour - change position. In 1,5 km there is a crossroad - try there:)


country: SK
comment:
  To Brno, to Praha. There are a lot of cars going to Praha early in the morning and they often stops at this gasstation, so you can ask them. But be carefull, because owner of the gas station is not very hhikers-friendly.


country: DE
comment:
  to Freyung, to Czeh republic (Praha). Just say before traficlight with writen destination place on your hhiker's plate. A lot of local cars, but people are friendly and will take you very fast from this point.


country: AT
comment:
  To Munich, to Salzburg. After a "Shell" gasstation there is a place for active hhiking on a highway. I usualy didn't wait here longer then 15 minutes and truck arrived:)


country: CH
comment:
  To Mullhouse, to Kolmar, to Strasbourg.  There is a parking lot imedeatly after a boarder - some cars stop there. Boarderguards are not very openminded - they say thats it is forbiden to hhike on the highway (even if it is a begining), but you can do it on a parking place..:) So write down on a big hhiker's plate your Destination goal and    wait on a parking slot, people will notice that you are hhiker and will stop after a while.:) Be polite with boarderguards!:) 


country: FR
comment:
  to Epinal, to Nancy. A  lot of local cars, so write down your destination place. Waiting time : around 30 min.


country: FR
comment:
  to Metz, To Brussels. You can stay before or after traficlights. Write down your destination place. Better to hhike in the mornings here.


country: DE
comment:
  A small petrol station in the western ring of the A10. Not so much traffic but at least no Problem if you get to the west or to the south. I waited 17 min for a lift to Hannover.


country: IT
comment:
  Enough space for cars to stop for you directly next to the road along the beach. Hitching easily towards Alghero.


country: DE
comment:
  stopping a car is no problem here to get to the direction polish border or berlin. most but probable you will only get short lifts on the b1.


country: ES
datetime: 2007-10-02 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  This spot is nice to reach Cordoba. Remember anyway that you are in Spain and it may take long. It is a bit dangerous to reach it by foot, but once you are there, there is enough space for the cars to stop. November 2007


country: ES
datetime: 2007-11-02 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Granada-Córdoba or a way to get to another petrol station in the highway. It is a petrol station. From here they mostly take the Highway to Madrid, even for sort distances. If you go east (Murcia, Valencia, Barcelona)or west you can get a ride here to any of the other three fuel stations that are located before the cross with the A-92 (which is the highway going to Murcia). In my opinion the bigest is the second one (GALP). However if you want to reach Córdoba, I encourage you to wait until somebody brings you directly there, otherwise the most probable is that you get stack in any village in between (it already hapened 2/3 to me). Be patient, you are in Spain. Good luck. November 2007


country: ES
datetime: 2008-01-15 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Córdoba-Granada. Get the bus number 6 from the center in direction to Barrio Guadalquivir and step out of the bus at the stop Carretera de Granada. Continue by foot for 100m. (Be aware that you are in the poorest suburb of Córdoba, show self-confidence). Then walk over the highway. There you can already show your cardboard. Continue straight for 300 m until the fuel station to your right. There you can start asking people. This national road involves a huge risk of getting stack in the middle at any of the crowded villages. Make sure that you get a direct ride to Granada, otherwise a very long one, or wait for the next. This road is mostly use by people of Baena, Alcalá, or other villages in the way to Granada. Good luck! January 2008


country: FR
datetime: 2008-01-15 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Here many cars get into the highway to Lyon-Paris. There is enough space for them to park with safety. Somebody may took you to the petrol station just before the peage, and once you are there, you will travel fast.


country: NL
comment:
  Highway towards Amsterdam, cars can easily stop. Take the bus to halte Zuiderval, about 100m to walk.


country: DE
comment:
  Good if wanting to go to Marburg. It's not a practicle place for cars to pull over, but many just stop directly on the road since there is not too much traffic. waiting time: 15 - 30 min. 


country: DE
comment:
  Perfect for going toward Hamburg, Dresden, or Berlin. If you are in Giessen, which is hard to get out of, try taking a bus to Reiskirchen, get out first stop, and track back the direction you came from until you get to the Autobahn ramp. 


country: DE
comment:
  Few traffic going up here, you might wait some time until cars going up on the highway. But nevertheless a nice countryside. Unprotected spot, can be very breezy.


country: DE
comment:
  Big bus bay with lots of space to stop for cars. They can see you easily and have to slow down to 70 km/h some meters before. Good for direction Dreierwalde, Hoerstel or Hopsten.


country: CZ
comment:
  Going towards Germany. Walk straight onto the emergency lane of the highway, about 30 meters from the on ramp. Probably forbidden (do not know) but good since the highway starts here and cars are not too fast ;)


country: GB
comment:
  A40 Eastbound truck stop.
  This is a fantastic place to get a lift to the South, as most M40-Southbound traffic from Oxford goes past this truck stop.


country: CZ
comment:
  There is old small chapell, you can hitch hike right next to it. Direction is GolÄÅ¯v JenÃ­kov, ÄŒÃ¡slav, KolÃ­n, Praha ...


country: DE
comment:
  If you wanna go North/South or you have to change your driver "KÃ¶schinger Forst" is an excellent place. It is situated about 10 km south from the motorway exit "Ingolstadt Nord"


country: DE
comment:
  If you have to change your driver because you want to hitchhike the A8 to Munich - (and your driver wants to Stuttgart-city or s.l.t.)this is a good place to change 


country: DE
comment:
  If you want to hitchhike from Nuremberg to Munich or elsewhere south and you donÂ´t know nobody with a car -  this is my hotspot. Just take the S-Bahn Nr. 3 to Feucht and then you can walk to this servicestation - directly on the motorway (germ. Autobahn)Just follow the Schwarzenbrucker StraÃŸe and turn left (uphill) after the first bridge but befor the next railroad bridge. 

  For me there is just one disatvantage if you are in a hurry - from the S-Bahn station Feucht to the servicestation youÂ´ll need around 45 min. 


country: DE
comment:
  Service station close to a Burger King. It is not directly on the expressway (germ. Autobahn A9) but very close to it. Advantage: You can take a bus from the city centre or take a walk to the service station.


country: DE
comment:
  Traffic is to fast to stop. most cars will not go to the highway but go straight ahead. i hh here twice. Once i get a lift after 40min. next time i waited over 100min and finally gave up!


country: DE
comment:
  Service station just before the gates of Hamburg, but a bit a dead spot. Waited quite long there and only got ride offers for Hamburg City. Hard to get a ride somewhere north of HH.


country: DE
comment:
  Service Station Brockenlande, much traffic towards Kiel, a bit less up to Denmark. But possible to get rides up to the border.


country: DK
comment:
  Got a ride here directly towards Germany within seconds. No idea how the traffic is on other days, but on a Friday morning it was quite busy.


country: DE
comment:
  not many traffic, must be a bit lucky. you can also ask the drivers at the petrol station and macdonalds on the other side of the road.


country: DE
comment:
  this pertrol station and restaurant is like all the bigger stations on the a7 really good to get away


country: DE
comment:
  there was much traffic on the road on tuesday evening but really nobody was willing to give me a lift


country: GB
comment:
  You can reach this roundabout form the St. Erth train or bus stations by a short walk. We got a lift to Plymouth in 20min time.


country: GB
datetime: 2007-02-22 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Excellent spot for going South on A34 - hatched markings for a car to stop safely; 50mph limit; a lot of traffic from A420 and Oxford (including Seacourt Park and Ride)


country: DE
comment:
  The perfect place to go to Hamburg and Kiel. For Berlin itÂ´s the best way to go from here via Hamburg as well and change at the circle Horner Kreisel.


country: DE
comment:
  For Berlin itÂ´s much better to start from Fackenburger Allee/LohmÃ¼hle and go via Hamburg!
  In St. Hubertus wait up to 2 hours.


country: LT
comment:
  HH spot to hh direction of Jonava, Ukmerge, Utena, Daugavpils. You can even get a lift to Moscow here, couse it's one o the way to go there.


country: LT
comment:
  Perfect and pretty popular HH place in Kaunas. Most of the traffic goes to Vilnius and you get a lift EASY. It's possible to get a ride to BY as well.


country: LT
comment:
  HH place to hh direction of Vilkija. It's a bus stop here and enough place for a car to stop but most traffic doesn't go long distances.


country: LT
comment:
  Getting a lift to Kaunas should be easy here, further - also possible Bus stop, enough place for a car to stop.


country: PL
datetime: 2008-02-29 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  To Piotrek Trybunalski, to Katowice, to Wroclaw. Not the best place to hhike (and I think it is even forbiden to walk or stay here), but I got a lift in 20 min here. A lot of trucks witch go  from north of Poland to south use this road (50) to avoid entering Warschawa.


country: PL
comment:
  To Warschawa. Enough place to stop for a car, street light is working in the night and a good nonstop trafic to the capital of Poland. :)


country: PL
datetime: 2008-02-29 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  To E67. Not the best place for hhiking, but cars stop here. After 500m there is a gas station, but it very dead place - local cars and sometimes trucks which are having 12 hours pauza exectly when you are asking for a lift... So it better to hhike here - you will save a time


country: PL
datetime: 2008-02-29 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  To Wroclaw. a lot of cars, mostly locals, but also a direct ones. Speed is quite fast, but you are visible from a distance and in the night there is a street lights working!:)


country: PL
comment:
  Very high speed of cars and no place to stop without making a dangerous situation on the road. Avoid to hhike here. But if you was unlucky and was droped off here, just go a bit futher and try to hhike on the hill. You must be very lucky to stop somebody there.


country: CH
comment:
  Gas station Pratteln

  Excellent place, a lot of cars towards germany. Possibility to cross the street to opposite direction.


country: CH
comment:
  Gas station WÃ¼relos

  I guess a great place towards Basel, if you're hitching with someone who is heading towards Bern it is propably better to get of here than in Gunzgen

  Possibility to cross the street to opposite direction.


country: CH
comment:
  Gas station WÃ¼relos

  Dir: ZÃ¼rich

  We found a ride to the city pretty fast here.

  Possibility to cross the street to opposite direction.


country: CH
comment:
  Gas station Gunzgen

  Most cars towards Bern, some towards Basel. WÃ¼renlos might be the better choice towards Basel, but anyways, it's well possible here to get a ride


country: CH
comment:
  Dir.: South

  Enough space for cars to stop and official road to Fribourg, but most people actually take the shortcut wich leaves some hundred meters earlier


country: CH
comment:
  Dir.: North

  Little room for cars to stop, not too much traffic, but propably best place in Fribourg anyways


country: DE
comment:
  Hitchhikers hell. I was dropped of here at night, no traffic at all, pitch dark, had to walk 30 minutes to the tram-station in rieselfeld. 


country: DE
comment:
  i spent half my life hitching here towards Dietlingen. I hitched rides at all daytimes. But it's rather for small distances or if you travel slow. 


country: LT
comment:
  HH place to hh to Vilnius mostly. Stand just after roundabout. Perfect place to hh any time. Cars go slowly, much traffic and most of it is going to Vilnius


country: LT
comment:
  Pretty good place to get a lift to Vilnius mostly. Cars stops before railway, you there's light. You can hh all the time there.


country: LT
comment:
  Looks like dead end but even here you have pretty good chances to hitch a ride to Marcinkonys or even to Druskininkai. The main problem here is lack of traffic.


country: LT
comment:
  Youc an stand here or continue walking.You won't have any hh problems here. Almost every car will take you to Varena. It's very common to hh here.


country: LT
comment:
  Strange but here you have pretty much traffic and cars stops easily. Though this place is not very common. Here you can hitch a ride to Kernave, but mostly to Northern Vilnius.


country: LT
comment:
  Pretty good HH place, but's it's a bit complicated to reach it. Look for public transport that goes to Zemieji paneriai.You can hh here or go after viaduc. It doesn't takes long to get a lift at least to Kaunas from here.


country: LT
comment:
  It used to be a good hh place, but now you have NO STOP sign, plus it's begining of a big hill, a lot of traffic nobody even could stop if they wanted. Don't stand here, walk up the hill with your thumb stucked out, somebody will pick you up, till the end  of the hill.


country: LT
comment:
  Not the best place for hh, couse it's not clear which way you want to go( dir. Trakai, or Druskininkai), but it doesn't take too long to get a lift at least till the place where the road splits.


country: LT
comment:
  Pretty good place for hh direction of Ukmerge, Utena ect. if you're droped off by driver who goes to Jonava.


country: LT
comment:
  Try avoid hh this place if you're heading to Ukmerge or Utena.It's lack of traffic and mostly locals are passing here.


country: LT
comment:
  Looks like it should be OK place hh from here to Moletai, but in most of the cases there's no traffic.


country: LT
comment:
  Not very comfortable place for hh, couse it's at the begining of the big hill. Cars can't stop easily. But still you have pretty good chances to get a lift to Jurbarkas, Silute, ect.


country: LT
comment:
  Somewhere arround here you have a bus stop and you're seen from long distance. It's a good hh spot if you're headint to direction of Jurbarkas, Silute, ect.


country: LT
comment:
  Most of the traffic here is coming from Russia. Getting a lift from here to Taurage, Kryzkalnis shouldn't be a problem.


country: LT
comment:
  Bad but possible place to get a lift to Rusne. But keep in mind that that area is flooded in spring:)


country: LT
comment:
  It's good place if you're heading direction of Daugai, Vilnius, ect. . Couse most of the cars are going there. To get to Druskininkai you need hh from the cross road ahead.


country: DE
comment:
  Dir: South (Basel) only!!!

  Gasstation Schauinsland

  OK traffic

  You can get here from Freiburg by taking Bus No. 36 towards Hochdorf, exit Bus station HÃ¶gestraÃŸe. Makes sense if you're trying to make a long distance. Otherwise you might just stay at KronenbrÃ¼cke, all together it will take the same amount of time.

  Coming from the north it works the same, if you want to get to freiburg let them drop you out here, try to find someone who is going directly to freiburg or take bus no. 36.


country: LT
comment:
  Pretty much traffic going from Druskininkai to Vilnius mostly. It won't take you long to catch a lift here.


country: LT
comment:
  This area is touristic. So despite low traffic you have real possibility to get a lift to Vilnius or Kaunas. Should't be hard to get a lift at least to Varena.


country: DE
comment:
  Ask people standing in Line for the traffic light to turn left. You'll find somebody to bring you to the highway-gasstations. 


country: DE
comment:
  At this place infront of Mc Shit people drop of their friends for the trainstation. ask them to give you a ride onto the highway


country: PL
comment:
  Not major border crossing. Not much traffic and local traffic mostly gooing to Sejny or area arround.


country: PL
comment:
  Pretty good place to hitch a ride to LT (Kaunas, Vilnius ect.) In the night it's more complicated couse you don't have light here. So you have to come closer the city, but there's no place for trucks to stop.


country: MA
comment:
  Emty road but first car will take you. No difficulties geting a lift to Laayoune or Dakhla. you have real possibilities to catch someone going  to Noukchott or further.


country: FI
comment:
  Most likely you'll get a ride to Karasjok, but it's also a possibility to hitch some tourists going to Nordkapp. Not busy place at all.


country: GB
comment:
  Not really the best place for cars to stop if you're hh there, but it's possible to hitch a ride to Aberdeen from here.


country: LT
comment:
  It's good place to hh to Klaipeda, there is a real possibility to catch a car going to Kaunas or Vilnius.


country: LT
comment:
  You have a bus stop somewhere here and a light. so it's possible to get a lift to Nida or even Kalliningrad anytime here.


country: LT
comment:
  Depending where you want to go you can have a lift to Juodkrante, Nida or even Kalliningrad. And that's very easy. You ask the car drivers on the ferry. Third driver you'll ask definatelly will take you.


country: LT
comment:
  It's not the best place if you want to hh of Klaipeda couse you miss a lot of traffic but it's one of the options if you don't want to walk till the next round about(Jaku).You can also try asking at the petrol station.


country: LT
comment:
  It's the best HH place in Klaipeda to hh direction of Kaunas, Vilnius,ect. But there are no lights, so keep that in mind choosing to hh in the dark time.


country: LT
comment:
  HH place to hh direction of Palanga, LV if you're coming from the east(Kaunas, Vilnius). It's not the best place couse you miss much traffic from Klaipeda, but it's possible to hitch a ride here.


country: LT
comment:
  Not really good place to hh direction of Kryzkalnis, Kaunas or Vilnius from here. Most of the traffic is passing you at the high speed.


country: LT
comment:
  Cars go fast, but they have enough place to stop and see you from far away. Locals wouldn't like to pick you up. It always takes a while to get out of here.


country: LT
comment:
  If you're heading to west and was dropped off here it's pretty good place to hh. Just  stand on the side of the road. Alternative: you can try your luck at the petrols station before this spot.


country: LT
comment:
  It's pretty good place to hh direction of Kaunas, Vilnius, ect. I suggest asking at the petrol station, couse it's always busy with cars going to Vilnius or Kaunas mostly. Alternative is hh on the ramp going out of the petrol station. Or, thirddly you can stand on the side of Motorway.It won't take you long to get out of here.


country: LT
comment:
  It's pretty complicated to reach this spot, but it's the best place if you're going to PL.You have to reach Garliava (a suburb of Kaunas). If you're coming from Direction of Vilnius, Klaipeda or  Panevezys, just get of close to big supermarket next to the Highway in the north of Kaunas. It's called MEGA. There you take a bus  nr. 6 that goes to Garliava. You have to get off at the end of Garliava and walk a bit in direction of Mariampole till E67. At this place you have a lot of place for a car to stop and a petrol station where you can always ask the drivers. I asure you that's this place is the best. I've tried it any time in day and night.


country: LT
comment:
  It's possiblle to hh here if you want to get direction of Kacergine, Sakiai, ect., but most of the traffic is going to Ringaudai village, so it's better to stand after Ringaudai. You can get here by bus nr. 18 and any microbus that goes to Ringaudai


country: LT
comment:
  That's better place to hh direction of Kacergine, Sakiai, ect. You have intersection so the cars slow down.You can get here by any microbus that goes to Ringaudai.Get off as soon as the microbus leaves the main road and turns to Ringaudai


country: LT
comment:
  HH place to hh direction of Vilkija, Jurbarkas, Silute or evn Klaipeda. You can get here with 7 and 11 Trolleybuses and any microbus that goes direction of Raudondvaris. Acctually Raudondvaris is better place to hh and you can get there by public transport


country: LT
comment:
  HH place to hh direction of Vilkija, Jurbarkas, Silute or even Klaipeda. It's pretty nice route along the river. Anyway it's pretty good place but quite much local traffic going to Kulautuva or Vilkija.You can get here by local, city transport: 48,49 bus and microbus going to Raudondvaris


country: DE
comment:
  When the boss of the gas station is trying to chase you away (happens sometimes), you can try to stand here with a sign. 

  The drak street is probably not owned by the gas station and the boss should have no right to make you go away.


country: GB
datetime: 2007-03-02 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  A nice long lay-by on the A34 Southbound - traffic can see you from a long distance and stop safely. 1/2-mile walk from the slip road.


country: DE
datetime: 2008-03-06 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Ugly environment and car drivers who don't like to stop for hitchikers. I've been told that whole Mühlacker is inhabited with people like that.


country: DE
comment:
  Somewhere around here must be a petrol station where you can ask for cars leaving Stuttgart. I have no experiences if that works well.

  To get here you can take the S-Bahn to SchwabstraÃŸe and walk up the RotebÃ¼hlstraÃŸe or take the bus.


country: LT
comment:
  To Klaipeda, Palanga, Liepaja (LV). There is more then enough place for driver to stop, but the problem is a very high speed of cars. Only solution   is to be very very active, so drivers could notice you. I  was waiting here for the lift in the night only 15 min.


country: LT
comment:
  Better then the best HH place in Klaipeda!:) Even that it is forbiden to stop a car here (due to the   rules), everybody does it. My average time of waiting for the direct lift to Vilnius or Kaunas here not more then 6 min, I think.


country: PL
comment:
  To Wyszkow, Lomza, Bialystok, to LT, LV, EST, RU. You can get here using a bus Nr.718 (very good description on hitchwiki). Bus stop STRUGA. A lot of cars, but almoust no trucks, because for them tranzit through Warsawa is not existing anymore. Thats why it is better to take car till Wyszkow, where you could stop a long-distance car or truck. 


country: PL
comment:
  To Warszawa. Popular hh place in Wroclaw. There is a sign FORBIDEN TO STOP, but nobody takes care.:) Just hhike after a sign and car will appears. You can get here using bus Nr.128 till station PSIE POLE - STACIJA PKP


country: PL
comment:
  to Warshawa. There is a bus stop. And there is a streetlights on the crossroad. Trafic to Warshawa is 24 hours a day. Easy hhiking:)


country: LT
comment:
  To Warshawa, to South and West Europe. Now, when there is no control custom anymore, a lot of people are using existing parking slots for resting. You can use a tacktic of direct asking here and probably will succcess.:) 


country: PL
comment:
  To Biakystok, Lomza, Suwalki, LT, LV, EST, RU. At laest 50% of whole Polish tranzit cargo trafic from West to East goes throgh this place. You have very high chance to get a car directly out from Poland (for 500-800 km)


country: NL
comment:
  place yourself just before the traffic light on the side of the driver between the two leans. have your board direction utrecht ready and smile at the drivers when they stop during a red phaseâ€¦ i never had towait long then 10 minutes to get either to the next petrol station (2km further up the road) or to the next big station just before utrechtâ€¦ look up â€œtraffic light hitchhiking on hitchwikiâ€ when you are not familiar with hitchhiking in towns. 


country: FR
comment:
  It seems a really good spot because it is a big station, but when we arrived there nobody stopped us


country: DE
comment:
  Gas station Breisgau

  Excellent place to hitch north from Freiburg. Get here by taking bus no. 33 or 35 to Tiengen Bus stop Im MaierbrÃ¼hl. Major traffic here, you won't have to wait long to find the right car. It's even worth taking the bus from freiburg which takes one hour alltogether. It's good to print out the way from the bus stop to the gas station though, or you'll end up with very dirty shoes.


country: DE
comment:
  This Autohof is a bad place to get away: mostly regional cars. But maybe you're lucky asking the truckers.


country: CZ
comment:
  Not so many cars, but they are basically all going to the good direction. Just ask to be dropped on next gas station. (doshli pumpa)


country: LV
comment:
  to Riga, Kuldiga, Ventspils. A lot of local cars here (mostly going shopping), but enough place for drivers to stop. and you have a nice chanse to get a car to Grobina (town 10 km from Liepaja), where is a good place for hhiking. Write down your destination aim and if you will not get a lift after 20 min - change position.


country: LV
comment:
  to Riga, Ventspils, Kuldiga. Not very good  hhiking position, because speed of cars is quite high, but you are visible from a distance and there is a place to stop a car for drivers.


country: EE
comment:
  to Tallinn. I preffer not to walk through all Parnu and hhike on the city boarder. Its better to start here.:) A lot of locals, but if will write down your destination, you will not wait too long for the direct lift.


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot for hitching out of Weingarten towards direction Ulm. Make sure you have a sign. Cars can stop along the road.


country: GB
comment:
  Direction Cromer following the coast, slow traffic, obvious destination and place for a car to pull aside.


country: GB
comment:
  After the roundabout direction east, it would be possible as most of the traffic is low, though a better spot exists a mile further down the road.


country: GB
comment:
  Direction West (Wells), around that corner (or further) a car can pull aside or you can try hitching a ride from the Gas Station


country: CH
comment:
  Great place for direction Solothurn, Basel, Zurich.
  Take bus no. 11 to the last station. You can use a short distance ticket for 2,- CHF.


country: DE
comment:
  here is a bus-stop and a petrol station. this spot is excellent to get to braunschweig or to the a2. never waited longer than 10 minutes.


country: FI
comment:
  Towards Kuopio, Varkaus; Either hh'ing here or asking the drivers at the gas station on the other side of the highway.


country: FI
comment:
  E63/9/23 east- and southwards; you can first try here and if it doesn't work out, walk further down the road.


country: ES
comment:
  Take the bus to Betis and walk to the roundabout. ask for the direction of the autopista. you can go via the highway or the parallel road, which also works, since lots of people want to avoid the highway toll. but it's slow of course.
  so maybe use a sign "Cadiz".


country: GR
comment:
  A service station and several shops just behind the border. All cars/trucks go this way, so hitch a ride here towards Plovdiv/Bulgaria!


country: SI
comment:
  Great place to hh towards Koper, Nova Gorica, Postojna, Italy, Rijeka (Croatia). Hitchike next to the highway sign. it is a very common spot, to get there take bus number 6 from the center to the last station, Dolgi Most


country: SI
comment:
  Great spot towards Maribor (MB), Celje (CE) and Graz (Austria). Stand next to the highway sign, it's a very popular spot. Arrive there by taking bus 6 to station "Smelt" (Direction Crnuce), from there continue straight and you will see the highway on your right.


country: DE
comment:
  Emergency rest stop before the traffic light. Very good if you are going towards Metelen. If going north, just cross the street and try it along the hard shoulder. This spot was recommended to me by the German border police ;) It's also easy to get rides here towards Enschede.


country: DE
datetime: 2006-05-02 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Service station Münsterland, much traffic on the way towards Dortmund (Ruhrarea), Cologne, Hamburg etc. Also chance to get on the A43 to Recklinghausen and Gelsenkirchen.


country: DE
comment:
  Traffic lights and bus stop. Easy to get rides to the city center. Your spot if you got off at the service station for going towards Muenster


country: PL
comment:
  it's really good place to start hichhiking out of Slupsk , direction to Poznan , you can take bus no 5 from the center , leave on the last stop , and then hike about 1/1,5 km best regards , good luck 


country: GB
comment:
  Direction- M1 (south or north)

  Leaving leicester, walking down Narborough Rd away from city centre,just past Tesco petrol station.  We stood out in bus lane so were fairl visable, cars should be able to stop easily because of bus lane.  We waited here for 3 minutesand got a lift straight to London.  This is your last chance for cars to stop before road narrows.


country: DE
datetime: 2006-05-18 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Service station "Helmstedt Süd",next station in 5km!(old border East Germany), good to get lifts to Mageburg, Berlin or Poland!


country: DE
datetime: 2006-05-18 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Gas station "Irxleben", good to get lifts Southeast to Halle/Saale, Leipzig or East to Berlin or Magdeburg


country: LV
comment:
  I waited less than 5 minutes at this spot, when hitchhiking to Radviliskis, Lithuania.  I got a ride directly to Siauliai!  (Which about 20 km away from Radviliskis).  Just make a big LT sign, and you're set!


country: DE
comment:
  to the north or to the northwest, this seems to be a good position. find someone to change to the A3 if you want to go to Frankfurt or GieÃŸen. Or find someone to follow the A7 in direction Fulda, Kassel.


country: DE
comment:
  to go to the south on the a7. from braunschweig take the bus to rÃ¼ningen and exit at station raabestraÃŸe. then cross the bridge and walk about 300m over the fields to the station. not many traffic at this station but almost better as if you would wait on the highway entry


country: AU
comment:
  This is where the Pacific Highway starts going South, it's inner city, but just past the on ramp, cars are going pretty slow and its a good spot. 


country: AU
comment:
  Not a bad spot (for going north) if you cant get out further towards the airport. Most ppl wont be going far, but should get you out of town a bit. Inner City Bypass just turns into a main road, which will then take you to the onramp onto the Bruce Highway (north) and the airport.


country: AU
comment:
  Best spot to hitch out of if you're going north towards Sunshine Coast. A bit of the traffic might be going to the airport, but most will be going at least an hour. 


country: AU
comment:
  Seriously couldn't find a better hitching spot that this in australia. Anyone would get a lift in less than 5 mins. Anywhere on this road is good, but especially on the bit near the BP petrol station. Traffic will be going either North (towards brisbane) or West (to Lismore)


country: AU
comment:
  Get a ride really easy here, heading south towards Sydney. Pretty quiet little mainroad, (not major highway) but plenty of traffic. 


country: AU
comment:
  Hitched out from here heading South (Syd/Melb) and just stood right on the hwy. Plenty of space to pull over, pretty safe spot. Got a ride in 10mins.


country: AU
comment:
  On ramp here onto the Princes Hwy. Anywhere along this HWY is fine, plenty of space to pull over. I went from Syd to Melb this way once and its absolutely beautiful scenery but slightly longer waits, less traffic, and cars are only going 30-60k down the road, sometimes less. Beautiful though! 


country: GB
comment:
  It is a petrol station in the Highway M1. Its a very good place to start if you want to go far, and you dont have time to wait for a lift from the city center. To get here you can take the buses 13A, 48, 152, 153, 158 from the center of Leicester. The ticket is around 2 or 3 pounds. If you say you want to go as close as possible to the M1 bridge, the bus driver will tell you where to jump off along Hinckley road. You take then Baines Lane until you are in the petrol station, you can use this place both to go north or south (there is a bridge before the petrol station and in the restourant as well). IÂ´ve use it on April 2008. There are no gates, easy acces. I was droped here when coming from London, I went back to the bus stop in Hinckley road, and somebody picked me up in 5 minutes to the city center. for further questions danielodv(at)gmail.com


country: FR
comment:
  Hola. Nice spot to get a lift to UK. The petrol station is located in the right side of the high way only (direction to Calais). Try to get a lift at least to the M25 (highway around London), other wise if they dont go as far as the first petrol station in England, you will have to ask a lift in Dover (is not nice, too much traffic). You can also change the vehicule in the ferry. If you try this, my advice is that you do it inmediatly after parking inside, or even better in the queue waiting for the ferry after the tickets control. Good luck my friends. April 2008.further questions to danielodv(at)gmail.com


country: CA
comment:
  From Downtown: Take McNabb bus number 5 to the end of the line.  Walk east till just after the lanes merge into one and stand there.


country: BG
comment:
  gateway to South Bulgaria. Excellent spot with well enough room for cars to pull over. You can walk to here from center (15min) or take bus N:4,5,13,30 or 70 and get off under the bridge.


country: BG
comment:
  gateway to South Bulgaria. There is a gas staion here and enough room for cars to pull over. You have to walk to here from the town(25-30min).


country: BG
comment:
  Road to Arbanasi(heritage village) and Gorna Oriahovitsa(major railway hub). This is Tsarevets square and there is big traffic in this direction - should get picked up in 15-20mins.


country: BG
comment:
  Road to Arbanasi(heritage village) and Gorna Oriahovitsa(major railway hub). There is big traffic in this direction - should get picked up in 15-20mins.


country: BG
comment:
  The road to Arbanasi and Veliko Turnovo (a major road junction) - it's a short ride (7km) and there's a lot of traffic. Usually should get picked up within 15-20min


country: BG
comment:
  If you've been in Arbanasi you can hitch back to Veliko Turnovo (or Gorna Oriahovitsa) from this junction. Lots of traffic but drivers are speeding at this area. 


country: DE
comment:
  gas station at the motorway that you can easily reach by bus from lÃ¼denscheid center. Use the bus to Kalve where you can get on the stations on either way over the supply ramps. Usualy you'll find somebody, but the stations are not too crowded.


country: DE
comment:
  Gas station on the motorway "Wetterau". There is a tunnel so you can easyly cross the motorway.
  Excellent stop if you're going north either to Dortmund or Kassel. 
  Comming from Dortmund I stop here, switch sides and go up north and east to chemnitz very often. Faster than directly trying to get east.
  Very very many cars go north from here!!!!


country: NL
comment:
  Mild traffic, construction (May, 2008) makes pulling over difficult but doable. Waited 15 minutes with light traffic on a Saturday morning, heading north to Utrecht.


country: CA
comment:
  This ramp is mainly cars going to the nextexit when going West, and mainly construction trucks when going East. 1 hour then I left. 


country: CA
comment:
  A little walk from town but more than worth it if you are heading West. Lots of place for the cars to stop and a street light so they see you really well.


country: CA
comment:
  Heading West, you will probably get a ride to  Le Bic from there. Just hitch in front of the supermarket, there is a street light and a place where cars can safetly stop.


country: CA
comment:
  Towards Bathurst, good ramp. Ask to be dropped there if you arrive from Quebec with driver that continues in GaspÃ©sie.


country: CA
comment:
  Le Restaurant du Pecheur: a regular stop, a very large parking entrance. Even if placed on the top of the hill, you can easily be seen if you are in the middle of the parking's length. Many long distancers stop there for lunch. Never waited more than 20 minutes there.


country: CA
comment:
  Heading West, usually you can get a ride to RiviÃ¨re du Loup. There is quita a lot of traffic, so hitchiking right after the street light might be a good idea. Same opposite, heading East


country: CA
comment:
  Might be long (and if low traffic, might be worth walking to the highway, but illegal. It's best to give it a try here first. Usually not too long.


country: CA
comment:
  Service station, very common stop for trucker, might be the best place to stop if you have to change rides because you/your driver is going to route 132/185. 


country: CA
comment:
  If you are coming from Quebec, take the Ferry to Levis and walk or hitch a ride to this place where you can easily catch people making longer distances. It's very hard to leave Quebec city by the bridges to the 20 otherwise.


country: CA
comment:
  Last Stop going East before the bridges. Most of the people coming from Montreal go to Quebec city, therefore you best ask to be dropped here if you are heading East South of the St-Lawrence River.


country: CA
comment:
  Heading East, a bit further, but during business hours it might be more easy than the one on Marie-Victorin. It's in an industrial park.


country: CA
comment:
  Good to try, but sometimes you just can't get it there ! If you are out of the business hours, that's still the best one you can have.


country: FR
comment:
  Aire de la Courneuve: Hard to reach but the best way towards Picardy/Lille. Often many hitchikers there.  Hole in the cloture nearby.


country: FR
comment:
  So far, the best spot I know to depart Lille towards Paris. Not a good one to my standards, but it worked well.


country: FR
comment:
  To me, this place was dangerous heading towards Paris: the proper lane is not the right one ! I did not stay there


country: DE
comment:
  I waited 20 minutes here to go to Dusseldorf, but the guy took me to another place.. can't judge based on one time !


country: NL
comment:
  I use this place always when I departure in the direction of Utrecht (and Germany). Done it already 10 times. The place has additional lane that is closed where cars can stop easily so it's a good spot!


country: PL
comment:
  there are 2 fuel stations in the direction of Germany. its perfect spot, u can walk from Kolbaskowo (10 minutes) to which you can come by bus from Szczecin. greetings, rozwal


country: LT
comment:
  Just after the big Gariunai open-air market. Used many times, usually pretty good place to get a ride


country: DE
comment:
  to go to kiel this seems to be a possible spot from hamburg. many cars are entering the a7 to the north from here


country: GB
comment:
  One of the few places where you can hold up a sign with a distant destination (Land's End) tha will get you rides.


country: DE
comment:
  seems to be excellent to get a lift to hamburg but it is a bit more difficult to get a lift farer than hamburg on the a7 but at least a good point in both directions


country: DE
comment:
  this service station seems to be highly frequented by other hitchhikers. there is a huge sation on the side which leeds to the west and you will be able to find a lift in direction dortmund within a few minutes to the west, this is almost excellent). a bit more difficult is to find someone who changes to motorway to the a7 to the north. and even more difficult to find someone heading to the south from here. there is a small service area on the other side on the motorway which enables you to find a lift in direction east (berlin) too


country: CZ
comment:
  Many times leaving Prague sunday early afternoon I hoped to be home (Gliwice in PL) before midnight. 95% succeded
  I dislike standing at Cerny Most among other hitchers thefore I walk to the first gas station. There  I ask to the Hradec K. and get off at the place I indicate  here. It's a marvelous one.
  ALL  the traffic from the highway stops here. 
  A perfect spot either to ask or show your destination board to the driver. :)
  I Never waited more than 15 min in here and mostly got a direct ride to Wroclaw.
  Let us pray to the hitcher's God so that the motorway construction is to be neverending. once  the motorwayis finished the place will be lost. 


country: DE
comment:
  needed over 1.5 hours to get a ride in direction dortmund. most people are heading direct to the north to duisburg or something. must be better weekdays but dont know. to the south or the north this is doable but it is difficult to the northeast...


country: PL
comment:
  Gosh.. 
  I think every single polish
  hitcher knows those tank stations.
  U may catch a ride to Ukrainian border on this side of A4 or to Amsterdam or Paris on the oposite.
  Getting a lift to KrakÃ³w its so called
  &quot;Hitchhikers'sunday walk&quot;


country: DE
comment:
  deutsch: penzberg richtung iffeldorf/ seeshaupt/ autobahn --- english: penzberg direction iffeldorf/ seeshaupt/ highway


country: DE
comment:
  nach mÃ¼nchen rein geht super, auf der auffahrt aber vor dem autobahnschild stehen! --- good place to munich, stand on driveway but in front of highway-sign!


country: DE
comment:
  many cars are going the b9 in direction remagen, andernach, koblenz. place yourself somewhere, whre a car is able to stop and it will only take some minutes to get away.  dont await very long lifts


country: BE
comment:
  Direction Antwerpen, Brussels, (Gent).
  Stand before the blue "start of motorway" sign, the car can stop on the hard shoulder.


country: HU
comment:
  Take a bus number 2, and you find a petrol station or you can hitchhike on the road too. Good if going towards KaposvÃ¡r.


country: GB
comment:
  The best stop to hitch rides get yourself a free ride across the Channel! Just strike up a conversation to the drivers parked by the travel center, make sure you have a good talk before you start mentioning you want to hitch a ride with them. 
  Some drivers might be suspicious of you and think you may want to cross the Channel with fake documents...
  You might have to convince your drivers to change his ticket since once you will convince him to take you in his printed ticket will have a certain number of passengers already registered. I found a ride in ten minutes and then convinced my friendly drivers to change their ticket from 2 to 4 passengers. The boat was full and the next one was scheduled 30 minutes later. My drivers agreed on changing their ticket and taking the next boat.
  Have fun!


country: GB
comment:
  For direction OUT from King's Lynn, this is the ultimate place.  Its normally very easy to get a ride within about 15 minutes when alone, although my one time trying with my brother failed miserably.  Have a sign for Cambridge, or Ely, or even London.  It is situated just on the beginning of the A10, there is a very nice lay-by for anyone to pull into.


country: DE
comment:
  on a friday morning (even on a day when holidays in bavaria were started) it took me over 2 hours to get away with my "salzburg" sign and also only to munich city. there is only low traffic on this station


country: DE
comment:
  it is only a small petrol station but just 5km west of the border to austria. its the last chance to get the vignette here before austria (people need a vignette to travel on austrian highways) and so it makes it very good spot to find a lift in direction east (Linz, Wien) a bit harder is it to find someone to the south (Villach, Italy, Slovenia) but it is also a doable thing here


country: AT
comment:
  the last service station before the tauern tunnel. you can find a lift in both directions salzburg (north) and villach and slovenia (south)


country: ES
comment:
  Salamanca-Valladolid.
  Its not a good spot, but I only did it once and it took me 20 minutes (Maybe I was very lucky). Its the acces to the motorway in the direction of Valladolid. I came here by foot.


country: GB
comment:
  I have used this point spoted by Lnx. I got a lift here in 10 minutes, but I didnt find it very save. To arrive to this point, I took the underground to henton central, then I walked to the place (15 minutes). In the bus stop Tilling Road, 2 minutes far from the spot, the buses number 112, 142, 182, 232, 266, 611. You can catch a bus rather than the underground. This place is hard to find if you dont have a London city map with you.


country: IT
comment:
  This spot is good for every direction: most of the cars go to highway and THEN there's the division of the directions. When you stay here if police says something walk 20m in north direction. There's a board "consorzio agricolo" and enough space for the cars to stop.


country: DE
comment:
  Resting place - direction Prague. Not many cars passing, but many going to prague, if you ask the drivers, you get away in cca. half an hour. (i was lucky that driver originally going berlin -chemnitz took me there).


country: CZ
comment:
  A fine place to start from to Kutna Hora. Just take bus to Uhrineves, and somebody will take you for sure.


country: SK
comment:
  Looks like a good place - enough space, and drivers see you, but I waited longer than 2 hours. If you want to go direction Male Karpaty, it's better to take bus to Pezinok.


country: SK
comment:
  Terrible place for direction Jablonica. Just lorries full of concrete from Rohoznik to Trnava passed along . Waited 2 hours. (Thanks god to that old man accross the street than invited me to try his wine ;)


country: SK
comment:
  Trying to get lift from this road is senseless - it has a high slope and everyone is driving fast. Take bus to Makov, where you'll have more luck


country: DE
comment:
  where the "middle ring road" is coming out of the tunnel there is enough place to stop for cars and they don't go too fast. good place, although watch out for ants!


country: CH
comment:
  take bus #20 to Wyler. Walk 200m, then cross the big crossroads. There is a bus stop with enough space.


country: CH
comment:
  From outside the trainstation, walk right, at the roundabout right to the underpass, then keep straight on until you reach the main road "Bernstrasse". Turn left. On the right side you see a gas station, right before the highway to Bern begins.


country: CH
comment:
  Cross the town center walking towards the Jura (mountain-chain). There you find a main road with a lot of traffic. Turn right and follow this street, you can already try to stop cars here. There are bus stops (#1, #2) where cars have space to stop. After about 2km the highway A5 going to ZÃ¼rich and Basel starts.


country: DE
comment:
  At the end of the village of Birgte this is the best spot for hitching towards Saerbeck, Emsdetten, Greven and MÃ¼nster. The road is only leading towards Saerbeck, and you'll have enough space here for stopping cars.


country: US
comment:
  There is a truck stop with cafe (employees allowed me to sleep at table while raining) and also a rest area. Long highway on-ramps east and west directions, easy for truckers to pull over. Medium amount of vehicle traffic at ramps, can also approach cars at gas station/ truck stop.


country: US
comment:
  I-25 north and south traffic enters highway off this road. Medium amount of traffic with a Giant gas station nearby. Heading south, find a safe spot to stand close to this location. Thumbing north (CO), walk along S. St Francis Dr, under the overpass, and hold sign or thumb before cars veer to the right to enter highway.


country: CZ
comment:
  Beware, if you are passing Vsetin in N/S direction, get dropped on the bypass - no the best place, but deffinitely better, than the centre (I used old CSSR map and there was no by-pass on it :()


country: HR
comment:
  Not the best spot for cars to stop, but good enough to get a ride quickly. It is a good spot for Belgrade and Budapest. A split in the highway will come after 20km so make sure you get a lift into the right direction from here.


country: HR
comment:
  There is a lot of traffic here going to the airport. There are some spots down this road where cars can stop easily. You can get a ride here to the highway, instead of walking down the whole way.


country: CH
comment:
  Easy to get there from the south/east of Biel. Just follow the main road "BrÃ¼ggstrasse/Portstrasse). The spot is a roundabout, cars see you from far away and can stop there. A lot of local traffic, not too many cars.. But still quite good to go to Bern or at least to the service station "Grauholz" shortly before Bern.


country: GB
comment:
  This is the Cardiff West Services. Still under construction in May 2008, so pretty bad spot. Found a lift in about 90minutes


country: GB
comment:
  From here you can get a lift to the motorway M4. Takes about 20minutes to walk to this spot from Kidwelly.
  Found a lift in about 20min.


country: GB
comment:
  Tried to get from here towards Carmarthenshire following the Brecon Road. 

  It took us quite long, so it might be better to try the southern route.

  Anyway, caught a lift to Brecon in 15mins


country: GB
datetime: 2007-11-06 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Frankley Service Station.

  You can get there by taking Bus #22 getting off at final destination. Then you have to walk the road further on, to the motorway. There is a bridge so you have access to both southern and northern directions.

  EDIT:
  From this spot I already hitched to Scotland, Cornwall and Wales. You can even get to the Northeast from here by following the M6 to Manchester and then turning eastwards.


country: NO
comment:
  its unbeleivable, but i somehow managed to get a lift from the end of the road A i Lofoten north, i had to change a couple of times, so what. 


country: NO
comment:
  all thraffic coming from the ferry, so make sure you get to know the ferry schedule before you start. Walk up to the small supermarket and stand there by the road. I had to wait about 40mins


country: DK
comment:
  Great spot for heading north to Aalborg/Fredrikshavn on the E45.  There's enough time for the cars to see you and enough space for them to stop.  Get the 25 bus to tilst vestervej and then walk along the viborvej for 5 mins.


country: DK
comment:
  Good spot for going north west towards Viborg and Thisted.  Visible to cars on the roundabout, with space to pull into the parking space.


country: NL
comment:
  Deventer. N348 (Deventerweg) x
  Capellenlaan. Bus 81 stop â€œVan der
  Capellenlaanâ€. Or from station 1400 m NE
  Stationsplein/Nieuwstad/Burg.
  Dijckmeesterweg/Deventerweg. Bus stop.


country: NL
comment:
  Arnhem, Doesburg, (Rotterdam). N348 (Bronsbergen). Bus 80 stop â€œDe Brinkâ€, 50 m W Harenbergweg, 300 m S Emmerikseweg, 200 m E N348. Bus stop.


country: NL
comment:
  Apeldoorn. N384 (Weg naar Voorst) x Kanonsdijk. Bus 89/504/515 stop â€œIJsselbrugâ€. Or 750 m SW/S Stationsplein/Kanonsdijk (IJsselburg), 25 m N Weg naar Voorst. Bus stop.


country: NL
comment:
  Arnhem, Doesburg, (Rotterdam). Kanonsdijk x N348 (Weg naar Voorst). Bus 89/504/515 stop â€œIJsselbrugâ€. Or 750 m SW/S Stationsplein/Kanonsdijk (IJsselburg).


country: NL
comment:
  Lochem, Ruurlo, (Hengelo), (Enschede). N346 (Rijksstraatweg) x Rhiederinklaan. Bus 54 stop "Rhiederinklaan". Bus stop.


country: DE
comment:
  Probably your best chance is asking the Danes, shopping at the hypermarket before crossing the border. To get there, take the bus towards Niebuell and get off after the bus underpasses the highway.


country: BE
datetime: 2007-11-28 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Very good place to get a hike to the UK, can get rides from people who go by Ferry (Oostende, Duinkerke, Calais) or by Tunnel (Calais) but as Frateric said, you have to convince people you are not an illegal immigrant or in possession of drugs. So have your passport ready, be shaved, speak good English/French/Dutch and put on your best clothes


country: DE
comment:
  Hitchhiking spot some 50m behind the traffic light. Take the tram to Sieker and hitch some rides/walk along the Detmolder Strasse until this traffic lights. Here the approach road to the highway begins. Excellent spot.


country: SK
comment:
  Towards Wien / Vienna. Since there is a motorway nowadays from Bratislava to Wien, much traffic will go over the motorway. That route is longer though. On this spot traffic is speeding up fast, and there is a two lane road, which is really senseless. Occupy one whole lane and stretch your thumb. This is the way to stop a car here, make yourself seen. Block one lane, so that drivers at least have to go to the left lane of this otherwise quiet road. Take the lift to the border, just after it it should be easy to get a ride to Wien. Or walk to the border first, as you prefer.


country: IT
comment:
  to croatia, rijeka this is an option but not many traffic crossing here.

  from trieste center take bus 38 and exit in basovizza


country: HR
comment:
  not many people are crossing the border to montenegro so you must be patient. nevertheless this is the only good way to find a lift to montenegro


country: GR
comment:
  this is a big road out of florina in direction edessa and thessaloniki. you can definetly use this for hitchhiking this direction


country: DE
comment:
  Very great place. You can easily get very long lifts in any direction.
  From Bruchsal train station, take bus no. 125 to "Rasthof Ost" for north or "Rasthof West" for south.


country: DE
comment:
  Good for direction Prenzlau, Szeczin.
  Take a tram to Indira-Gandhi-Str. Then walk or take a bus along the Berliner Allee and find a decent place where cars can pull over.


country: FI
comment:
  To HÃ¤meenlinna and Tampere. You can travel to this spot by bus. You should try from beginning of the HÃ¤meenlinnanvÃ¤ylÃ¤ (and end of Mannerheimintie) before this spot.


country: FI
comment:
  To Lahti and Porvoo. This place was under construction/repair in may 2008. Place was only average before.


country: FI
comment:
  To Kuopio, Mikkeli and Lahti. First you should take ride to the ABC in Vaajakoski. You can use sign "ABC" (people will understand). From ABC it's very easy to continue both (Lahti/Kuopio) directions.


country: FI
comment:
  To Tampere. This is one option if you are closer to this spot than centrum. Beginning of the rantavÃ¤ylÃ¤ is better anyway.


country: FI
comment:
  A bit far from  centrum, but if you end up to here, there is a good bus-stop where you can hitchhike from. And lights for cars. Directions: JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤ and Lahti.


country: DE
comment:
  Traffic island to stand on for hitchhiking.Cars have to stop along the street, but that might be possible. Most traffic goes towards Nordhorn, but if cars go up the highway they mostly go to the NL. Many Dutch cars here. Spot is doable, but expect some waiting time. Forget it on Sundays!


country: NL
comment:
  Bus stop, good spot to hitch into the city. Best is to stand in front of the bus stop where cars can stop. Traffic is a bit faster here, so make yourself visible enough.


country: NL
comment:
  Big bus bay where cars can stop, and traffic lights directly in front of you, so drivers can see you very good. Good for rides onto the A35, many people from the University and Industrial park drive along here.


country: NL
comment:
  Bus stop, good to hitch towards Oldenzaal. Cars go slowly and see you early enough. Enough space to stop.


country: DK
comment:
  Cath a train from the main station (its kind of hard to find, ask a local) to the S-Bahnstop Sydhavn. Its still zone 1 in Copenhagen, so 20DKK for bus and train from the city boundaries. There at Sydhavn, get out and walk under the bridge, just continue the long street. There is also a bus stopp, but i dont know if you can also catch it with the zone 1 ticket. Walking is about 20mins or more, depending on how much you carry. There is NO shade. and NO shade where you wait for a lift. Be careful, getting a lift to Malmo is most likely. Depending on that persons destination in MalmÃ¶ it will be very hard to get away from there too. I tried to h-h further north and had a sign Stockholm. Altough many swedish cars drive past, they wont stop. Be prepared and write down the liftershalte of Malmo too. The thing is that getting to Malmo SvÃ¥gertorp is easy, but getting to the driveway of the northern direction (in Malmoe) again is almost impossible unless drives you to the other side of the road. You cannot walk there. 


country: SE
comment:
  im not exactly sure about the location, but somewhere here there is a Mc Donalds and a gas staion where many ppl stop. Try to find a local who can give you a lift there in case you got strandet at Innre Ringen like i did. From the gas station I got a lift to my destination (in the middle of nowhere on the countrysite in sweden) by just asking ppl. Pls only ask ppl at the gas station, otherwise in sweden you dont have much chance for a lift. 


country: SE
comment:
  Its amazing, but its possible to get a lift there. I stood there too late in the morning, maybe try at 8am in the morning, as many ppl drive to work. It took me only about 20min to get a lift to the motorway. Theres enough space, and cars are not that fast yet if you stand close to the roundabout


country: SE
comment:
  There is a petrol station here with lots of trucks. Ask the drivers, forget about the swedish ppl in the cars, they dont usually bother picking/up somebody. I got a lift to Orebro from there


country: SE
comment:
  it took me just 5 minuts to get a ride noth. ThereÂ´s a bus stop good to stop and with good visibility


country: IE
comment:
  Very good place for direction Macroom, Killarney. Take the bus from the University College to the last station. Ask the driver for the way to the national road. He has to go there anyway and might take you a little further than the last station.


country: NL
comment:
  Getting a lift from the point took us 3 min. Perfect place wit a bus line allowing driver to stop. 100 m further there are trafic lights for those who don't feel like standing and hitching. 
  There is little tankstation right after the roundabout which can be a shelter when it rains.


country: NL
comment:
  We came from Leeuwrden and got off at the exit. there is a bus bay and line. in case U have a badluck tthere is a bus station ribgt behind :) getting a lift to Den Helder on saturdays afternoonn took us 7 min.
  while hitching I observed that there was quite a lot traffic from the oposite direction (N99 entering the A7 motorway direction Amsterdam and the entrance way looked decent for hitchers


country: FR
comment:
  good place to live aix, very clause is a gas station(salon) so u can ask for
  place for the cars to stop
  :)
  nusti


country: FR
comment:
  From Paris to the A1 (motorway to Calais or Belgium). My friend was asking the cars at the petrol station and I was standing with the cardboard saying "Lille" and "A1". There are two petrol stations in 30 meters, but not a lot of people seem to go to the motorway from them. Despite of all a car took us after 30 minutes. To get here you can catch a metro, line 1, to Port de la Chapelle (1,50 euro).


country: FR
comment:
  From Calais to Paris, to Lille or to Belgium. Cars coming from the city or Lorries coming from the parking-petrol station near by. My cat and me we found it very busy at 7.00 in the morning on a Friday. It took us around 30 minutes with light rain falling. We were standing at the acces of the motorway, down the roundabout. The night before a tracker droped us here, and we slept at the fields. Its hard for cars to stop without disturbing the trafic, and even harder for trackers.


country: FR
comment:
  Calais to Belgium, Paris or England. This place is a parking and petrol station only for truckers. Around 30 trucks sleep here everyday before or after taking the ferry. On June 2008 this place was being reformed, despite of that It was still open and busy. Might be helpful to be droped here when you get a lift to Calais only, or when the driver doesnt want to take you to the docks. I asked around 10 lorries here before I moved to the roundabout, because I was going to Paris, and most of them were heading either to England or Belgium.


country: GB
comment:
  I agree with the other post. You can get access to this place from the road that drives paralel to the motorway, the fence is broken at the point where my marker is spotted. There are buses stoping on the road, you should be able to catch one from swanley towards here. Becareful, there is a MacDonalds.


country: DE
comment:
  Dir. East

  Just a couple of meter before the tunnel there is enough space to stop infront of Sport Kiefer. 10-20 minutes to get a ride. 


country: DE
comment:
  Dir. East

  Falkensteig is the first possibility to hitch a ride along the B31 coming from Freiburg. There is enough space for cars to stop, they have to go slow (there is a traffic light somewhere) and there is plenty of traffic.


country: DE
comment:
  Dir: Feldberg

  Coming from Freiburg, you can either choose to take the official B317, or this "secret" road passing "Bruderhalde". There is not that much traffic, but it's much easier for cars to stop and somebody will eventually pick you up. 


country: RO
comment:
  Plenty of place to pull over and everyone is going at least somewhat to the south.  Can get here with public transport.


country: SE
comment:
  Go to the bus stop "Karolinen" Bus 1, 4, 6 go there or just walk from the centre. The next right turn is for Stockholm. I tried and only waited a couple of minutes unil somebody gave me a lift to the next gas station along the highway. Spot is easily accesible and visibility is good


country: SE
comment:
  Somewhere (not entirely sure where exactly) on this road there is a gas station where losts of cars from BOTH directions stop. Also trucks, but most traffic going to Oslo when i was there (morning at 10am). You can ask the ppl at the gas station and as well stand next to the road, as visibility is ok (on top of a hill and speed is not that high (70). I waited about 30min until somebody picked me up and by coincidence he drove all the way to Stockholm. 


country: DK
comment:
  if you just arrived by plane and need to get away form there, its most worth a try. its the last exit beofre the bridge towards Sweden. Also locals leave thir cars in the parkings there during their holidays, so not only rental cars.


country: ES
comment:
  Salamanca-Valladolid.
  Its a petrol station where you can talk to the drivers, if theres no a lot of them tanking, you can in the meantime show your board to the traffic.


country: ES
comment:
  Salamanca-Valladolid. this petrol station has a bit more traffic than the other one closer to the city. Show your plack to the cars if theres no body tanking to ask. Good luck, spain is hard for hh. I have done this twice in September 2008, one hour waiting in average.


country: FI
comment:
  To north and south from Mikkeli: walk a few kilometers north to Visulahti. Hitch-hike from the crossroad of the Visulahti camping area, there are bus stops at both sides of the road.


country: NL
comment:
  take bus nr 5 (get off at kemal ataturkstraat) or 77 (get off at P+R Veemarkt) 
  and stand on on-ramp. 
  I never have to wait long.


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot for hitchhiking north towards Berlin. Opinions differ about this ramp, but usually it's possible. Try to wait on the traffic islands.


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot, hitchhiking possible in both directions. Most traffic goes southwards! Easy to stop for cars along the hard shoulder.


country: DE
comment:
  Just behind the roundabout, cars are slow, good spot for hitchhiking towards IbbenbÃ¼ren, Uffeln, Steinbeck, Dickenberg, PÃ¼sselbÃ¼ren.


country: DE
datetime: 2007-03-25 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  Walk from Hörstel City to Rheine-Kanalhafen (Bus only 2x per day), there you can try to get up on the A30 direction Amsterdam.Never try it on a sunday,wasteful! within a week lot of people to Rheine or further, nice to get a lift to the ramp Rheine-Nord which is ways better!


country: DE
comment:
  There is a big bus stop where cars can stop. But sometimes the cars are a bit fast there.  IN the evening you can try to get a lift at the traffic lights at the crossways WÃ¼rmtalstraÃŸe/FÃ¼rstenrieder StraÃŸe


country: GB
comment:
  Travelling in the King's Lynn direction, rides are usually the really easy when you're going through Ely.. It's normally good to get dropped off at the roundabout before this one, for then you can hitch whilst walking to this roundabout, and I've never not gotten a ride whilst walking in Ely..


country: GB
comment:
  Direction Newmarket - this road feels kind of endless, I think there is a lay-by about a mile further up but this is where I hitched, and took my lunch break.  Wonderful countryside, but not such a great hitching spot.


country: GB
comment:
  Direction Ely - this is the best place to hitch out of Newmarket by far.  It gets traffic from the A14 as well as the Newmarket area.  There is a care home and then a lay-by right after it, where cars can safely pull over.


country: GB
comment:
  The best hitching spot I know.. Hitch normally to King's Lynn, though I've been taken as far as Thetford (and 2 people giving me long rides, one to East London and one to Essex, told me they'd just been from Heacham (4 miles north of Dersingham), though they picked me up in places further along).  Make sure if you're going further than King's Lynn to have a sign for the Hardwick roundabout, as it isn't reachable by public transport.


country: GB
comment:
  There aren't really any good spots for hitching out of Hunstanton, but I think anywhere after this roundabout, in direction King's Lynn, would get a ride within 30 mins.. The nearest lay-by is in Heacham, although there is a dirt road turn-off at the bottom of this hill.


country: GB
comment:
  Direction King's Lynn - the road is very narrow, and there isn't any room for pedestrians to walk alongside it.  I hitched from the grass path, next to the river.  Great countryside, but the grass path was 2 metres above the road.  Avoid getting dropped off at Littleport if you can!


country: GB
comment:
  Direction Newmarket - terrible place to hitch, I was waiting for about an hour until I got a ride, at rush hour.. Barely any traffic seemed to go towards Newmarket, and a lot of drivers/people seemed angry.


country: FR
comment:
  quite little space to park but stays a good spot (-> Domfront). bus 3 can bring you from center near this point (halt Â« Grands Champs Â» )


country: DE
comment:
  Great place, for east (A6), north or south (A5). Take the tram no. 1, 2, S4 or S5 to Weinweg. It's a double-ramp, on the south side there is more traffic and more place to pull over.


country: FR
comment:
  quite good place to HHike towards Germany. I tried all spots around and this one is best. Easy to get here with public transport.


country: FI
comment:
  In these days there are enough car's in road 13 to hitchhike. Busstop is good point to continue journey towards Mikkeli. 

  There is a Shell-gas station / restaurant near crossroad.


country: GB
comment:
  Fairly good spot for hitching out of Colchester down the A12 to London.  Lots of cars going quite slowly and usually a lot of space.  Average waiting time has been 20-45 mins so far.


country: GB
comment:
  It's worked a few times, but there are far better spots to get out of London on the A12.  Try Redbridge roundabout further down.


country: GB
comment:
  REDBRIDGE ROUNDABOUT A12 towards Chelmsford, Colchester and Ipswich.  Big parking space, with lots of traffic going by.  Might take a few rides to get out of London from here, but a great starting point and it's easily accessible by tube (Redbridge station).


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot to hitch towards Freiburg for people who don't want to wait for the bus or hitchhikers who have been dropped out at gas station "schauinsland". You can let them drop you out at moosweiher to take the tram no. 1 towards inner city.


country: TR
comment:
  This is the main road that goes through east of Turkey, especially Ankara. When you HH before or after the Paybox, u can be a very kind guest of a truck driver.


country: TR
comment:
  its a bad place to HH,but if u really want to get out of the town by HH, u can select this conjuction spot of most roads. The road is wide, but many space on right to stop and take you for cars. No trucks are going through here. I recommend to take a bus and go further as possible as you can.


country: TR
comment:
  This is the best place to HH through south from Istanbul. Most of the cars and trucks are taking the ferry from Eskihisar and there is only one road passing through here so very likely to get on in half an our ...


country: TR
comment:
  ts a bad place to HH,but if u really want to get out of the town by HH, u can select this conjuction spot of most roads. The road is wide, but many space on right to stop and take you for cars. No trucks are going through here. I recommend to take a bus and go further as possible as you can. Maybe to  Eskihisar Ferry, about 50 kms.


country: CZ
comment:
  Heading South, into Bohemia. I didn't actually hitch here, but the spot looked very good, with a good chance to thumb cars just before they head onto the main road.


country: SE
comment:
  take the T bana to Norsborg and get out at Hallunda (for last stop). 
  walk down 'Tre Kallors vag'. 
  and you find a good spot with a gas station. a lot of cars are going south all the way to denmark.

  good luck   


country: NL
comment:
  Petrol-station. Just a bit further than the official hitchhiking spot at the Amstel Station. Not many cars, but you can talk with the drivers.


country: DE
comment:
  DIRECTION: NORTH, Rostock

  I was standing there for no more than 20 minutes, got a ride straight to Rostock. I had a label saying 'Rostock'. Maybe it was just luck, but the 104 road goes exactly this direction. You can stand behind the crossroads or ask people at the Oil! petrol station 150 m west. 150 m east there is truck park also.


country: AU
comment:
  Bad hitching around here...very big road, very fast cars - very hot ;)
  I recommend taking the costal road...


country: AU
comment:
  Very good spot for hitching northbounds near McDonalds.
  Traffic has to slow down, heaps of cars,...what else do u want?


country: DK
comment:
  Not so much traffic, but a good place to stop, and friendly people. This island is a very good place to sleep if you have a tent: free camping.


country: DE
comment:
  Be sure to be ready for when the ferry arrives: a big rush of cars comes by, but then nothing for the coming half hour until the next ferry arrives. Good place to stop a car;


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Paris/Dijon. Walk from Perrache Station to Pont Kitchener. Traffic stops shortly at the traffic lights. Make eye contact with drivers. Finding a ride can take a while but is worth waiting for. Show sign "Limonest" which is only 5 km outside Lyon. Ask driver to put you off at the gas station near Parc Dardilly, which is a real good spot for finding a further ride. 


country: FR
comment:
  north towards Thionville and Luxembourg. I hitched with a sign right before the ramp, on the bridge.


country: NO
comment:
  walk out from the terminals to the exit of the garages. i bet every car goes to oslo. tried once, but waited less than 2 mins.


country: SE
comment:
  The last possible (and probably also the best) spot to hitch from NykÃ¶ping to Stockholm. This is a new bus stop, and nicely located just after the roundabout, so pretty ideal. 


country: TR
comment:
  Excellent place to HH through YÃ¼zyÄ±l, AyrancÄ±, Ã‡ankaya or Dikmen. I've HHed here for 3 years, everyday ...


country: TR
comment:
  A good place to go west direction from Ankara. The cities you can find a ride are : EskiÅŸehir, Bursa or Ä°zmir. There are newly built Gas Stations in here, and enough space for cars and trucks to stop.


country: TR
comment:
  This road is the main direction through Konya and Cappadocia. There are good spots on the road, but i prefer gas station exits.


country: TR
comment:
  My Home Town :) if you're on this direction, here is a good spot to reach Ä°zmir, BalÄ±kesir or AyvalÄ±k.


country: TR
comment:
  Any car you stop will take you to Edremit, AyvalÄ±k or AltÄ±noluk. Very nice spot if you're heading this way ...


country: DE
comment:
  This is a restplace, an extremely good hitching spot. If someone offers you a ride to the nearest gas station, think twice, because this is almost too good a spot to lose!


country: DE
comment:
  on A7, A5, and A4. at the intersection by burger king is good for any direction.  people stop for food and gas, and will pick you up.


country: AT
comment:
  A busstop on the main road from the center towards the highway. For direction East, Linz, Vienna and Graz


country: CZ
comment:
  Go trought citystreet OlomouckÃ¡ in direction to shopping centre TESCO (you can ask people, everybody know where is this), on the roundabout turn right go 10 metres and stay between ped crossing and busstation. To Olomouc you will stay at last 10 minutes.


country: CZ
comment:
  Take tram number 8. to station KrÃ¡snÃ©ho, from the station go to the overbridge. To Olomouc you will stay over head 30 minutes.


country: CZ
comment:
  From city go in direction to the main railway station, after that follow the main street (he is turning left) and on the crossroads go right. There is long free place right for hitchhiking (15 minutes to ZlÃ­n or UherskÃ© HradiÅ¡tÄ›)


country: CA
comment:
  Going west from Toronto.
  There's a nice straigth place to stop on the ramp to 400 highway.
  To get there: get bus to brampton, hitch to Orangeville and from there to this point.


country: BE
comment:
  So-so-ish, there are traffic lights here which helps. It's probably the best place to get to Brugge and Gent (and further)


country: FR
comment:
  No cars want to stop in this damned city.. And only people on motorbikes respond to hitchhikers, and when they do they crash into cars.  Or, it happened once to us.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction: Bayonne, Spain, Arcachon.
  From the center of Bordeaux, take the tramway Line B, stop at "Peixotto", then Take Bus 42 to "Ecole d'architecture". You can hitch at the bus station. The entrance is near. Most of the drivers go to the basque coast, or to Arcachon.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction: Langon, Agen, Toulouse.

  This is the national road. The highway is hard to get from Bordeaux. Take the bus 20 from the "place de la victoire" at the center. This bus goes to 3 different places, depending on the hour. Stop at "PyrÃ©nÃ©es" and walk for 20mn. If you are lucky, you can get the bus who goes to "Cadaujac le Bouscaut", the terminus is the place to hitch(but this one is rare., only 3 a day).


country: NL
comment:
  "oprit"Near Traffic lights. Main entrance to A15.
  Best place for Randstad (Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague) and good place for the south (Den Bosch, Breda, Eindhoven) as well as for the north (amersfoort, zwolle). Sign = usefull!


country: FR
comment:
  DonÂ´t get stuck in Valenciennes. No places for cars to stop. (except for a almost abandoned gastation and a narrow roundabout'


country: CZ
comment:
  Very favourite place for hitchhiking to Brno or Prostejov direction by many hitchhikers. Parking place near pub suitable during severe weather and tiny hostel. You can ask drivers at parking too. Easy to stop for trucks, dense traffic. Waiting for a lift was never longer than half an hour.


country: IT
comment:
  This is the best way to get a ride out of Milan on to the highway. Just make a carton with 'Autostrade' and you are able to get a ride on to the next gas station.
  It is difficult for cars to stop, because of the high speed allowed and many lanes. But if the traffic signal is red you have some chance.
  You can get on to the platform between the road and the special lane for better visibility.


country: IT
comment:
  This is a good gas station to get a ride into Switzerland. People here go all the way to Basel and at least through the Gotthard tunnel.


country: CH
comment:
  This is the first gas station after the Gotthard tunnel.
  Everbody here does great distances (Basel for example) and many people rest here.


country: DE
comment:
  This tankstation is OK. It is not very large but the traffic is allright and you can easily get a ride into the Ruhr-area


country: DE
comment:
  This gasstation is OK to fix a ride to Koln (still a gas station before Koln) or deeper into the Ruhr-area


country: DE
comment:
  This gasstation is not that large and that busy, but essential if you want to get any further to the Netherlands. There are also rides to the North of Germany


country: NL
comment:
  This gasstation is very large and busy and you can very easily find rides to Rotterdam, The Hague and Leiden. Even late at night it is easy here.


country: BG
comment:
  You should generally avoid getting dropped near Sevlievo because it's a straight road and cars are speeding. But there's a more suitable place a few km before the town - a road restaurant where you have better chance to hitch.


country: BG
comment:
  Not a bad spot - along this whole town in fact. Lots of traffic towards South Bulgaria or north to Veliko Turnovo and Ruse. I've been hitching here many times and never got stuck for more than 30mins


country: BG
comment:
  The beginning of Shipka mountain pass towards South Bulgaria. Lots of traffic here but not very suitable for pulling over (especially for trucks).


country: BG
comment:
  Two major trans-country roads join here and there's good traffic towards the Black Sea (Burgas, Nesebar, Sunny Beach) and to major towns in South Bulgaria (Sliven, Stara Zagora).


country: BG
comment:
  Lots of traffic towards the Black Sea and Sliven to the East. You can also head South towards Plovdiv or Turkey.


country: BG
comment:
  There's a chance you get dropped at this junction. It's the highway so you need to be very lucky to get picked up.


country: BG
comment:
  There'a gas station here and well enough space to pull over. You can reach this place with bus No.12 (get off when you see METRO shopping center - just after the big junction).
  Direction: Sofia, Plovdiv, North Bulgaria


country: BG
comment:
  Once I got stuck here for 3 hours. Mostly Romanian cars...and they don't stop. You can still try though as this is the road to Romanian Black Sea coast.


country: BG
comment:
  You can reach this place by walking or by most of the buses that pass through Nessebar. You can hitch here or walk about 1km to the main road.
  Direction: South to Burgas; North to Varna


country: BG
comment:
  This is the highway but you can still try. Just need some luck ;)
  Directions:
   - East (Plovdiv)
   - West (Sofia)


country: ES
comment:
  This is the best spot to get in any of directions of Sevilla, MÃ¡laga or Murcia. If going to further then Murcia, wait for a ride at least to Santomera, petrol station just after Murcia, if going to MÃ¡laga or Sevilla also posible to stop by the service area just after Loja. As others say, you're in Spain, be patient!!!


country: FR
comment:
  Traffic-lights, many cars go to the A1-North highway from here. I asked drivers if they go to the highway and if they can drop me off the petrol-station 200 meters further. Shouldn't be that hard if you speak some French.


country: FR
comment:
  To go to Tours and see on your left this beautiful last wild river who's named "The Loire", just appreciated the ride !
  Waiting : 1min / 25min


country: FR
comment:
  Not to bad place to go to Romoratin and take the peage for the A71, directly to the south !
  There is a large place for truck but they still to don't stop for insurance.
  Be careful a lot of cars will just stop and don't give you a ride...
  Waiting : 10min / 40 min


country: FR
comment:
  BLOIS PEAGE TO GO TO PARIS OR BORDEAUX
  No problem with the service
  Traffic : 5 cars / 1 min
  Waiting : 10 min / 1 hour


country: FR
comment:
  Vendome Direction, there is some place for stop and give you a ride, hope so !
  Traffic : 15 cars / 1 min 
  Waiting : never been there


country: FR
comment:
  To go on the A10 for Paris / Beaugency - Orleans by little roads. For Paris put on your sign : A10
  Speed : 60 km/h
  Traffic : 8 cars / 1 min
  Waiting : 10 min / 30 min


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Blois - OrlÃ©ans, Be careful, there is not so many car ...
  Traffic : 1 Car / 1min
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Waiting : 10min / 40 min


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Poitier - Bordeaux, bus station very close from here line 11 direction "Chambray II stop Ferranderie
  Traffic : 2 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 50 km/h
  Waiting : Not find any car


country: FR
comment:
  Too many cars, no area for stop...
  Traffic : 20 cars / min
  Speed : 50 km/h
  Wainting : didn't find car


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Blois, Better to get faster : cross the Loire river.
  Traffic : 8 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Waiting : 10 min / 30 min


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Amboise - Blois also. i Advice to take the bridge. see the other place just near from this one
  Traffic : 8 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Waiting : 5 min / 15 min


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Tours Centre
  It will be difficult to stop some cars to go more far away. they will stop you in the town, you're too close from Tours.
  Traffic : 8 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Waiting : never been there


country: FR
comment:
  No place for stop the car but the traffic isn't huge so it's possible
  Traffic : 4 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 45 km/h
  Waiting : 20 min / 45 min


country: FR
comment:
  Direction - Blois
  There is a parking for car stop.
  Traffic : 10 cars / 1 min
  Speed : Traffic lane / low
  Waiting : 10 min / 30 min


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Blois - Tours, maybe Poitier
  Expensive Gas Station, never been there...
  Traffic : low
  Speed : low
  Waiting : ?


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Blois, alone work better on that point, if it don't work you will have to walk about 20 min so put you in the best conditions, smile, good wear and a big sign
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Traffic : 15 cars / 1 min
  Waiting : 10 min / 1 hour


country: FR
comment:
  No place for car... Continue to walk, pass the bridge and ask to people at the traffic lane
  Traffic : 10 cars / 1 min
  Speed : too fast for a no catch them : no place for stop
  Waiting : don't wait there


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Blois - OrlÃ©ans, if there is some cars just after, continue to walk !
  Traffic : 10 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 50 km/h
  Waiting : 5 min / 15 min then walk


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Blois - OrlÃ©ans - traffic lane - Ask to drivers directly...
  Sign : Amboise
  Traffic : 10 cars / min
  Speed : low - traffic lane
  Waiting : 2 min / 15 min 


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Bourges (can work) - Paris (difficult)
  Not a Gas Station, be careful about it. You can stay there a long time

  Traffic : low
  Speed : low - gas station
  Waiting : maybe 1 hour


country: FR
comment:
  A71 Direction Paris - Tours (by A85) - Gas station - no crossing
  Traffic : high
  Speed : low
  Waiting : 10 min / 1 hour (be lucky !)


country: FR
comment:
  A71 Direction Clermont Ferrand - Montpellier (by A75) - Gas station - no crossing
  Traffic : high
  Speed : low
  Waiting : 10 min / 1 hour (be lucky !)


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Blois - Tours
  Cool little road at the door of "the Sologne" come to my home have a stop !
  Traffic : 2 cars / min
  Speed : 30 km/h
  Waiting : 10 min / 40 min


country: FR
comment:
  To go to Blois - tours, there is a lot of space, don't care about the police station near from... Just come to my home have a stop !
  Traffic : 9 cars / 1 min
  Speed : 50 km/h
  Waiting : 5 min / 30 min


country: NL
comment:
  Spot at the traffic lights. Cars can pull over, but sometimes you have to jump quick. Have a good sign with you.


country: FR
comment:
  To go to Blois - Tours by little roads and see beautiful landscape ! Just opposite of the "Epicerie" there is a large place for the cars. If you have the time, you can come see me or have a place to sleep for the night.
  Traffic : 5 Cars / 1min
  Speed : 30 km/h :)
  Waiting : 30 sec / 15 min


country: CZ
comment:
  Good place near bus stop. You can hitch in direction to Brno, Prostejov, Olomouc and Ostrava (better to use sign). There is heavy traffic, a lot of place to stop for car drivers and shelter at bus stop.


country: CZ
comment:
  From citycenter take tram 5 or 8, on station "DunajskÃ¡" change to bus 69, go to the village "Bosonohy", on station "HoÅ¡tickÃ¡" get off and go main street cca. 1 km in trace direction since the truck park. After that turn left and you'r on the petrol station.


country: CZ
comment:
  From citycenter take tram 12,13,14,20 or 54, walk trought housing estate and you will see petrol station. You will stay before petrol station - this part of road is NOT highway.


country: CZ
comment:
  From citycenter take train to station "DobÅ™any zastÃ¡vka", then continue walking along track and before highway on crossroads turn left and get the petrol station. Not long wait to Germany


country: NL
comment:
  Parking place before house, one of few places, where can car on this road stops. To Maastricht you will stay 15 minutes.


country: AT
comment:
  This is a large Parking lot (German: Parkplatz) and Circle trafficn (German: Kreisverkehr). You can hitch to Innsbruck in the west or to Kufstein in the east direction. Good luck!


country: FR
comment:
  take the bus to the stade ligne 11 300m after you will see a first traffic light it's where ppl go in and out the ring road you can start hh here or there is also a petrol station after 


country: SY
comment:
  Excellent spot for hitching into every direction of the country, especially towars Turkey and Lake Assad in the east. Easy to reach from the train station. Just hitchhike somewhere along the street.


country: SY
comment:
  Spot for hitchhiking east towards Al-Raqqah, Lake Assad, Deir ez-Zur. To catch rides within seconds, best is to walk some 100m up the road away from the locals who take the minibusses.


country: CH
comment:
  Got a ride to Bern within 2 mins there. from the trains Station Dudingen, you can walk towards the highway (15mins). Right after the roundabout, theres a pedestrian crossing which i used for hithhiking. theres no space afterwards but cars are slow, so its not dangerous. Direction of Bern is the first turn right and Lausanne is the second left. Anything could work there. 


country: TR
comment:
  if you want to go izmir-istanbul-ankara u can t find better place .) all students hitchhiking station... it s near suleyman demirel university, u can go there with bus...


country: FR
comment:
  PARIS - BORDEAUX A10 / VENDOME BY N10
  Be careful this is near from a industrial zone so a lot of car don't go very far !
  Traffic : 15 cars / 1 min
  Waiting : 15-30 min
  Speed : 30 Km/h
  Bus station : find your stop there : [http://www.filbleu.fr/telecharge/plan_semaine.pdf]


country: FR
comment:
  GAS STATION DIRECTION CHATEAUROUX... DON'T GO THERE IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE SOUTH, GO BY A10 BY BORDEAUX ! 
  Bus Station : "Grand Sud" line 11
  see your stop there : [http://www.filbleu.fr/telecharge/plan_semaine.pdf]
  Traffic : high
  Speed : low
  Waiting : 10 min / 1 Hour


country: FR
comment:
  Cars don't stop ! too much traffic ! An empty bus pick me up to Millau. It was my frist long distance to hitchhike.
  Waiting : 1 hour
  Speed : 50 km/h
  Taffic : too much !


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION MILLAU - CLERMONT-FERRAND - PARIS
  This is the best place  that I found... But be careful put on your sign place near from montpellier like LODEVE for catch the Gas Station "Aire du Caylar"
  Tram Station : Line 1 "Mosson" see here : [http://www.montpellier-agglo.com/tam/page.php?id_rubrique=34]
  Waiting : 15/30 min
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Traffic : less than 10 cars by minute


country: FR
comment:
  I have tried many times to go on the N109, but people are really affraid about stangers and it isn't personnal, One time, I've walked for 6 kilometers on that nationnal road. Don't try to get a ride from her, too much traffic !  


country: FR
comment:
  TOLL FOR THE DIRECTION : MARSEILLE / SPAIN BY A9. This is a good place in Montpellier to go to Spain or to go to Marseille, others place are really difficult, 
  Tram Station : Line 2, "St-Jean-le-Sec"
  Waiting : 20-60 min
  Speed : Peage, very low
  Traffic : High
  [http://www.montpellier-agglo.com/tam/page.php?id_rubrique=34]


country: CZ
comment:
  Pleasant place after main crossing near bus stop, train station and supermarket. Direction to south - Uherske Hradiste, Breclav, Austria... Heavy traffic, and enough place to stop for drivers. Waiting was never longer than hour. 


country: CZ
comment:
  South direction, heavy traffic, fumes and dust everywhere, wide roadside and enough place to stop, 50km/h speed limit, but I was waiting here almost 2 hours. When suddenly rain started, young women from Slovakia stopped at last. I was there only once, but everytime I tryed to keep away this place.  


country: CZ
comment:
  Average place at bus station-enough place to stop for drivers in direction Hulin-Prerov or Hulin-Otrokovice. Heavy traffic, but many gesticulating and strange local drivers. Better to use sign or to go near gas station. Waiting for a lift can be longer than 1 hour.


country: FR
comment:
  Some people said that it's working better. I will try it for the next trip. Try it before or edit it now :)


country: FR
comment:
  It is good gas station to go south or towards St Etienne. You can get here from Lyon by hitchhiking. 


country: NL
comment:
  Big service station 15 kilometers before the 'afsluitdijk', the main road to Leeuwarden/ Groningen and further to Bremen & Hamburg.


country: NL
comment:
  First petrol-station just outside of Amsterdam-north. If you're hitching from Amsterdam further north, you can get new rides from here. If you're starting in Amsterdam, you can get any ride to that goes over the A8 and get off here.


country: CZ
comment:
  From m."AndÄ›l" you take trams 4 or 7 to the stop "KotlÃ¡Å™ka". After that stop there is a traffic light and a gas station "OMV". You hitch-hike after the traffic light. 


country: FR
comment:
  GAS STATION ON THE N20 SOUTH DIRECTION A10
  Sign : Try to catch the biger toll of europe St Arnoult-en-yvelines 40 km away. 
  Waiting : 15-45 min
  Traffic : medium (a lot of car don't go very far)


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BORDEAUX NANTES TOULOUSE SPAIN BY A10
  "AIRE DE LIMOURS-JANVRY" HUGE GAS STATION
  Sign : Ask for Tours...
  Waiting : 10-40 min
  Traffic : very high


country: FR
comment:
  Good for getting on the German A5. 
  A bus stop makes it easy for drivers to stop. There is a pedestrian light with a button, to you can make cars stop for you ;)


country: FR
comment:
  good spot for Quimper and Brest you can find a ride directly

  never done it to Lorient but it's look good too 


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BORDEAUX - PARIS - SPAIN BY A10
  Maybe nice... don't know exactly. I just pass through it.
  Position : end of the roundabout
  Sign : for the south "SAINTE MAURE" or "POITIERS" to catch the gas station just before this town (20km away) or the toll (15km away)
  for the north : "PARIS"
  Waiting : never try there
  Speed : 30 Km/h
  Taffic : 15-20 Cars / min
  Place : some
  Try and teel us !


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BORDEAUX - PARIS - SPAIN BY A10
  Maybe nice... don't know exactly. I just pass through it.
  Position : in the turn because cars go more slowly. If it doesn't works, try at the roundabout just before
  Sign : for the south "SAINTE MAURE" or "POITIERS" to catch the gas station just before this town (20km away) or the toll (15km away)
  for the north : "PARIS"
  Waiting : never try there
  Speed : in the turn  40-50 Km/h
  Taffic : 15-20 Cars / min
  Place : some in the turn


country: FR
comment:
  LITTLE TOLL
  DIRECTION PARIS - BORDEAUX - SPAIN BY A10
  Sign : for the south "SAINTE MAURE" or "POITIERS" to catch the gas station just before this town (20km away) or the toll (15km away)
  for the north : "PARIS"
  I'm sure this one will be nice, someone can try it please ?


country: FR
comment:
  GAS STATION ON THE A10 DIRECTION PARIS / BORDEAUX SPAIN
  Sign : For the north  ask for "PARIS" 
  For the south : "POITIERS"
  Waiting : 10-40 minutes
  Director : No problem


country: MR
comment:
  FRONTIERE AND NO MAN'S LAND BETWEEN MAURITANIA AND MOROCCO
  You will wait a long time with your driver to pass this frontiere, so this is the place to change your plan
  Sign : ask for everywhere, I found a ride for more than 2000 km
  Waiting : 2/3 hours for all the process and the crossing of the no man's land
  Speed : very low


country: MR
comment:
  DIRECTION NOUADIBOU - MOROCCO
  Position : find the police stop at the end of the city, become friend or bring something and next ask for a ride, they will find for you
  Waiting : 5 min
  Speed : Police stop every car
  Traffic : 4 Cars / 1min


country: MA
comment:
  DIRECTION CHEFCHAOUEN N 13
  Nice place, just stop hitchhike when it's a taxi... We have to keep hitchhiking free brothers !
  Sign : "Chefchaouen"
  Waiting : 20-35 min
  Traffic : 4 cars and 2 taxi / 1 min


country: GI
comment:
  SPAIN / MOROCCO FRONTIER
  HARD CROSSING DUE TO THE CROWD
  DIRECTION TETOUAN / ALGECIRAS
  Sign : Ask direcly to drivers, a lot are dissatisfied about the frontier system and because there is too much people screaming, crying, waiting hours for visas... It's a very hard point to hitchhike. 
  Position : For the south, maybe walk a little after the taxi parking and put your sign... it will be more quiet


country: MA
comment:
  WELCOME TO MOROCCO !
  DIRECTION TETOUAN 
  I think that's the less bad place of the frontier. Just stop hitchhike when there is taxi 
  Sign : "Tetouan / no taxi, shukran (Thanks)"
  Waiting : 30-50 min
  Speed : 40-50 Km/h
  Traffic : 15 cars / min - High


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BLOIS - CHAMBORD - TOURS BY THE "SOLOGNE" REGION
  Nice place to wait your futur driver with the beautiful  Loire river
  Wait : 10-30 min
  Traffic : 2 Cars / 1 min
  Speed : 30 km/h


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BORDEAUX - SPAIN - TOULOUSE - NANTES BY A10/A11 If you're two, try to ask direclty at the traffic lane, but the better solution is too ask to the gas station before.
  Sign : There was a big matelas there with the direction OrlÃ©ans and Lyon, nice !
  Speed : Too fast
  Traffic : 10 cars / 1 min
  Waiting : nobody take us (it was the night)


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION CLERMONT-FERRAND - PARIS BY A75
  Very nice roundabout, I remember when he was work in progess it was the best place to leave Montpellier, now it will be average because not a lot of people take the highway...


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION CLERMONT-FERRAND - MONTPELLIER
  "AIRE DU CAYLAR" TOTAL GAS STATION
  two way direction, so a lot of possibilities there...
  Waiting : 10-30 min
  Traffic : 3 cars 1 truck / 1 min
  Speed : very low


country: PL
comment:
  That is the best spot to hitch south, towards Bystrzyca and border crossing in Boboszow. Further you can go easily to Brno.


country: PL
comment:
  Hitching South is really good from here. If you stand with sign, you can easily get to Czech Republic. Just mind that you have to be visible - walk a bit down the road where are no trees hiding you ;)


country: IT
comment:
  There is a gas station where you can ask, but most people stay locally.  Cars go too fast to stop on the roundabout.  Guaka and Erga tried getting 7 km east for two hours, without success.


country: DE
comment:
  Gas Station on both sides of the autobahn.

  Take city bus no 10 towards Schalding rechts der Donau from the city center. Get off underneath the autobahn bridge (can't miss it) and walk up to the gas station via the service road underneath the highway bridge. 


country: SE
comment:
  To Oland. It only took me 5 to 10 mins and i was using this spot several times. Use a sign. You can walk there to the bus stop Ango or catch a bus. Its within walking distance from the city and quite much traffic, no trucks though.


country: SE
comment:
  To Stockholm. I got a ride directly to Stockholm there, but had to wait for an hour. Theres no really good spot as all traffic is coming from Oland on number 137 and turning right there. No busstops or anything, just plain motorway. Ask somebody to bring you to IKEA or RASTA )or use a bus),  which is on the other side of the highway, then walk across it, dont worry theres a bridge and you can walk. I then put myself between the 2 roads, one lane heading south and one turning right heading north. Not the safest place, but theres no other before on 137. use a very big sign


country: SE
comment:
  To KALMAR. Pretty good, just stand at the bus station but with a sign, otherwise people will not know where you are going! )Street leads to the north of the island and highway) You could also stand closer to the highway, near Traffpunkt Oland, but there is no space to stand after the roundabout


country: IE
comment:
  This is just beyond the traffic lights at Galway Crystal and Bodkin's Bar. Bus 4E (Mon - Sat) and bus 9 (every day) will bring you here. Ask the driver to stop at Galway Crystal (on the 9) or at the gate of Merlin Park Hospital (on the 4E). For all points East (towards Dublin) and South (towards Limerick and Cork).


country: IE
comment:
  N4 (M4 -> N6 and N4) to Galway, Sligo, Westport, Ballina, Longford, Athlone, Mullingar. Stand a few metres in front of the bus stop. Any 25, 66 or 67 from Pearse Street (opposite the police station).


country: IE
comment:
  Stand a little further than the end of the bridge, where there's a hard shoulder. To Ennis, Limerick and all points north.


country: IE
comment:
  Stand just beyond the entrance to the Westwood Hotel. Walk here from town, or get the 4W bus, and ask to be dropped off on the Thomas Hynes Rd. From there, walk N. to the Westwood Hotel. For Clifden, Oughterard, north and west Connemara, and the scenic route to Co. Mayo.


country: IE
comment:
  Just beyond the bridge, there is a wide lay-by and car park. Lots of stopping room. Many people stop here for a break, so you may even be offered a lift.


country: IE
comment:
  Stand at the brow of the hill on the way out of the village, where a road turns off to the left, or at the bottom of the hill by the car park. Any further out and they cars will be going far too fast. Almost everyone here will be driving to Galway.


country: IE
comment:
  To Limerick and Dublin. After the roundabout after Adare Manor. Good space for a car to stop and pull in. If you need to be let out at Adare on your way from Kerry to Limerick, this is the best spot.


country: IE
comment:
  Outside Moran's petrol station. Great spot as cars are still going slowly. For Tralee and everywhere else beyond.


country: FR
comment:
  best spot in direction rennes. in case of rain you can stand directly under the bridge. BUT: the police might say that the spot is already on the highway, so be careful.


country: FR
comment:
  average in direction angers/le mans/tours. enough space for the cars to stop, not much traffic. if you just go to angers i would suggest to take the national road next to the spot. 


country: FR
comment:
  . hithhiking spot in direction nantes. enough space, but not much traffic in direction nantes because part of the highway is for free so drivers will take the highway-entrance in tours


country: FR
comment:
  good spot, but if you want to take the highway to angers/nantes, i would suggest to take another spot


country: FR
comment:
  famous hitchhikingspot in direction south. often crowded. easy to reach by metro. make a sign with "peage" or "orleans". 


country: FR
comment:
  its a peage/toll station. not much cars, but enough to get a ride fast. it worked good in direction tours.


country: FR
comment:
  direction rennes. enough space for cars,  a lot of cars. surprisingly nobody stopped for 30min. i think most cars are going in an other direction. i would suggest to try another spot.


country: FR
comment:
  excellent spot in direction nantes. a lot of cars, but not much space for the cars to hold. excellent anyway.


country: NL
comment:
  not so good in direction heerlen/aachen because everybody whos going there drives on the left side of the road and cannot stop. but i think there is no alternative-spot, so try it.


country: FR
comment:
  take the RER to "La Courneuve Aubervilliers". apx. 2km walk from there. to get to the gastation you have to climb over a 2m-fence/wall (where the mark is). the fence is on a little hill. not so hard like everybody says, actually pretty easy.


country: FR
comment:
  Not a good one, but it's the beginnning of the high-way. Be careful of the people who stopped.
  Good to go to the est (Strasbourg, Germany, ...)


country: HU
comment:
  got a ride immediately to reach Szigliget after having got off at the nearby train station (not many buses connecting the station to the village).
  Direction: Szigliget 


country: DE
comment:
  RaststÃ¤tte Aurach SÃ¼d

  (experience on a Friday night)

  EAST: 
  the perfect place to hitchhike to Romania or the Czech Republic (about 2/3 going that way)

  SOUTH:
  Munich is also good (about 1/4 of all cars going that way)

  NORTH:
  not a good place (2 cars in 3 hours)


country: DE
comment:
  Busstop of Line 1 (towards Eningen)

  Good place to stop towards the "SchwÃ¤bische Alb", Riedlingen, Sigmaringen. 
  You should never have to stand longer than 30 minutes.


country: DE
comment:
  Gasstation

  Probably the best place in Ulm to get on the A8 towards Stuttgart, bad if you need to get to MÃ¼nchen though. 

  Forget it if you need to get to the A7, try to get to the gasstation in Neu Ulm instead.


country: AT
comment:
  From citycenter go to the Florisdorf district. There take tram to the end of street BrÃ¼nner Strasse. Don't try to hitchhike in the city - everywhere are symbols to disable stop. Go on the end of the city and find the spot - you can stay everywhere


country: NL
comment:
  Your entry onto the A44. This gasstation is used more for going north. If you want to go south, go stand on the other side of the A44. On that side there isn't such a nice place for cars to stop, but you've just eliminated half of the traffic going up towards A'dam.


country: RO
comment:
  Pretty good place, not so many people hitchiking. Stay here if you want to go to the North (Sighisoara, Targu Mures, Cluj - Napoca)


country: RO
comment:
  A bit crowded place, but efficient to go to Sfantu Gheoghe, Miercurea Ciuc or Moldavia through Bacau (East)


country: TR
comment:
  Just some meters behind the roundabout there's enough space to stop cars direction Reyhanli and Syria.


country: FR
comment:
  hard to reach, took us like 15 minutes by foot from the bus-station.we hitched on a sunday, so not that many people came by heading north!but i'm sure it works better on weekdays!can't recommend it, better to take another spot for direction Paris


country: DE
comment:
  not the best spot, but still, there are people heading to LÃ¼beck and Hamburg, most of them try to avoid city-traffic, for me it was twice a good alternative to the IKEA spot further down!


country: CH
comment:
  there is a small gas-station and a bus-stop, so you can either ask people or hold out your thumb...try to get to the next bigger gasstation on the way to Geneve and there shouldn't be anymore difficulties


country: FR
comment:
  just ask people on the traffic light if they drive out of town, if you don't wanna waste time taking a bus outside of town!worked pretty good at this spot here, so would be interesting if you give it a try


country: FI
comment:
  kiertoliittymÃ¤n jÃ¤lkeinen bussipysÃ¤kki. hyvÃ¤ paikka liftata etelÃ¤Ã¤n (jyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, helsinki) paljon tilaa pysÃ¤htyÃ¤ myÃ¶s rekoille.


country: DE
comment:
  get to this place by hitchhiking out of freiburg beginning at "basler landstrasse", let them drop you off right here. have a sign and wait next to the parking. perfect spot to go south and north.


country: NL
comment:
  Amersfoort, (Utrecht, Amsterdam), Almelo (Enschede, Germany)Deventerweg, fuel station (BP). Bus 56 & 81 stop 'Zweedsestraat'


country: NL
comment:
  Hoogeveen, (Zwolle, Deventer) Haarweg carpool, Little piece of hard schoulder just after the carpool lot entrance.  Managed to get a car in 2 min from this spot (Maybe a lucky one:P).


country: NL
comment:
  (Arnhem, Utrecht) A28 access lane 18 Zwolle Zuid. Dangerous: no shoulder available, cars driving by too fast. In peak hours, the carpool spot nearby may be useful.


country: IE
comment:
  -> Galway city. Good place to stand if you are going into Galway city, rather than on the dual carriageway, if you get a lift as far as Oranmore.


country: FR
comment:
  Waited here for about 1.5 houres, trying to reach Omaha beach. We came from Caen.
  Lots of tourists from GB and NL, but they don't like hitch hikers!


country: DE
comment:
  To MÃ¼nster (Rheine). B54 Access lane/K73. Very little traffic. Stood here for 1h before walking to a nearby train station. 


country: PL
comment:
  There's a bus stop here, right after an intersection, so the drivers that wait at red can see you clearly, and they don'tt speed since they start driving after the green light kicks in. Cars heading for Warsaw and Radom have to pass through this point. The volume of traffic is high during weekends. Approx time of waiting: 5 sec to 1h.
  Btw. I've added nearly the same marker as anonymous, but in the wrong spot.


country: NL
comment:
  To 's Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Eindhoven. A58 Access Lane 11. Hard shoulder on sliproad. Cars driving by fast, but always a lot of traffic.


country: LU
comment:
  A pretty long walk out of town (~4 km, can *partly* use Bus 7) Used several times. It is possible to get a direct ride to Brussels.

  About 10km from this place there is a big petrol station, 'Aire de Capellen', you might want to get a sign to get there!


country: DE
comment:
  Great spot for hitchhiking towards Dreierwalde. Traffic lights in front of you, enough space to stop. Hard to get here from Rheine city, quite far out and dangerous to walk along the street. But if somebody only goes to the highway or Altenrheine, get out here, spot is directly at "Hotel Borchert". Ask people for this hotel if you want to go here.


country: PL
comment:
  take the trams going south from the trainstation, go to the end of it. you have to cross after the railways, either down the underground or on the bridge. good to hitchhike to the south, to Wroclaw or further and also for the entrance of the highway, either west (berlin) or east (warszawa). there is a gas station there (the second after it was kind of blocked when i was there, there was some construction on the road)


country: CZ
comment:
  small gas station, you can get there by some bus that goes to Globus (thats the name of the stop). in direction to the west from Ãšsti, to Karlovy Vary for example


country: DE
comment:
  Hitched from here 2 times up North. Key is to walk a bit onto the entry. Car or truck will pick you up within 15 min. =)!


country: DE
comment:
  Depending on which way you need to go either horrible or fantastic. South is perfect, west is not --> Try the gasstation 27 km away. Just after the cross with the A5.


country: CL
comment:
  The micros to Puerto Montt can take you here for 300 CLP. Just tell the driver to drop you at the entrance to Ruta 5.


country: DE
comment:
  Very good spot with low traffic though. Good for Northwest, or to get the the (hard to reach on foot) gas station a bit downstream.


country: ES
comment:
  better do not try to hitchhike here to direction Bilbao/San Sebastian...drivers telling you the return into the city center...maybe in the morning at 6-8am when people are on business trips, otherwise: no


country: GB
comment:
  Lay-by is about 300 m after the roundabout -  use the 800 Park+Ride bus to get close and walk for 20 mins. 


country: GB
comment:
  There is a busstop just after the street turned into a "highway". First thereÂ´s a parking spot and right after that the busstop. Easy to thumb a ride towards Inverness and generally north of Scotland!Take bus  27 to get there. 17 and 21 get you close to it!


country: CH
comment:
  Take tram 5 to Ostring. Car's can't see you from far away, but there's enough place to stop. The bridge protects you from rain.


country: CH
comment:
  Direction ZÃ¼rich, Basel, Biel. Take tram 5 to Ostring. There's enough space for cars to stop, but they can't see you from far away. The bridge protects you from rain.


country: DE
comment:
  Pretty good spot to go on the A8. Took me (1 male) about 45 minutes to get a ride from here towards Munich. You can get here by taking the Ubahn to stop Neckartor and then walking for about 2 minutes. There's a nice parking lot in the curve there. 


country: DE
comment:
  This is a pretty good spot on Loffelstrasse to get to the A8. I got a ride here in about 30 minutes (1 male). It's normally a bus stop and it's really easy for people to stop. There are a lot of cars that pass through here. I'm not sure how to get here by public transport because I got a ride here from the Neckartor spot.  


country: FR
comment:
  This is the best spot to hitch  rides to Paris. You may want to aim for the direct ride to Paris and have a "Paris" sign but you can also play it safe and have an "Aire de Phallampin" sign which is the first gas station on the A1 going to Paris. [User:Garthelgard|Garthelgard]] has hitchhiked from this spot more than twenty times and has never waited more than 30 minutes.


country: DE
comment:
  good to hitchhike to the south (Munich) or north (Berlin) via A9 or to the west (Magdeburg, Hannover, Braunschweig) or east (Dresden) via A14. Just ask people at the Aral-gas station or at McDonald's. There is a train station of the S10 which goes from Halle to Leipzig and back every half an hour (exit Schkeuditz West)


country: DE
comment:
  Great spot for hitching towards SchÃ¼ttdorf or the A31: Enough space to stop cars (if grass it not too high), traffic lights in front of you.


country: BG
comment:
  Much depends. Lots of traffic going West, not so much South, a lot North. Waiting time anywhere between 10 minutes and 2 hours.


country: BG
comment:
  Go here and ask a truck driver to get you across. The Bulgarian customs officers won't let you cross the bridge on foot, even if, from the Romanian side people are crossing on foot of by bicycle.


country: FR
comment:
  Right here you can ask the people for taking you to the peage/gas station just like 5 - 10 km farther the A48, better than waiting with a sign.


country: FR
comment:
  That's another good spot for asking people at traffic light while waiting for green and gettin on highway A41. Even good possibilities for pulling over and getting in, if you're alone directly while waiting ;-) Just like 15 meters farther north another traffic light with the people coming from Carrefour!!! Next ags station is about a 10 km.


country: AT
comment:
  we waited over 4 hours watching alot of local traffic pass us, eventually a polish courier delivering farm tractor parts picked us up and dropped us in linz, austria.


country: DE
comment:
  we got dropped at a petrol station here and tried to hitch to innsbruck for a few hours, with no luck. If you plan to go south from here you are much better to get a ride up to the next station, about 15kms, which gets all the traffic from germany going south.. from there it was easy.


country: DE
comment:
  there is a massive petrol station here, with a mcdonalds also, where it was very easy to get a lift south, to innsbruk, austria (& prob. also easy to go east to austria (wien, linz) also.


country: DK
comment:
  Hop the Metro to Kastrup, exit to the right walk 500m, turn right, pass SAS building, turn right once more at intersection then you will see the entrance.


country: DE
comment:
  If you want to go to Nienburg or Verden it`s good to start from this place. ItÂ´s easy to hitchhike from this place.


country: TR
comment:
  You should take a  metro to Bornova station, Ege University Clinic. A lot of students hitch hicke to Marmaris, good spot for Istanbul and Ankara as well. Take not more then 5 to 10 min to take a lift.


country: IR
comment:
  A good position in the direction to Tehran. You can take a taxi to the bus terminal and from there you can walk to the high way. You can stay there with a sign. Look for trucks with TEH on it. They are coming from Europe and are oftenly good lifts.


country: FR
comment:
  Just before the entrance to the ring road (direct to the highway), stand between the 2 traffic lights and smile!


country: DE
comment:
  Just hitchhike along the street here, enough space to stop cars. Traffic goes north towards Detmold.


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot for traffic towards the A2 and Bielefeld. Don't wait up on the bridge, no place for cars to stop. Down there it is a bit easier for cars to stop, some might be quite fast but chances are higher.


country: DE
comment:
  Perfect ramp for hitchhiking from Bielefeld down to Dortmund,  Ruhr Area, Cologne. Just behind the ramp there's an exit of some factory, so enough space for you to stop cars. These are driving slowly and can see you early enough. Perfect!


country: DE
comment:
  Great spot for hitching towards Halle (Westfalen) and OsnabrÃ¼ck / A33. Much traffic is driving slowly here, going out of town. Enough space for cars to stop along the hard shoulder. Easy to reach from Brackwede Station, some meters down the road.


country: DE
comment:
  Some space behind the traffic light for hitching a ride towards the A33 (OsnabrÃ¼ck) or Borgholzhausen.Spot is okay and enough traffic passing by.


country: FR
comment:
  spent 3 hours trying to hitch thru tunnel to france, with no luck. give up and spend 7euro on the bus, much better luck on otherside. (did see petrol station under construction on autostrade, maybee in future this may help)


country: FR
comment:
  locals advised we would have hard time hitching from this town, but after 1/2 hour we got lift to much better place about 20kms up road, en route to Lyon.


country: IT
comment:
  waited a few hours with zero percent luck.. suggest you catch a bus to a bigger town. six euros to brescia


country: PL
comment:
  Towards Berlin. I am not saying that this place has good hitchability, but comparing to all other places I have seen in Poznan, it seems the least sensless.


country: DE
comment:
  Excellent spot for hitching towards Neuenkirchen, Ochtrup, Gronau. Just walk along the Neuenkirchener Strasse until you reach the JET gas station, then some meters further you'll see the traffic lights. Just behind, there's a bus bay with enough space.


country: DE
comment:
  Along the Eilersweg there's enough space to stop cars, thanks to the bicycle lane. Good for rides  towards Ochtrup, Gronau or Salzbergen


country: AT
comment:
  one side service station but for both directions, low traffic, for a highway service station not optimal


country: RS
comment:
  waited 2,5 hours with a zagreb sign, better try hitchhiking without sign here. highway to zagreb is only low frequented but better chance to get to novi sad


country: DE
comment:
  It is sensless spot to hitch towards Netherlands. If it ever happens to you, follow A1 north to the first gas station after Osnabruck and change dirsction there.


country: DE
comment:
  Sensless towards Netherlands. Better cross the road  and go one station further towards Osnabruck. There will be right traffic going on to get to Holland.


country: NL
comment:
  Germany. A1 access lane 33. Bus 60/62 stop Hanzepoort, 400 m N Enschedesestraat. 	Hard shoulder on sliproad.


country: EE
comment:
  Direction Tartu. Bus-stop with stopping space on main road going to Tartu. Walkable distance from the centre of town.


country: CZ
comment:
  This is the last gas station when heading out of town. Shuold be good for hitchiking, but we have passed it and only went by the road (62 direction - Prague)showing that we are hitchiking. A young man who works in Prague gave a lift for me and my friend. 


country: SI
comment:
  This service area is on the Ring around Ljubljana. To get there take bus number 1 or 1B in direction Mestni Log from the center. Go off one station before, last, called Koprska. Continue straight on the street Cesta v mestni log, after 2 minutes you will cross a bridge over a small river. Continue straight and cross the highway over the bridge, and on the other side go down the hill into the highway itself, turn right and walk for 5 minutes till you get to the resting area. 


country: HU
comment:
  A small petrol station on the road before the M5 starts. The M5 goes south towards Szeged and Serbia. Take Metro 3 to Ecseri Ãºt stop. Walk down Ecseri Ãºt street for about 800m until you see the busy road. On your right is the petrol station hidden behind a wall. You can reach it by crossing the road and walking behind the buildings on the other side untill theres a green area which can be crossed easily. Bus 281 will save you the 800m walk but is only once every hour from Nepliget stop on the metro (one stop before).


country: CZ
comment:
  A petrol station on the motorway south to Bratislava. Take the free Avion shopping centre bus from behind Tescos. There are two big shopping centres near to each other and both have free buses leaving regularly behind Tescos. DO NOT get on the Olympia bus. Take the Avion bus. When you arrive at the shopping centre you will see the OMV petrol station nearby on the same side of the motorway.


country: IE
comment:
  To get to Lahinch or Corofin stand just after the roundabout. Lots of people hitch here and its a well known spot.


country: GR
comment:
  i tried hitching north out of athens directly on the E75. didnt work. eventually a guy on a moped picked me up and took me a few km farther where i got on a coach. i got off during a rest and didnt pay.


country: IE
comment:
  When taking a ferry to France you have 23 hours to talk to everyone on board and get a lift all the way to your final destination.


country: SI
comment:
  a bus station towards Ljubljana, quite ok to hh if you hold a sign, average waiting time around 1 hour.


country: SI
comment:
  A good spot towards Graz, Murska Sobota and Hungary direction. It would be better to hh in the traffic circle a few km north, but unfortunatly it's not. Best to hold a sign here.


country: DE
comment:
  Bus bay directly next to the train station, good to hitch towards Bad Bentheim, enough space for cars to stop. Sign might be useful, traffic also could be also going only some meters.


country: BE
comment:
  This is most of the time my startingpoint if I go for long distances. You can go anywhere here (starting with direction 'Gent', 'Torhout' or some place near the sea). People see you from a distance and have some space to pull over.


country: BE
comment:
  Great spot if you want to go out of Bruges. Just put up a sign that says '4km' and ask if they go to 'Oostkamp', and if they could drop you off near the highway (E40). Even by night it's great!


country: BE
comment:
  Good place it you want to go to 'Brugge' or 'Sluis'.
  Most chance of getting a ride is when the traffic lights are turned red because there isn't much place to pull over.


country: SE
comment:
  Ok this is not the best advice. though hopefully you can derriive some infomation from it; from the city take tram 4 MÃ¶lndal direction
  I took it to MÃ¶lndal sjukhus
  because thats where i was staying at the time; anyways when u get out the highway will be across the road with some fences inbetween; u should just keep walking in the direction of the tram; pasrt the station after you should be able to get to the side of the higway further along should be on and off ramp with a round about, i stood here for 20 mins untill some nice swedish mum in a volvo took me further along, to another intersection and from their i got a ride to  MalmÃ¶ port and hitch hiked to Hamburg that same day: sorry i cant be more exact but when you do get some one to stop  for you in sweden just plead with them to take you to best place they know for you otherwise sweden is a bit difficult: goodluck folk


country: SE
comment:
  The McDonalds/Statoil may be good for asking rides, but waiting in the very large pull-out lane before the entrance with a sign did me no good.  All the traffic was speeding by, or the ones who did stop are NOT going to Stockholm.  It might be better to go to Lund and start again if your in it for the long-haul.  ill try again and post another one.


country: DE
comment:
  Gas Station Eichelborn: perfect spot for either going to Dresden (east) or Frankfurt (west), never waited longer than 30 mins


country: DE
comment:
  The spot is easy tro reach by tram - however just few people seem to go far, so having a sign saying 'Gera' (east) or 'Erfurt' (west) does the job (there are gas stations on the way both direction)


country: DE
comment:
  Gas Station 'Wetterau' - perfect for direction east (on A4), e.g. fridays you'll have a lift to poland within 10 mins 


country: SK
comment:
  Good one for direction Martin, if going there, it's definitelly better to get dropped here, than Kralovany - here is plenty of space, and quite a lot of cars passing in direction MT.


country: GB
comment:
  Take the 39 or 40 bus from Newcastle city centre to Dumpling Hall Estate, and get off at the roundabout. Walk down the sliproad to the main road. The sliproad is very long so cars already on the A69 will be able to stop.


country: ES
comment:
  well we started here at this gas station wich is across from some statue that is supposed to represent the sun and the pyrnee, on a round about

  after some  ramblings with ppl in spanish with not much proper communication, long story short we spent all day walking to some big thing called the Plaza some big shopping complex, they are still building the roads up there just walk in the direction mardid along side the highway there is plenty of feild and safe ways to walk its about 1300 hundred mtr walk, we got a ride with a post courrier who drove average 170 al the way so it was pretty efficient; good luck ps the staff at the repsol where quite nice so smile


country: FR
comment:
  Direction blois OrlÃ©ans
  Speed : 20 km/h
  Traffic : 10 cars / 1 min
  Waiting : less than 1 min / 15 min


country: ES
comment:
  Ok just find the Peage toll road gate

  i had a small sign saying paris i got to paris from here. afte 20 mins best ride i got in spain.

  so find the peage good luck


country: DE
comment:
  Great spot just behind the traffic lights, near the McDonalds restaurant. Big hard shoulder with enough space to stop cars. Good for hitching towards Muenster en Telgte.


country: DE
comment:
  Here is the last gas station before the highway A57, northern direction. par example Duesseldorf or Essen


country: DE
comment:
  ItÂ´s quit a good area to get away...sundern and all points of the sauerland. the people are not as ,,narrow-mindedÂ´Â´ as you probably appraise...


country: DE
comment:
  itÂ´s quit a good area to get away! the people are not as ,,narrow-mindedÂ´Â´ as you probably appraise....good luck!


country: DE
comment:
  Service station south of Hermsdorf on the A9 (northbound). Senseless if you want to go westward (Erfurt, A4), bad if you want to go to Berlin.


country: AU
comment:
  I've hitched north from here many times. Not a bad spot, not great. Better to start from Bridgewater if you can get there conveniently.


country: AU
comment:
  I've hitched east from here or nearby several times over the years.A local bus to Cambridge Road near Warrane and a short walk to get here. It's not great but has shoulder and all the Hobart-East traffic on it.


country: DE
comment:
  Here you find a gas station and traffic lights. Just before the lights is some space to stand on and stopping cars. Another option is to ask people at the pump.Might be easy to get rides towards Bielefeld and Versmold, but difficult to get rides toward the highway, very small ramp, fast traffic, much trucks.


country: NO
comment:
  In winter I waited there for couple of hours before I got a ride, in a typical winter darkness. I would guess in summer time it is easier, with tourists roaming around. /Sigurdas


country: NO
comment:
  Didn't wait too long, despite winter darkness. No tourists in winter, just locals going to the villages a bit further up. Rides to Nordkapp are not because of closed roads further to the north. /Sigurdas


country: NO
comment:
  I like the roads there. In winter there were almost no cars, nonetheless, the first or the second passing by stopped without me having even risen a hand (I was slowly walking to the South). /Sigurdas


country: FR
comment:
  excellent, but you need to find somebody to drive you to the bridge called "pont de normandie". The best way to go to Caen


country: ES
comment:
  At the airport. Simply ask the people who rent a car. Its outside the exit. Most people go to the south, but north is also possible. I was lucky enough to find somebody within about 50 mins


country: ES
comment:
  The exact place is Monumento al Campesino. Any direction of the island is possible. There is a gas station also. Very windy place, put on warm clothes and simply ask the people at the gas station (mostly locals) or stand next to the road. I got a lift to Arecife within 30 mins


country: ES
comment:
  Catch Bus 03 from Puerto Carmen to Arecife. It only costs 1,5 Euros. Get off at the bus stop (you will realiye it immediately as there is a street that is leading right next to the highway and going on the highway there. I got a lift to the city within 5 mins and a lift to the north of the island (!!) within 20 mins. That was at around 11am


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : ORLEANS - PARIS by NATIONNAL
  There is a little street who go down near from the bridge, it's strange but she work very well when you are in the middle of the street 
  Waiting : 1-30min
  Traffic : 5 cars /  1 min


country: TR
comment:
  Good spot for hitchhiking towards Adana. Hitch along the street or ask people at the petrol station. Enough space to stop.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Paris Laval Le Mans 
  Waiting : 1 hour (in the night)
  Traffic : 1 car / 2 min (night)
  Spedd : 40/50 km/h too fast ... 


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Laval Le Mans Paris
  This is a very very good toll fine and large in the same time, quiet bit easy to get a ride here
  Waiting : 5 / 10 minutes on the parking
  Traffic : 20 cars / min
  Speed : 30/40 km/h


country: FR
comment:
  Gas Station A81
  Direction Rennes - Paris
  Solution : ask for the toll 2 km after !
  Traffic : all cars go to the toll - trucks too...


country: FR
comment:
  Direction La mans Laval Paris by night
  Traffic : 1 cars / 15 minutes (night)
  Waiting : no way, continu to walk (night)
  Speed : Taffic lane 10/20 km/h


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Rennes - Paris A81
  I've just pass but be careful this is not a roundabount, I think it's not possible to get a ride here... Tell me !


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION SPAIN / A9 
  Malte is right. One day I pick up two hitchhikers here, they had just plan to leave from that bad spot, I bring them to the toll of St Jean de Vedas, a better place.


country: ES
comment:
  Es muy facil moverse a dedo por la isla durante el verano. Si bien es cierto que llegar a las playas mÃ¡s alejadas requiere buenos paseos, recorrer la carretera que cruza la isla, de MaÃ³ a Ciutadella, es harto sencillo. Todas las veces que he necesitado transporte no he esperado mÃ¡s de 7 u 8 minutos. Tanto menorquines como espaÃ±oles que viajan en furgo estan muy dispuestos a llevarte.


country: NL
comment:
  Fuel station Kloosters. Direction Venlo/Heerlen/Maastricht. In the evening 6pm not much traffic. Owner doesnt want you to stand in front of the shop.


country: DE
comment:
  A crossing with a bay, maybe good for hitching towards Oldenzaal (NL). It's just 300m south of the train station.


country: FR
comment:
  Many trucks pass here towards Barca and Girona, but especially in the morning, because they are resting here during the night. In the evening you should rather go to the gas station next to the hotel, a bit towards the north!


country: FR
comment:
  Quite ok, for asking people which leave the hotel or the gas station herre towards girona or Barcelona!


country: LV
comment:
  To Jurmala, Liepaja, Ventspils. It is still possible to hhike here, but the speed of cars is very big. You can get here by foot somehow


country: DE
comment:
  Heres a parking lot where many cars stop and the street right after the traffic lights has a service lane where people can stop after they go to the highway!


country: FR
comment:
  To reach this gas station:

  Take the Tramway A, to "GraviÃ¨res".  Follow the street Rue des GraviÃ¨res, Rue FranÃ§ois Villon. At the crossroads, tkae Avenue de Paris. There is a small road parallel at this street, take it (rue Jean Raymond Guyon). It ends to a roundabout but here is a small old pedestrian road. Take it. Cross the bridge that crosses the highway. From it, you can see the Gas station. The fences are broken so you can walk easily to it.

  Ask for going to the next gas station, just before "Saint AndrÃ© de Cubzac" if nobody takes the A10. At the next petrol station, there is a restaurant, so a lot more people.

  I've never waited to long. 


country: FR
comment:
  This is the best spot to Paris!

  This is the last gas station before the toll. With restaurant and a large gas station.

  I usually ask for there from Bordeaux when drivers don't use the A10. 


country: DE
comment:
  great spot for hitching west (Chemnitz, Leipzig Erfurt, Jena)... just show a sign saying C,L, EF, J, etc...


country: DE
comment:
  heading east (Dresden): spot is close to final station of line 15, but just few cars actually go for Dresden (have a sign, average of 45 mins so far)


country: US
comment:
  Although technically 'illegal' in Utah, HHing from Cache Valley to Salt Lake City is super easy.  Just make sure you keep walking so you don't break the law!  I've had mormon families pick me up, couples, and the sad lonely old man.


country: FR
comment:
  Peage in the east of city. Fantastic. Also big restaurant/service station not too far away. Check out hitchwiki entry.


country: FR
comment:
  There is a big service station for many vehicles going North-West to Paris and South-East to Lyon. It is not good for traffic goin East to Metz, etc. 


country: ES
comment:
  Here you can find a couple of gas stations that people use before going to: Pamplona, Bilbao, San SebastiÃ¡n or even France.


country: US
comment:
  wait here a while and you are bound to get a ride sometime and it is next to a wal-mart so you can get food and drink and supplies becarefull the cops here are a bit touchy


country: ES
comment:
  This place you can use if you want to go north (Madrid, AndÃºjar). Its not a good place to stand, so you better search a bit for another one, and only use this if you dont find anything else. Posted the 13th January 2009


country: DE
comment:
  Kleiner Rastplatz: Am Entenfang 
  Toiletten, Polizei, Telefonzelle

  Autobahnpolizei stÃ¶rt sich nicht an Trampern

  GegenÃ¼ber Rastplatz Stockweg, weniger benutzt

  ca. 45min FuÃŸweg von S-Bahn GroÃŸenbaum, lohnt sich aber fast immer. (Oder Fahrrad am Waldrand anketten)


country: DE
comment:
  Rastplatz Ohligser Heide

  Seit Jahren mein Startrastplatz Richtung Frankfurt

  Nie lÃ¤nger als 20Min gewartet(m)


country: FR
comment:
  for direction paris rouen lille
  u can take a bus to the "centre commercial" and walk 1 km to the service station :)
  nusti


country: CZ
comment:
  From railroad station take tram 8 or 10 and go to the station "OsovÃ¡" (from other places you can take other trams, which came to this station). There change for bus number 401 or 402 and go to the station "PopÅ¯vky - Vintrovna". Don't worry that you'r out of the city. When you get off from the bus, go cca. 500m in the bus direction and you will see the petrol station.


country: CH
comment:
  For hitching EASTBOUND (St. GALLEN, AUSTRIA) I hitched on sunday noon, lots of traffic still though. result will most likely be better on other days and hours
  cars who connect to the highway come out of the tunnel and use the next tunnel right away. stand almost on the street with a BIG sign. How to get there: Tram or bus to BUCHEGGPLATZ and walk 2 mins, across the road and to the left. just follow the sings for the cars. the street name is Bucheggstrasse, stand at height of crossing with Guggachstrasse 
  I got a lift after about 30 mins, considering the time and day it was not too bad. 


country: CH
comment:
  For hitching EASTBOUND (Winterthur, St. Gallen/Austria) I have never tried myself yet, but will do so soon. I know you can sort of walk onto the lead of the highway but theres no space for the cars to stop. all traffic that comes from the east, needs to get through town, following E41. But they usually use the tunnel. So maybe you only try this point in case the other one at Bucheggstrasse does not work. Catch a tram to Milchbuck (7, 9, 10, 14) and then follow the road to "oerlikon", you will see the signs for the cars pointing out Highway and Wintertur/St.gallen


country: CH
comment:
  Direction CHUR, SARGANS according to a friend, but i have never tried it myself and cannot tell you the exact point where to stand. You should ride there before and check, But this street leads to the highway (via Manessestrasse) 


country: FI
comment:
  Tried to hitchhike with Viking Line car passengers, offering them to pay the difference to take us with them in their car, which is still cheaper than the cheapest ticket. It was the darker time of the year and the people where unfriendly and suspicious. Furthermore, there were only a few cars (morning departure). 


country: JP
comment:
  I waited in Tosu interchange, and looked for a right car for cc. 1 hour. Finally a family looked me, and invited me to their car. 


country: HU
comment:
  Here is a good place in the curve. Here can stop the car which goes to Keszthely or HÃ©vÃ­z. Because the curve is dangerous the cars must go slowly. Here is relatively heavy traffic. I'm hitchhiked 2 times, and the pickup everytime was cc.5 minutes.


country: HU
comment:
  Front of the Kakasdi fatemplom(Kakasd wooden church) is there a busstop, where I got most quickest pickup of my life. The first car stoped. 3 second!!!


country: AR
comment:
  Have a spots of trucks that will go to Chile or Brazil. In the Street Ridrigez PeÃ±a have a Petrol station that have a lot brazilians drivers.


country: AR
comment:
  Peaje apenas pasando CaÃ±uelas, sobre RN3. Excelente para viajar haciar el sur. Para llegar desde BsAs. tomar el 88 en Plaza Once que va a San Miguel del Monte y pedir bajar en el peaje de CaÃ±uelas.


country: AR
comment:
  Control de cargas policial en GÃ¼er Aike. TODOS los camiones que van en ambas direcciones deben parar, es excelente! Pedirle a la policÃ­a que te consiga viaje.


country: DK
comment:
  Good if you want to go south to RÃ¶dby. Take a train to Ny Ellebjerg st. and head southwest to the junction. There you can stand just after a busstop.
  Waiting time: 30-60 minutes.


country: DK
comment:
  Good if you want to ride with truckers southward. Take a train to Ny Ellebjerg st. and head southwest to the junction. Be there at about 5 in the morning. Waiting time: unknown


country: DE
comment:
  Petrol station with a lot of drivers heading west. I was there late evening on a wednesday and did'nt have any luck.


country: DE
comment:
  Petrol station with a lot of trafic going through. If going west to Saarbrucken, Metz, Paris then first hitch a west ride to the next service area (Pfalz). Waiting time: 30 min.


country: DE
comment:
  Service area with a lot of trafic going through in both directions. Perfect when hitching to Saarbrucken, Metz, Paris and in the other dir. Mannheim, Frankfurt AM. Waiting time: 5-45 min.


country: DE
comment:
  Nice heavy trafficed spot. Ask drivers for a ride when they are waiting for a green light. 
  Waiting time: 1-30 min. during rush hour.


country: RO
comment:
  If you want to go to Tg.Mures, Cluj, Oradea  this is the best spot you can find. It's great to use a poster but not necessary especialy if you travel just around this area. Have a good journey!
  FBY


country: DE
comment:
  Really good spot for heading southwards towards Frankfurt and Mannheim. A lot of students in cars pass by during daytime. Waiting time: 5-? min.


country: DE
comment:
  Petrol station southwards. A great place to head south to Hannover, GÃ¶ttingen, Kassel. Or maybe east towards Berlin.
  Waiting time: 5-? min.


country: DE
comment:
  Ferryhitching is a great way to reach the nearest petrol station. Walk around and ask everyone during the journey to/from Denmark. See scandlines.de for info about departures.


country: DK
comment:
  The guards wont allow you to hitch onto the ferry to Germany (and save the 7 â‚¬ for passage on foot)


country: DK
comment:
  So far, I've only used it once. It took me 10-15 minutes before a truck pulled over. Recommended if heading south (Vejle, Germany or Copenhagen). A sign towards Vejle was helpful.


country: PT
comment:
  Last roundabout before the highway, good for both ways North (Braga, ValenÃ§a, Spain) or South (Porto, Coimbra, Lisbon) 


country: DE
comment:
  not much traffic is leaving from here. you will have great look over the mosel valley. on a sunny day more cars may stop here, but you will definetly have problems to leave from here when it is rainy, foggy or dark!


country: DE
comment:
  very populated place, most tourists starts hiking to the brocken (highest mountain in the harz) from here, also wintersport tourist will most probably have a parking here. in the afternoon many of them are leaving to the north (Bad Harzburg, Braunschweig) it will be no problem t o get a lift. near this parking you can also find small restaurants and clean toilets.


country: DE
comment:
  it is not easy to get a lift from here. the drivers will see you late because of the curve and the bridge in front of you, also there is not to many traffic. it might require luck to get away


country: DE
comment:
  execellent position if you need a short lift to remagen (bonn) or andernach (koblenz) on the other side of the road


country: NL
comment:
  Good spot for going south: between the traffic lights and the emergency side road. Good because it has loads and loads of traffic. Downside is little place to stop.


country: TR
comment:
  People are cocky here on the way to Antalya, just before the tunnel. They even don't see you standing beside the road. Expect to wait hour(s).


country: SE
comment:
  On the morning of a workday, this was a good spot to head southwards to Sundsvall or Uppsala. 

  Waiting time: 15-? min.


country: DE
comment:
  Crossroads with traffic lights, space one the sidewalk to stop (bicycle track). On sunday noon I waited approx. 15 min for a hike to Karlsruhe.


country: DK
comment:
  Hitchable when heading west of E20. Make sure to be on the northernmost on-ramp of the two joining each other.


country: RU
comment:
  Take train from Belorusskaya to Kubinka. Exellent position behind traffic police station and wide roadside.


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot for hitchhiking towards Salzbergen, Neuenkirchen, Rheine. You could use the side road for hitchhiking, but cars can also stop along the road easily.


country: NO
comment:
  From Fauske in the direction of Narvik. Again, for a guy and a girl - 5 mins, but my two male friends spent dozen of hours trying to hh from Fauske.


country: DE
comment:
  Theres not much Traffic but its the best place to hike to west (A3) and north (A93). Ask to get to Rasthof Jura (Neumarkt). You can reach the spot from the IKEA Bus stop.


country: DE
comment:
  A big truckstop and gas station. Just ask the drivers to get every direction you like. Go there from train stop Burgweinting via Junkerstr. and Burgweintingerstr. (500m). To Burgweinting there is at least one train per hour from Hauptbahnhof. 


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BLOIS-TOURS
  Keep walking to the east, there is a little sidewalk, people can stop anywhere...
  Waiting : 5/10 minutes
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Traffic : 25 cars by minutes 


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BLOIS-TOURS
  Anyway the sidewalk is too big and the speed too fast. However it works better when the traffic is low and if you have a sign to "st jean de la ruelle", keep walking...
  DIRECTION PARIS Take the bus to go to the toll is the best solution


country: RO
comment:
  relatively good for going west f.e. arad, or cluj. startet her at least 3 times, average waiting: 25min


country: CZ
comment:
  arrived here once about 1oclock at night, stood here for 5hours in the winter, not many cars/trucks came trough. hard route at night i guess


country: NL
comment:
  small but busy gas station. Good staring point from Amstelveen. Good to go direction south, Utrecht. Bus station "Dorpstraat" is about 400m east of it and lines 166, 186, 187, 215, 216, and 622 go there.


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION PARIS - TOURS
  A toll is always a good place, and ths one is in the north near from the industries, so maybe good to go really far with a truck.
  Waiting : 15/ 25 min
  Traffic : 15 cars and truck by minute
  Speed : low (toll)


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BLOIS -TOURS
  A very good roundabount and a large place for stop cars !
  Great for your adventure
  Waiting : 5/10 minutes
  Speed : 35 km/h
  Traffic : 5 cars / 1 minute


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION ORLEANS - TOURS 
  Hey don't stop there cars go to fast !
  If you're here try to stop the cars for the intersection...
  Waiting : 1h/40min
  Speed : 90 km/h
  Traffic : 5 cars by minute


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION ORLEANS - FOLOW THE LOIRE RIVER
  see some beutifuls landscapes of this place called "val des chÃ¢teaux", your just at the door of the "Sologne", a very interesting place 
  Waiting : 30sec / 10 min


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION CLERMONT - MONTPELLIER
  This is the toll of the viaduc, drivers paid about 6 euros to cross the bridge... However This is stricly forbidden to hitchike on the viaduc and also at this toll for security reason. They are obligated to eject you from the toll for a bad roundabout where there is no body...
  So try to don't stop there, the gastation 10 km in the south is better "aire du larzac"


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION CLERMONT - MONTPELLIER
  "AIRE DU LARZAC" - GASTATION
  A good place to find a driver, ask direclty is always better...
  Waiting : 30min/1h
  Speed : low
  Traffic : 5 cars by minute go in the gastation


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION TOULOUSE - NIMES - MONTPELLIER
  It's working night and day a toll on the highway, so get profit of that opportunity !
  Waiting : 20/30minutes
  Speed : 35 km/h
  Traffic : high


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BORDEAUX NANTES SPAIN BY A10 OR BRITAIN BY A11 - TOLL OF ST ARNOULT en YVELINES
  This is the bigger toll of europe, there's a lot of car's  stop and there's no problem with the toll director
  Waiting : 2-20 min
  Speed : very low
  Traffic : high


country: DE
comment:
  great chance in all directions! On a fuelstation at Highway A3 from south- to noth- germany (munich to cologne). I used it twice (workdays at 6.oo AM and 9.oo PM) and wait under 5 min.


country: TR
comment:
  it s perfect place to go bursa, istanbul, izmir, kÃ¼tahya, canakkale...eskisehir students get used to HH from there...also easy to arrive...u can take tram from city center if your bag is heavy...just stand near the bus station...


country: ES
comment:
  Stood here hours, first wit a sign: Madrid, after 2 hours just with thumb: and some cars stoped (yes, the old rule!) u need to speak spanish, otherwise very difficult!!!
  thought u can speak to drivers at the tollstation, but they stop just for a few seconds...


country: SK
comment:
  Great spot for hh in direction of Hungary (Miskolc, Budapest). Try to hh with a sign from the bus stop, it shouldn't take too long. look at hitchwiki article of arrival details.


country: DE
comment:
  Excellent rest-area and petrolstation with a bridge connecting both sides. Great for hitching onto the A3, into both directions. Siegburg main trainstation with connections to Bonn (20 minutes) is half an hour walk.


country: BE
comment:
  People taking this exit coming from the north, are usually riding to Martelange on the A4, where you can easily get a ride to Arlon or Luxembourg.


country: FR
comment:
  Excellent!
  the first/last peage on A1 Lille-Paris. When exiting Lille wait to get directly to here - you will get a ride till next peage in maximum 5-10 minutes. If heading to Lille, wait for direct trip instead of accepting gas station as there are barely no traffic in gas stations


country: DE
comment:
  this is a great spot for going to leipzig or to nurmberg. Took the bus to within 200 meters of it. This spot also had a great place for the cars to stop and pick you up 


country: DE
comment:
  this stoip is great if you want to go to Regensburg and further south. However I wanted to get to nuremburg. I waited 3.5 hours. Though this was in febuary, so it should be better in the summer.


country: DE
comment:
  Great place, expecially as it is just on the road leading to the autobahn, and there is a great place for cars to stop. Though it is a 1km walk from the nearest s bahn stop.


country: DE
comment:
  Would be good for heading towards Munich. However I was going to stuttgart, So I walked about 1km and crossed the autobahn (on a bridge) where I had more success.


country: GB
comment:
  Although their is space for the cars to stop, we waited quite a while. Lots of cars going south on the A92. If you want to go north, take the gas station  on the other lane.


country: GB
comment:
  From this service station you can get lifts in any direction, although it took me like 2 hours to meet somebody going to Edinburgh.


country: ES
comment:
  Take bus 36 to Santomera (instructions on wiki). You can get lifts in either direction, heading north/east is very easy.


country: ES
comment:
  Take bus 44D from Murcia (instructions on Wiki). Going to the west should be fine, heading east better get on Santomera service station.


country: TR
comment:
  There is a petrol station and a good point for hitchhiking east to Yozgart, if you stuck into Ankara, take a bus for appr. 3 euro to Kirikalle and ask the bus driver to drop you here infront of the city.


country: CA
comment:
  The friendly nature of Atlantic Canadians (as opposed to Western Canadians or Torontonians for example) is clear when you hitchhike in Nova Scotia.  I have never waited more than 20 minutes for a drive, so long as you are on a common, well traveled route during the day.


country: CA
comment:
  If traveling to Wolfville or further North, where the highways from Halifax and Dartmouth converge make a perfect place to stand.  There is a very clearly marked sign just beyond which marks where pedestrians may not pass. So long as you are before this sign, you won't have a problem with police.  I have never waited more than 10 minutes at this location during the day.


country: CZ
comment:
  Average place at the end of small city for hitchhiking to Prostejov and onwards. Truck drivers can stop here, but usually they doesnt do it. Many drivers ends in some near villages. I advise to use "Prostejov" sign but hitchhiking time can be longer than hour there.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction: A4 Wroclaw, Germany (north and south), France.

  Excellent spot with petrol station, small parking place for trucks and bus stop.

  To get there take a bus nr.238,248,258,268,278 from Bronowice Nowe or Motel Krak and get off at the bus stop named Pasternik Cmentarz (you have to give a signal to the driver to stop here!!!)

  It's also good place to go to the turnpike A4(E40)


country: DE
comment:
  Direction West.
  Very little pace to pull over, but at least during rush hours, this works pretty well.
  A sign saying 'A2 - WEST' is good.


country: DE
comment:
  A great place, but a lot of local traffic. You should at least get a lift to the service area 'Lichtendorf' easily.


country: DE
comment:
  Pretty bad spot to hitch onto the A31 or B54, fast traffic and no spots for cars to stop.Do not get out here!


country: DE
comment:
  Most traffic towards Steinfurt/MÃ¼nster goes up the B54 here, but not much space to stop cars,many trucks, best option is to hitch on the traffic island


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot when coming from MÃ¼nster and traffic only goes towards Greven. First crossing when entering the city, just behind the traffic lights, enough space on hard shoulder to stop cars. Sign might be useful. Much traffic here


country: DE
comment:
  Hard shoulder to stand on, a bit narrow but possible  to stop cars just behind the traffic lights. For direction Saerbeck, IbbenbÃ¼ren. Much traffic here. Be careful with trucks, though.


country: DE
comment:
  Possibility to hitch towards Riesenbeck. Spot is just behind a corner, maybe better stand directly at the crossing. Not much space to stop cars, but possible.


country: CZ
comment:
  Actually good spot to stand on, but take care: Hard shoulder on the left side! Traffic is okay but not too much in direction Germany. Mostly locals.


country: GB
comment:
  Slip road going onto motorway from Birch services. Go East on M62 from here or West from other side. To get here take bus 167 from Manchester Centre, get off by The White Heart pub and walk down Whittle Lane to get to service station - 10 mins.


country: GB
comment:
  It doesn't look like a great place as there's not much room to pull in but I've hitched twice from here and never waited more than a few mins. Good for getting to Brighton as it's just before the motorway (M23). Get the bus to Redhill and get off when you see the flyover. For more details see my blog: http://alongwayfromeden.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-missed-it-by-two-minutes.html


country: AR
comment:
  Peaje de San Luis, un lugar muy bueno para hacer dedo en la ruta Mendoza-Buenos aires (o viceversa!). Hay muchisimo trafico de camiones. Incluso hay un gran parador donde los camioneros duermen por la noche.


country: FR
comment:
  for going north (nancy) or direction paris it might be allright, but never try to get to straÃŸbourg. we waited more than one hour before we decided to try it via metz (which was the better choice)


country: DE
comment:
  for going north, starting in frankfurt, as it's hard to get out of the city itself.
  the spot is a small parking, but you will easily find somebody to take you further north from here. you get there by taking the s-bahn S6 til "Friedrichsdorf" and get off at the terminus. then you walk to the parking and hitch a hike :)


country: DE
comment:
  AVOID this place! Other information regarding this petrol station are obsolete. Because of the new highway A113(finished in 2008) very close hardly any car goes here. I was waiting at this petrol station for a LONG time, never seen such uncrowded place. So beware. Any village gas station has higher frequency!


country: DE
comment:
  I can not recommend this place. Cars are passing with quite high speed and there's not much space for standing.


country: DE
comment:
  Very good place. A petrol station where many cars fuel before entering the highway. perfectly to reach with S-Bahn. The first driver I asked took me with him (to Hannover / A2) =)


country: DE
comment:
  Very difficult to get to Berlin city from here. Most cars were going to Poland here so possibly a good place for this destination.


country: DE
comment:
  Very difficult to get into city of Berlin from here. Most cars were going to Poland so if that's your route it could be a good place.


country: CH
comment:
  got a ride to vevey&montreux.zebra slows down traffic&a huge parkin lot across the street.good luck!
  gj.smyrna


country: FR
comment:
  DIRECTION BOURGES ORLEANS OR TOULOUSE BY A20
  This is the entrance of the A20 there isn't national roads to go to the north easily, so this is a goof one.
  Traffic : Low, 1 car every 2 minutes
  Speed : low, 30km'h
  Waiting : the first car...a lucky day :)


country: GB
comment:
  Towards Perth. Take a bus from the centre of Edinburgh towards Queens Ferry road, get out at the juction with Maybury road and walk along the raod while you find a decent spot to hitch. If you have time before hitchhiking, I suggest a walk along  the River Almond.


country: DE
comment:
  Direction south on A5 (Mannheim/Karlsruhe/Basel) you can get to the Rasthof by foot. Get U6 to Heerstrasse (final stop) and cross Heerstrasse there. You must walk along the U-Bahn traks to the open field and continue the small road. Pass under the bridge and then up the hill. after a couple of meters you need to climb up on the right (i made that in April09, it was muddy, looked as if they are going to plant bushes there but there is a way to get through for sure). Like that you will get to the carpark. As its before Frankfurt you might aim for a lift to the next Rasthof, since that one is bigger and most people dont go that far. But i found a lift very easily like that. (Weekday morning at 10am) might also work for going north, but A5 leads into A7 and A4 afterwards, all the people i asked headed south!


country: HR
comment:
  Only full tourist cars that crosses the island goes here. and that's only once every 40 min when the ferry comes. it took for us whole day to accidentally get a hitch to Hvar. 
  If you will stuck there on Sunday - it's dead end - even NO buses works then and ferry comes even more rear.


country: IT
comment:
  there's a gas station. traffic is quite busy but it takes time to get a car.

  Good for direction to Trieste and I assume that to Venezia as well.


country: HR
comment:
  direction Senj/Split.
  traffic is quite busy but there is no really place for a car to stop.

  we got our ride when the traffic was so busy that cars were standing still anyway :)


country: BA
comment:
  little traffic but when you get one - you can easily get to Gradac/ Klek or somewhere else on Croatian seaside.


country: LV
comment:
  Direction: Lithuania, Poland

  It's easy to reach this place by public transport. Bus No.23 from central station.


country: LV
comment:
  Direction: Lithuania (Kaunas, Vilnius), Poland

  Bauska is a small city so it's easy to reach this end on foot. 


country: LT
comment:
  Direction: Riga, Estonia

  The road splits and it's usual to get dropped here. Left junction goes to Riga and right one to Birzai(Lithuanian town)


country: LT
comment:
  Direction: Kaunas

  The ring road and city street join here. A lot of local cars going to nearby villages.


country: GB
comment:
  Layby in easy walking distance from central Manchester. Good for hitching south. Traffic fast but a good place for it to stop.


country: FR
comment:
  Premier pÃ©age en Espagne. T Bon mais attention aux tÃ©lÃ©pÃ©ages (sans arrÃªts pour les camions) et surtout aux employÃ©s espagnols du pÃ©age qui vont vous pourchasser !...


country: FR
comment:
  Perpignan Nord... Excellent pour Montpellier/Toulouse.
  Prendre le bus N20 de Perpignan jusqu'au Carrefour 10 mns de marche ou train jusque Rivesaltes : 30 mns de marche.


country: FR
comment:
  No place to stop, If you find a brave/crazy driver it can work, but I advise rather the petrol stations. Direct verbal contact works the best!


country: FR
comment:
  V. good spot. How to get? Bus nr 21 stop on "rue des vergers" or bus nr 89 stop "les aulnes". 21 nd 89 go from "gare de Vaise" metro D.


country: DE
comment:
  Perfekt to Freiburg or Munik. West-East.
  Nort-South is not perfekt but good.
  double tramp Bus stations. 


country: DE
comment:
  gas station at A 81.
  good to south: Swizerland or Itally.
  not so good to east: Lake of Konstanz, Lindau, Munik, Austria


country: DE
comment:
  gas station Kreuz Hegau at A 81 north.
  good to north: Stutgart, Frankfurt. 
  not so good to west: Freiburg, France.


country: ES
comment:
  From there you can reach the highway to the north. Many cars and very safe, and on the highway there are many gas stations and bus stops.


country: FR
comment:
  Good place to go south to Colmar, Mulhouse, lots of cars but not so great for the cars to stop, especially when parking places are occupied.


country: RS
comment:
  Pay-toll ramp is great place to get a ride for places along E-70 highway (Banjaluka, Zagreb and whole Croatia, Ljubljana etc.)


country: TR
comment:
  Little traffic (at least during April)... Expect to wait for quite a long time when heading east to Iznik here.


country: CZ
comment:
  From citycenter take tram 7,8,9 or 17. Get out on station 17. listopadu and continue in ORIGINAL tram direction throught street OpavskÃ¡ cca. 1 km till you reach bus station. Almost all cars are going to Opava.


country: CZ
comment:
  From city center go in direction to hospital (through OlomouckÃ¡ street). Stay before mad-house and find your favorite place to hitchhiking. A lot of cars are going in direction to Olomouc, but not all are going directly to the city, so you will transcend during the ride


country: CZ
comment:
  From city center go to TESCO and before the store walk along highway cca. 300m in direction to Ostrava. After big crossroad you find the petrol-station with not a lot of traffic, but all cars are going to Ostrava. 


country: CZ
comment:
  From town center go through street OlomouckÃ¡ and stay before some factory. Good for hitchhiking on 2pm, when all people from factory are going home. There is a lot of car, but not a really good spot to stay. You must stay at roadside.


country: CZ
comment:
  From town center go through street DolnÃ­ to the highway approach ProstÄ›jov - stÅ™ed (or ask people how to go to Kralice), on the crossroad before higway turn left, go up the railway and down the highway. On the roundabout go straight and on first crossroad turn left. Good hitchplace mostly in working days because there going a lot of cars from industrial zone.


country: CZ
comment:
  From town center go through street DolnÃ­ to the highway approach ProstÄ›jov - stÅ™ed (or ask people how to go to Kralice), on the crossroad before highway turn right and stay 5 meters from crossroad. To Brno you will stay max. 30 minutes 


country: CZ
comment:
  From town center go through street "BrnÄ›nskÃ¡" (or in direction to cemetery ("MÄ›stskÃ½ hÅ™bitov")). You will stay before petrol station "Avanti" - cars can stop there. To Brno you will wait max. 30 minutes.


country: CZ
comment:
  Go from town center in direction to Olomouc (into local area called "VyÅ¡ehrad"), on the crossroads go straight and up the horizon stay at bus station. To Olomouc you will wait max. 30 minutes


country: HR
comment:
  Waited here for about 30 mins and got a ride all the way to Split. Cars were going a bit fast, but there was a bus stop where they could stop easily.


country: RU
comment:
  the best point to go to Saint-Petersburg, this place is a post of traffic police and it is full of lights


country: DE
comment:
  This road leads to the motorway to Prague. Just find an empty parking or a bus station to wave your thumb.
  Don't go further than NÃ¶thnitzer StraÃŸe, the road starts to get fast there.


country: BR
comment:
  From Floripa hitching south take a Bus to Palhoca and go to the last station, it is close to the BR101 and there is also a gasstation!


country: UY
comment:
  Because there is a toll station cars don't go too fast and there is enough place to stop. You can come here very easy by bus from Montevideo.


country: FR
comment:
  not really good point for hitch-hiking but got a ride which brought us to the other end of the periferique


country: NL
comment:
  Ramp to the A28 direction Amersfoort, with traffic lights. This is the main exit road from the big Uithof university area, and is a perfect spot for mainly afternoon weekday traffic. Avg waiting time during the week: 20 minutes. And over 1,5 hours on sunday. Don't do that. 
   
  Getting there: Take bus 11 to the final stop: WKZ (Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis), walk along the in the direction of the A28 (you'll see it), and along the hospital towards the traffic lights. 


country: BE
comment:
  very good place to go any direction: Gent/Brussels, Roeselare/Kortrijk or Veurne/Oostende!! Use a sign, then you know when a car stops, he go's to the direction you want


country: IS
comment:
  Large road with a large bus stop (it's covered, so you can use it as a shelter when it's raining). Lots of people driving downtown, useful for outbound hitches as well.


country: SI
comment:
  A good petrol station in direction of Villach, Salzburg, Germnay. Many cars stop here, all of them head at least to Austria. If you try to get after Villach, accept only rides that take the ring around the city!


country: DE
comment:
  Memmingen-Ost on-ramp, Direction of Munchen. situated at the edge of town. To get there walk from the center on the MÃ¼nchner Str. for 1 kilometer till you reach the on-ramp. Then turn right where the traffic turns for direction of MÃ¼nchen, and hitchhike there while standing on the grass on the side. There is not a great place for the cars to stop, but they can always stop on the grass or stop for a second on the road if there is not much traffic. It's best to hold a M for Munich or AU for Augsburg sign. 


country: DE
comment:
  lots of traffic heading to wasserbillig, luxembourg from here to fill there cars, enough place to stop but you will most proably get a short lift only to wasserbillig (10km)


country: DE
comment:
  not an excellent place but it's fine if you wanna leave Strasbourg in direction of Germany (u can take a quick and cheap train from STBG to Appenweier, then walk about 25min. to the gas station)


country: FR
comment:
  Very efficient for a short trip from Stbg to Nancy or Metz. A cheap bus goes there in about 30min from the city center (Les Halles)


country: DE
comment:
  to the south, A3. not best place for cars to stop but it is a very busy ramp and so somebody will stop, place yourself exactly where the marker is


country: US
comment:
  decent spot, lots of room for cars to pull over, took me about 20 minutes to get a ride, and right but an intersection so cars can see you in advance.


country: US
comment:
  Good spot. only spent about 30 minutes here before i got a ride. got harassed by some coppers, but they didn't come back to check if i was still there.


country: US
comment:
  took free shuttle from SFSU to Dali City BART, then samtrans bus for a couple bucks and got dropped off right here. got a ride in 10 minutes. great way of leaving SF.


country: DE
comment:
  Ganz gut um nach Aschaffenburg und zur A3 zu kommen (Dieburg->Babenhausen->Vor Aschaffenburg bei dem zubringer Ã¼ber Selingenstadt absetzen lassen)


country: PL
comment:
  to Warsaw: 
  take bus #103 from centrum (direction 'Choroszcz', http://www.komunikacja.bialystok.pl/rozk_start.asp 
  get out at the station 'Porosly' and hitchhike right from the bus-stop
  or take bus #4 from centrum (direction 'Klepacka'), get out at the station 'Makro' and walk 1km to the bus-stop 'Porosly' right after junction with E67


country: BY
comment:
  to Mogilev:
  Take Metro (2nd line (red)  'Avtozavodskaya linija') to 'Mahileuskaya' station, then take a bus #512 to Sokal get off at the junction with M1. You can try hitching just after the junction or walk 1.5 km east towards junction of M4 (towards Mahileu) and M5 (towards Homel') roads.


country: BY
comment:
  to Borisov, Moscow(RU) (for night-time hh):
  take Metro (1st line(blue)) to 'Uruchcha' station, then get the bus #15, #99, #263 to '9-yj kilometr' station, get out and walk 0.5km NE along the road. The spot is right after junction


country: BY
comment:
  to Brest, Poland:
  take Metro to the 'Istytut Kul'tury' station (1st(blue) line), then take the bus #32, #41, #103, #117, #120 to 'Druzhba' station, then  take the bus #28, #90, #132 to 'Pavarot na Malinauku' station, get out and walk 200m SW


country: BY
comment:
  Take Metro (2nd line 'Avtozavodskaya linija') to 'Kamennaya Horka', get off walk 50m (direction west) and hitch right from the bus stop.


country: BY
comment:
  towards Moscow, Russia (day-time):
  take Metro (2nd line 'Avtozavodskaya linija') to 'Mahileuskaya', then take a bus #512 to 'Sokal' get off at the turn from M1 to 'Sokal'. Spot is right after this crossroad. 


country: NL
comment:
  For [b]Tubbergen. N349/N746[/b]. I hitch here twice a week on average, usually well after dark, and have always been away within 20 minutes. Take bus 23 to Canisiuscollege, and make sure you have a sign. 


country: NL
comment:
  N746 by Schaepmanmonument. Excellent for Almelo, always need to carry sign to get beyond Almelo though. 


country: NL
comment:
  Not a good place for hitchhiking, but doable towards Bad Bentheim. In case you need to go further, make sign "Bad Bentheim" en continue from that ramp later on. Public transportation between Oldenzaal and Bad Bentheim is shite, so by appearing to be local your chances increase enormously. 


country: NL
comment:
  Pretty good spot for hitching towards the highway/service station there and/or towards Oldenzaal or Hengelo. Mostly a lot of traffic.


country: NL
comment:
  A58 to Eindhoven
  havent hitched from here but checked it out, looked promising though its not easy to get here from centre of Breda. not too many cars but who goes this way goes to direction of Eindhoven.


country: NL
comment:
  A58 eastboud, A16, etc
  very easy to get here from centre of Breda, 15 minutes with bus, get off at last stop in Ulvenhout, enough space for cars to stop in front of fire department


country: DE
comment:
  A4 eastbound
  From KÃ¶ln you can get here with regionalbahn25, change in overath for bus 310, go two stops and walk 15 minutes (check map before), may take some time to get here but imho better then trying to hitch out from KÃ¶ln, big rest place, many cars


country: DE
comment:
  A7 and A4 N&E-bound
  small petrolstation and rest place, not the best place in my consideration though a guy who was hitching here too said he has been here before and its OK


country: DE
comment:
  A4
  bus stop before traffic lights so enough space for cars to stop and they are not driving that fast. accesible with s-bahn from centre (Platanenstrasse) +5 minutes walk


country: DE
comment:
  A4 & A9
  very good for direction east, but couldnt get a ride to direction south on A9 from here after 1.5 hours, maybe it was only bad luck but i could see only a very few cars going that way if any. had to walk through the forest to the other restplace east from here on A9, if you like challenge and have time maybe you can do the same though wouldnt really recommend.


country: DE
comment:
  A9 southbound
  good for direction NÃ¼rnberg&MÃ¼nchen, restplace on the other side is accessible via tunnel from the hotel bit north from here


country: DE
comment:
  many directions (east-south)
  bus stop after traffic lights, enough space to stop and cars are not so fast. take bus 44 from centre to here or walk here from trainstation. 


country: DE
comment:
  big restplace
  many hungarian and international trucks and cars, if you are lucky you may get a long distance hitch  (got one from here to Budapest, 600 kms, made things easy:))


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station on national road 92. You can hitch towards Warsaw from here. There are two trams coming very close to this place: no 6 and 8.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction northeast towards Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Torun. It's a bus stop so there's a place to pull over. You can get here from Rondo Srodka by bus 73. Very popular spot.


country: IE
comment:
  Stand at traffic lights and approach stopped cars. Great for Belfast and other places north of Dublin.


country: DE
comment:
  Ramp 28; south: Horrible ramp with very little place to safely stop, but so much traffic that the statistics start working in your favour. Stood here for 40 minutes in direction OsnabrÃ¼ck. 


country: DE
comment:
  Allertal West; Extremely well used raststÃ¤tte on the A7, due to its location on the stretch of autobahn where all the traffic to Hamburg/Bremen and Hannover/Rhein-Ruhr converge. To the north the A27 and A7 merge, to the south the A352/A2 and A7. Probably the best spot north of Hannover, stood here for 90 seconds trying to get out...


country: NL
comment:
  Southbound; lots of traffic towards Nijmegen coming from Wageningen. Easy to get rides to Nijmegen here, ask if you can be dropped off at petrol station a few kilometres down the road if you need to get further afield.


country: NL
comment:
  North(east)bound; not anywhere near as heavily used as the southbound ramp, although there is very little local traffic using this ramp, so most rides will be at least to Apeldoorn or Zevenaar, but likely further. Westbound traffic usually uses the Wageningen ramp on the A12.


country: DE
comment:
  To Nijmegen. There will be lots of people going from the airport to the city and back, and they will be using this ramp. The last flights come in around midnight, so after 0.30 it'll get really quiet here.


country: NL
comment:
  Traffic is thin, but almost all of it goes to Nijmegen or further, and there is ample place to stop.
  Expect around 15-30 minutes on average for Nijmegen. At Hoofdstraat there is a busstop (83), which provides an alternative way of getting into the city.


country: IT
comment:
  Wanted to hitchhike from here further north to austria, but all cars just go to Verona or at the junction in front of Verona west or east... (didnt speak italy)


country: DE
comment:
  West towards Nordhorn/Oldenzaal; just passed the K&K supermarket. Most cars passing here will be going at least towards the Bad Bentheim ramp on the motorway A30.


country: IT
comment:
  Take a bus from Bologna to somewhere here(comes over the bridge and stops close behind the runabout) and then u can walk (back) to the petrol station. To go north cross the highway at the brigdebuilding!!! (i took the tracks-mud!!!)
  went north, dont speak italy, took about 20 min...


country: IT
comment:
  Very small petrol station, wrong side for cars on the way to the highway...
  better go to the toll station 300m away!!!


country: IT
comment:
  aks the people directly when the need to press the button/pay. could be illegal, but after 10min i got a ride


country: AT
comment:
  Very small petrol station, but also a toll station where the cars need to stop and open the window, but it took ages...


country: DE
comment:
  Friday evening, about 6/7oclock... not so may cars - it took quite a while, longer than i expected, but in the end alright


country: DE
comment:
  Thats the station ive been so often. accessible from nÃ¼rnberg. cars at almost every time... 
  waited here 1min to 1hour (3 oclock at night!). average: 10min


country: DE
comment:
  wanted to go south(A73->A9), took quite a while (30-45min), but better then the huge junction about 300m south i would say


country: DE
comment:
  good station to go further south and to go the A70 (west: Bamberg, WÃ¼rzburg)
  And u can go back from here, coz there is this bridge restaurant, maybe if u missed the A4 ;)


country: IE
comment:
  After Maxol Station on Limerick Road, wait near bus stop as Its easy for cars to pull in there. Only had to wait 10 minutes


country: DE
comment:
  To Berlin or Nuremberg, with a sign is better. You have to find the Porches Museum to hitch-Hick in this place


country: TR
comment:
  it s another perfect place to go ankara and east of turkey... opposite of anadolu uni. and possible to see another student hitchhiker .)


country: GB
comment:
  An ok place to get rides after getting off the boat, however it is a long walk, and traffic is already fast, better trying earlier on the A75 or at Cairnryan


country: NO
comment:
  I stood here for about 30 min and got a ride with a guy who was going to Sandvika, He was nice enough to drive to Asker and dropped me off at a gas station by E18. The second person I asked there gave me a ride to my final destination in TÃ¸nsberg:)


country: NL
comment:
  For direction Deventer/Hengelo. Very little eastbound traffic makes use of this ramp, use ramp by Zutphensestraat instead.


country: NL
comment:
  Southbound direction Arnhem/Eindhoven. Not a great ramp, but most of the traffic using this ramp heads south.


country: NL
comment:
  Good ramp for direction east, catches most of the Apeldoorn traffic. Negative side is that it's a long way out of town.


country: GB
comment:
  Good place for hitch-hiking onto M40 - 1.5 miles away from Uxbridge station. Make sure the driver is going straight through on M40, and not on M25


country: DE
comment:
  Another Short Cut locals use to get from Hinterzarten towwards BÃ¤rental. Highly frequented during winter season, this road is empty in summer. 


country: SE
comment:
  A busstop to Malmo. Waited here 2 hours to go to GÃ¶tenborg(and eventually anywhere better than this place). I tried different signes and no signs, it didn't helped. Take with you some Swedish Kronas so you could take the bus.


country: DK
comment:
  From the ferry to Denmark, it's a very bad place. Every half an hour everyone rushes off the ferry. The Danish and Swedish people don't have place because the car is full of alcohol. Than there's no one for half an hour.


country: DE
comment:
  A trafficlight just before the ramp on the way to the ferry at Puttgarden. Good place to ask for rides.


country: BE
comment:
  just outside the city center of veurne across the Q8 gasoline station, there's place to stop for cars, plenty of cars coming from the seaside (koksijde and De Panne) goin direction Brussels.   not a good place if you wish to go direction france.


country: DE
comment:
  this place is awsome! there is a trafficlight directly before the motorway. and its easy to reach with line 18


country: RU
comment:
  It is a bit hard to take a car cuz of a small 'parkin pocket' , however, it's possible and drivers going to Vyborg are ready to take on the board


country: RU
comment:
  Метро Звездная, 5 минут до Московского шоссе. Голосую около завода Самсон, там два быка и еду в сторону Москвы. С пересадками..


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Grenoble ou Italie, demandez aux gens de vous amener au moins au "pÃ©age des Marches", et de lÃ  Grenoble (Panneau conseillÃ©)

  To Grenoble or Italie. If the car doesn't go in Grenoble or Italie, ask the driver to let you in "pÃ©ages des Marches" few kilometers ago.


country: FR
comment:
  Meilleur dÃ©part vers Annecy ou Lyon. Mettez-vous sur le terre-plein central au niveau du feu (ils tournent Ã  gauche aprÃ¨s le carrefour), remontez la file de voiture au feu rouge. Si il fait beau (fenÃªtres ouvertes), n'hÃ©sitez pas Ã  demander directement au gens. Demander au moins le pÃ©age, entre 10 min et 1h d'attente.

  Best start to Lyon or Annecy. Ask to the people in the left. Ask for the pay station.


country: FR
comment:
  DÃ©part vers Grenoble et ChambÃ©ry. Des feux partout, on dÃ©colle trÃ¨s vite au moins jusqu'au pÃ©age de St Quentin Fallavier. Mais il n'y a pas beaucoup de place pour les gens pour s'arrÃªter (des places de parking toujours prises), c'est pas trÃ¨s confortable. Les feux sont coordonnÃ©s, il faut repÃ©rer ceux qui retiennent le plus de voiture, gÃ©nÃ©ralement ils prennent quand ils sont arrÃªtÃ©s.

  A lot of lights, choose the one which stop a lot of cars. To Grenoble or Chambery, it works very good. Ask for the pay station "St Quentin Fallavier"


country: FR
comment:
  PÃ©age de Villefranche.
  Direct pour Paris (10 min d'attente, une demi-heure en pÃ©riode de vacances). Il est dÃ©conseiller de monter dans une voiture qui n'y va pas directement : perdre 5 min ici vaut mieux que perdre une heure dans le dÃ©sert sÃ©parant Lyon et Paris.
  Direction Lyon, on attend pas plus de 2 min avec un beau panneau et un beau sourire.

  Ask direct for Paris (about 10 min waiting if you smile and move), don't stop before if you don't want to wait a long time in the French desert. For Lyon, you will wait 2 min.


country: FR
comment:
  En franÃ§ais pour les franÃ§ais ^^
  RER D direction Melun, arrÃªt Villabe (attention il n'y en a pas beaucoup qui y passent, un par heure environ. La ligne est compliquÃ©e). Un quart d'heure de marche depuis la gare, tendre le pouce Ã§a marche une fois sur deux.
  De la station demandez au moins le pÃ©age de Fontainebleau.


country: FR
comment:
  PÃ©age de Fleury (connu aussi sous le nom de Fontainebleau). En 10 min vous trouvez pour Lyon (30 min en pÃ©riode de vacances). Si vous allez Ã  Lyon ne vous arrÃªtez pas avant, ne montez pas dans les voitures ne passant pas le pÃ©age de Villefranche, vous risquez de perdre pas mal de temps pour retrouver une autre voiture.

  Paystation "Fleury" or "Fontainebleau". Very good place to Lyon (10 min, 30 since the holydays)


country: PL
comment:
  you really don't wanna stuck in here... a lot of car but not picker... i waited 2 hours on summer time, imagine it... if you can find some don't stop until next village, because there is night clubs per 200m...


country: PL
comment:
  when you arrive here you almost finished of way to Warsaw .) which place do you want to arrive ask to driver...


country: PL
comment:
  i really agree with cincinatik .) easy to arrive and easy to find car... you able to ask to drive where you wanna go...


country: PL
comment:
  there is no more good point to LT, LV, EST, RU from Biavystok... easy to arrive here from city center with bus...


country: PL
comment:
  there is a petrol station opposite side of your HH point after circle cross road... pretty good place to LT, LV...


country: LT
comment:
  main way but not so much traffic and people are senseless... if you are lucky like me(i found car to Hamburg) you can stand an hour...


country: GB
comment:
  good spot for getting onto a11 from m11, delivery drivers with sat navs often take this route rather than junction to south, wide road slow traffic after r'bout


country: EE
comment:
  To Tallinn and MÃ¤o crossroad in central Estonia
  Low speeds, wide road (bus stop), close to city center


country: EE
comment:
  To Mustvee, JÃµhvi and Narva
  wide road, good visibilty, 50-70km/h speeds. Road is ready since 2007, it's not under construction.


country: FR
comment:
  We didn't have time to put up a stop sign, we were standing on the entry of the station and someone pulled over for us. Pretty fast go.


country: FR
comment:
  Very hard to get to Paris, people there are going everywhere... When we were trying Paris, many were going to Brussels, and the other way around the next time. It takes a while to get out!


country: FR
comment:
  Last stop on the highway to change to the A77, to Clermont, Nevers, Moulins, most people are going to Lyon but truckers will take you. Seems easy to go to Lyon from there.


country: FR
comment:
  Really hard to leave there. Got dropped and couldn't keep on. Try to avoid the N, because you can't reach the Highway easily (tried but couldn't get in). I (a girl) got hit on by a 'little person', who asked for sex for a ride, after I got in. Be careful.


country: FR
comment:
  Truck stop close to here, just walk along and you'll find it. I got lucky I guess, but check it out if you're stuck.


country: FR
comment:
  Lots of hotels around here, we tried asking around on the parking lots, pretty good to go to Calais or Lille, maybe some plaace else, lots of foreign cars and such...


country: NL
comment:
  South towards Tubbergen;
  No hard shoulders, and lots of traffic pulling up fast. It might work outside of rush hour, but don't put your money on it.


country: NL
comment:
  South to Tubbergen; 

  Just past the roundabout. No hard shoulder, but slow traffic. Took me 35 minutes to get a ride here.


country: FI
comment:
  Near university of applied sciences (TAMK). To Lahti and JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤. There is a good bus-stop where you can hitchhike ("Kissanmaa"). You can walk here from city center. You can take a car going to wrong city, but remember to jump out before motorways. Using sign isn't necessary. Wating times: 5-40min.


country: FI
comment:
  To JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤ and Tampere. There is a bus-stop right after Shell gas-station. Very good point. "Ruutana-crossroads".


country: EE
comment:
  Take a trolley or a buss from city center and start from here if you are going to Paldiski-direction.


country: US
comment:
  North on I-89: Difficult for a car to pull aside and dense traffic along Williston Rd but feasible if a car pull in the gas station court


country: US
comment:
  Walk there from the border to hitch further north. You are sure to catch all traffic and not be causing/getting any problems with the authority


country: CA
comment:
  Easy to hitch, however there is nearly no traffic, it is more valuable to use a parallel Regional Road with more traffic.


country: CA
comment:
  Toward Quebec: There isn't much space for a car to pull over and it isn't the most convenient spot but with patience you can catch a long distance ride


country: CA
comment:
  NOTE: This whole on-ramp is currently on Redesign toward MTL - Relay point along the highway, 24h Services located at this exit (crossroad with Route 138) and possibility to hitch the on-ramp to Quebec


country: CA
comment:
  Northward: Local traffic but there is possibility one of the few car will stop. If you are heading to St-Basile, stay by the ramp so that industrial truck can coming slowly from the highway can stop for you


country: DJ
comment:
  Toward Djibouti or Arta: (Carrefour d'Arta) Be patient as traffic is very scarce but you definitely can manage a ride (PS toward Djibouti, do not stop in Balbala)


country: SK
comment:
  In direction of Poprad Presov DolnÃ½ KubÃ­n, Namestovo, TvrdoÅ¡Ã­n, LiptovskÃ½ MikulÃ¡Å¡ and RuÅ¾omberok


country: SK
comment:
  Cars speed up quite a bit after the turn, but with a sign and a good smile, it's possible to get a lift to the east.


country: PL
comment:
  A2 motorway junction in both directions east (Warsaw) and west (Berlin). You can get here by bus no. 71 from bus stop Zamek. No emergency lanes and mostly local trafic.


country: FR
comment:
  Stood there right before the entrance to the A7; took me 5 minutes to get a lift to a service station


country: FR
comment:
  Spain: excellent, many trucks heading southwards
  Toulouse, Bordeaux: senseless. I resigned and walked to the train station of Narbonne


country: FR
comment:
  Excellent spot. An algerian man passes by at around 7:30am on his way home from work and he gives all the hitchhikers a lift. So get up early ;-)


country: PL
comment:
  A2 motorway toll booths. You can hitch from here in both directions towards Berlin or Warsaw. There is a bus 108 from Ogrody in Poznan to Dopiewiec (village nearby)


country: HR
comment:
  This bus stop is the best place along this road. It still took an hour to get a lift, but at least there is plenty of traffic, and a good place for them to stop.


country: FR
comment:
  Don't stand there as a girl - you're very likely to be taken as a prostitute. Very easy to get to the Belgium border though, but rather try the other side of the rails...


country: GB
comment:
  this LOOKS as if itis on the A1 where motorway regulations apply- dangerous & illegal to hitch from here!
  Approx 2000m NW along A1 might be legal


country: IE
comment:
  Just infront of the Garda Station this is a decent spot i use regularly going to Ennis/Limerick. Average waiting time is about 15 minutes.


country: IE
comment:
  In front of the parking lot beside gas station. If your heading towards Ennistymon stay here, the road ahead is fast, twisty and with nowhere for cars to stop.


country: IE
comment:
  Another good spot on the way to Lahinch/Cliffs of Moher, theres also a gas station here so good space for cars to stop. Average wait 10-15 mins.


country: IE
comment:
  Such a frustrating road. There is a lot of traffic entering the industrial estate here so i kept getting my hopes up seeing people pulling in to stop only for them to drive through the gates!


country: IE
comment:
  I have marked 3 points on this road where i had absolutely no luck getting a lift during a 2 hour period. This one is just at the entrance to Lidl. 0 cars stopped


country: IE
comment:
  My third position on this road was just before the entrance to a B&B (cant remember the name). Yet again zero cars stopped.


country: IE
comment:
  Walk past the travel lodge, over the bridge. theres a Maxol garage (i think) on the left. Got a lift to dublin after about 5 minutes.


country: IE
comment:
  Not a great place. 45 min wait (maybe i was unlucky)for lift to Ennis. if you are going to Limerick you shouldnt have to wait so long


country: IE
comment:
  Excellent spot, my average waiting time has been about 5 minutes. You can walk here from the city centre (20-30 mins) 


country: IT
comment:
  most of the traffic from the northern lake garda to the motorway is crossing this point, maybe more useful at the weekends where more tourists go over here


country: IT
comment:
  autostop already forbidden here, better write a sign (because highway divides), hide from carabinieri, or ask at the peage. not cool place when it is hot and sunny


country: IT
comment:
  not this much traffic, hard to find someone going to the next service station after trento, to trento no problem


country: GB
comment:
  A very nice quiet place. The road towards Porlock is not that easy to hitchhike, but you'll arive. Passing London is the hardest part.


country: FI
comment:
  Kyltin kanssa, mutta saattaa ottaa ainaa (testattu juhannusliikenteessÃ¤, noin 2,5 tunnin odotuksella)


country: FR
comment:
  I love this spot. Excellent for both directions, easy to get a lift to Geneva if going north and to Torino or Milan if going south.
  Cars are passing REALLY slow, and all the traffic is coming through this tunnel.


country: IE
comment:
  For Limerick and the South West. There is alot of local traffic so it could be wise to put "Mountrath" on your sign as this town nearby has many service stations.


country: GB
comment:
  Walk past MacDonalds and the big supermarket in the North of Newry. You will then see a grey patch alongside the road to stand.


country: IE
comment:
  Going to Waterford, once you passed the ring road roundabout, anywhere past Springhill Hotel is good but a little further on nearer to the Rugby Club is perfect for cars to pull in.Only waited 10 minutes when I stopped at the rugby club


country: IE
comment:
  Going to Kilkenny,waited 40 minutes as its not a busy road.Once you get past Lidl roundabout, you're laughing but there isnt a high volume of traffic going that direction.


country: IE
comment:
  I was dropped off at Kilmeaden as it attaches to the Cork Road. But i think the map is wrong here.Anyway, Going to Cork, I waited 5 minutes at the bus stop in the village before the Centra Shop.Its a busy road which i do believe the village is on the main Cork-Waterford Road


country: IE
comment:
  Going to tramore, once you get to the bus stop opposite Superquinn, load of cars travelling for the short journey.Otherwise you could get the bus for â‚¬3


country: IE
comment:
  going to Kilcrohane, u take the road to Durrus I waited 10 minutes for a local to pick me up but sometimes you might have to wait longer as its a quiet road down the Sheep's Head


country: DE
comment:
  The bus station 'Beiertheim West' makes a good hitchihking spot for direction south, but shoud also work for East (Stuttgart) or West (Landau). Reachable by bus no. 062, but also by tram no. 2 to 'WelfenstraÃŸe' or by walking from the main station into 'EbertstraÃŸe' (10 Minutes'.


country: CA
comment:
  Dormi en esta peuqeÃ±a estacion de servicio pq tome esta alternativa para no entrar en la ciudad. Por la maÃ±ana camine 10 km hasta la siguiente estacion de servicio


country: FR
comment:
  To Bordeaux:
  There is a rounabout, and a toll to get the highway. 
  Never waited more than 10 min.

  To Toulouse:
  90% of cars go to Bordeaux. The best thing to do is to reach the main toll, in the south of Bordeaux. It's a big toll, and most of drivers go to Agen-Toulouse.


country: FR
comment:
  To Aix/Marseille or Montpellier:
  Near the commercial center (Carrefour), Ã  the toll. Most of the people take this toll to drive on the highway. Don't go to the other toll!
  I waited less than 10mn.


country: DE
comment:
  Gas station and restpoint. great place for hitchhiking to Magdeburg, Berlin and further. we spent about five minutes asking for lift.


country: DE
comment:
  I DonÂ´t know where exactly, but walking this street it taked us about ten minutes to stop a car to OsnabrÃ¼ck (in three people). Maybe just good luck.


country: DE
comment:
  Most comfortable gasstation ever :-) Especialy good spot at morning. If none is at gas station you can try bus stop 30 meters away, where drivers can easily stop.


country: DE
comment:
  I used this spot as filter from Berin drivers... here stops only people who goes to south (Dresden, Czech) or east (Poland). If you are going south you can ask drivers at Berlin ring going to Poland drop you here. Just filter.


country: NL
comment:
  According to maps in the city there is a gas station on the way to the highway. In fact it was already closed.


country: PL
comment:
  to Torun, Lodz (A1): Bus stop. It takes 15 min walk from Railway Station.
  Just after 2nd traffic lights after big crossroads (Okopowa x Podwale przedmiejskie)


country: CA
comment:
  Excellent moyen de sortir de MontrÃ©al vers l'est.  Prendre l'autobus pour Repentigny (dÃ©part mÃ©tro Radisson) et dÃ©barquer a la gare d'Ã©change.  Une lÃ©gÃ¨re marche sur la rue de la Fayette et vous Ãªtes sur une entrÃ©e d'autoroute trÃ¨s passante ou il y a mÃªme une lumiere de circulation.  80% des gens passant a cette endroit empruntent l'autoroute.


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station on the bypass, direction Szczecin, Berlin. You can get here by free bus 807 from Gdansk Zabianka, or bus 7 from Gdynia Karwiny going to Osowa Shopping Centre.


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station on the bypass, direction Torun, Lodz, Poznan. You can get close to this spot by free bus 807 from Gdansk Zabianka, or bus 7 from Gdynia Karwiny going to Osowa Shopping Centre.


country: PL
comment:
  Bus stop on national road 6, just behind the end of S6 bypass. You can get here by SKM local train to Gdynia Chylonia.


country: PL
comment:
  Merge lane and bus stop on national road 6 direction Koszalin, Szczecin, Berlin. You can get here by SKM local train to Wejherowo station which is just 50m from the spot.


country: DE
comment:
  If you wanna go South the A9 to Nuremberg, Munich, it works well! There is a trafficlight, and you stand on the other side of the road, so if you have a sign "N" the people see you and have time to think about taking you. I never waited longer than 15 minutes.


country: DE
comment:
  It's allright to go direction North (A9 direction Hof, Berlin), but people might have to stop at the entrance of the motorway... nevermind, lots of people did so and I got lifts after 30 min max!


country: PL
comment:
  Direction Swinoujscie and Koszalin, GdaÅ„sk. Slip road on the motorway A6 junction with small lay-by. 


country: PL
comment:
  Bus stop in the direction Gorzow Wielkopolski, Zielona Gora, Wroclaw and Poznan. You can get here by buses 79, 73(Z) from Basen Gorniczy where you can get by trams 7 and 8 from the centre of Szczecin.


country: PL
comment:
  Junction with traffic lights in the direction Walcz, Szczecin. You can get nearby by bus no. 2 from city centre. 


country: PL
comment:
  Junction with traffic lights in the direction Koszalin, Kolobrzeg. You can get nearby by bus no. 2 from city centre. 


country: PL
comment:
  Direction north towards Pila, Koszalin, Baltic Coast. There's a merge lane with bus stop. Trams 9 and 11 come very close to this place. Traffic jam happens quite often there so cars don't speed up.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction east towards Lodz, Warszawa (motorway A2) or southeast towards Katowice (national road 11), so make a sign. You can get there by any tram going to Rondo Rataje. This dual carriegeway is a main road connecting Poznan with A2 from the east. Popular spot.


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station on expressway direction north towards Lodz, Warszawa, Gdansk. You can get here by bus 805 from bus station in Katowice to Szpital Wojewodzki (hospital). Get off at the last stop. From Sosnowiec take bus 26 or 299.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction Poznan. There's a bus stop behind junction with traffic lights on national road 5 (E261). You can get here by trams 1, 7, 15 to Marino (last stop).


country: PL
comment:
  Toll booths on motorway A4 (E40) direction Katowice, Wroclaw, Germany. You can get nearby by bus 208, 292 or local train to Port Lotniczy (Airport).


country: DE
comment:
  OMV Gas station (first after german border; many germans return to garmisch, but good to hike to innsbruck too)


country: GB
comment:
  Hopefully I have marked this spot right! To get to Brighton: Get the 109 bus from Brixton and get off when the bus starts going a different way from the 'Brighton' signs. This spot is on the M23, next to a row of shops with space for parking outside (great for people to pull into!) It's opposite a big pub too.


country: FR
comment:
  was standing there for six hours, normally a good place, because there is are third way in the circulation which isn't used, but people were really unpolite. 


country: DE
comment:
  the only possibility to get into the south directly, cars see you late, but can stop very good, you have to write your destination (North or south)


country: FR
comment:
  peage, many trucks go this way to clermont-Ferrant, Millau and Montpellier, very good possibility for a nighttrip because of the long way.


country: DE
comment:
  for going to LÃ¼beck, Hamburg, Rostock cars can see you early, there is some space to stop and they can take you up to the petrol station near Rostock.


country: DE
comment:
  you can go to this point by tram Pankow heinersdorf, some meters away is also a petrol station, at this point is also a good possibility to stop for the cars who dont stop at the station. need perhaps a paper with the destination.


country: DE
comment:
  not possible to go to the direction of Poland, nobody drives there and the only person who goes there is an impolite person typical for that region.


country: DE
comment:
  to go to Rostock it is good, cars can see you quite early and can stop very well. the paople here are not very open, but you have to be lucky.


country: FR
comment:
  BrianÃ§on. Si vous allez vers Grenoble, ce spot est plus que correct. 
  En sortant de la ville,suivre les panneaux indiquant Grenoble par la D1091, 100 mÃ¨tres aprÃ¨s le virage du McDonald, lever le pouce sur le trottoir, les voitures ne vont pas vite et ont beaucoup de place pour s'arrÃªter dans sur le bas-cÃ´tÃ© en face d'un magasin.

  Heading to Grenoble : Follow the 'Grenoble' sign and 100 meters after the McDonald's turn, there's a big side for the cars to stop.


country: SE
comment:
  Heading South from center over bridge past the roundabout to bus stop. Room for them to stop, all E4 traffic going south goes past here.


country: NO
comment:
  I went into KlÃ¸fta (after standing at the on-ramp for a while) and a truck came by (from a industrial zone). Nice trip!


country: NO
comment:
  A good spot (Statoil petrol Station), where trucks and cars are driving south and/or north. I just the first guy I met and got a hike to Hamar (50 km North)


country: NO
comment:
  A could place, but not what I wanted (as I was going north). I waited a minute or so and then the first guy stopped and wanted to give me a ride (.. but to Stockholm). 5 minutes after the same happened. So - if you want to go to Sweden or even Stockholm, this is an excellent spot


country: AU
comment:
  lots of traffic with a long line of site, nice spot for cars to pull over, mostly local traffic though so its easiest to get a ride to a town like Nowra.


country: AU
comment:
  a truck stop type area, good line of site for cars to see you, easy for them to pull over, and all of the traffic is heading south. Louisa and Liam got a ride in 10 mins using speed hitching.


country: AU
comment:
  Petrol station just outside Milton, Good line of site for drivers and an area for them to pull over, not much traffic in the afternoon, though.


country: AU
comment:
  horrible spot, the cars can see you but there's nowhere they can really pull over. Locals advise hitching at the lights so people can pull into the road at the cemetery, but its inconvenient. there's a petrol station just up the road, but it has traffic from both directions. Dont bother walking south, the speed limit goes up and theres nowhere at all for cars to stop. Try walking a bit furth back into town and there may be somewhere better. 


country: AU
comment:
  nowhere for cars to pull over on the length of highway heading out of batemans bay, so try to avoid this area completely. locals recommend hitching at the traffic lights near the cemetery, as cars can pull over there, but its inconvenient for drivers. Theres also a petrol station you can try asking at, but it has traffic from both directions and a lot of people claim to be heading north.


country: AU
comment:
  Awesome! Food van permanently parked here, lots of people stopping in for a rest; easy lifts just by asking the drivers when they get out of thier cars.


country: GB
comment:
  An early start and a bit of walking from LochCarron, we waited here and got a lift after a few cars.


country: AU
comment:
  Nice wide grassy verge at this intersection, with a roadhouse across the way. Friendly locals, got a lift from the first car passing by!


country: AU
comment:
  Busy service station, lots of traffic. Got a lift from the first truck driver we approached, all the way to the coast


country: MK
comment:
  Excellent place to hitch to Tetovo, Ohrid etc.
  Get there by bus, can't remember the number unfortunately.


country: BG
comment:
  Try to hitch east somewhere around here. If all else fails, one of the guys with horse and carriage might treat you to a ride.


country: BG
comment:
  Worst place I've been in in Bulgaria when it comes to hitchhiking. Somehow nobody would take me, although the precious 100 kms or so had been very smooth.


country: BG
comment:
  Despite ample of space for drivers to pull over, hitching in the centre of this big city proved to be a bad idea.


country: BG
comment:
  In the Rhodopi mountains, hitching is likely to get you anywhere quicker than public transport. Speaking a word or two of Bulgarian would help, but I managed to have a pleasant time without much knowledge of the language as well.


country: MK
comment:
  Use this spot to hitch south along the lake. Getting out in one of the town on the way might mean you have to walk to the town's edge (never very far) to hitch on.


country: MK
comment:
  Enough space to pull over + people can see you coming. Traffic allright. Your place to go south along the highway.


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station in the direction KrakÃ³w, RzeszÃ³w. You can either walk here from the centre of Katowice or take any bus to 3 Stawy Shopping centre, which is nearby (i.e. 110, 672, 674, 910).


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station in the direction WrocÅ‚aw, Germany. You can either walk here from the centre of Katowice, or take bus 110, 672, 674, 910 from railway station and get off at Os. Paderewskiego Graniczna. Optionally you can get by any bus going to 3 Stawy Shopping Centre and walk by pedestrian bridge over motorway.


country: PL
comment:
  Petrol station on dual carriegeway direction Lodz, Warszawa. You can get here by free Tesco bus 203 from main bus station.


country: DE
comment:
  Direction North.
  200-250 Cars per Hour pass by. Only ~15% of them will enter the highway. Go there by bus (line 692 -> Mellendorf. Stop: Autobahn). That busstop is where the cars can stop for you. Busticket: 2,70â‚¬ from Hanover center. That place to start is in nature, so it's nice :) If noone picks you up, you will find a place to sleep at a construction site (there are many) in the village Weiherfeld.


country: DE
comment:
  Direction East.
  Tramp-station is directly next to the tram-station Wiesenau of line 1. The place for the cars to stop is the old, unused and closed entrance of the military barracks. tram-ticket from hanover center costs 2,10â‚¬.


country: DE
comment:
  good point to go to the north on the highway, not many cars, but friendly people, good possibility to stop and just after the traffic light, so people can see you very early


country: DE
comment:
  good point to get on the highway, many people are there, but some of them only stay in the region, so you have to ask a lot :-)


country: FR
comment:
  you really need a paper with your destination here, to go to east its a good point, because drivers can stop here (it's a little bit place there), look at your time, when there is the typical traffic jam people can better stop and need someone to talk, without traffic jam I needed an hour!


country: FR
comment:
  good point to to further out of the town, going to Reims and Metz its the right region, cars can stop and see you early because of the traffic jam, and you are entertained by the funny french drivers who don't care of any rules ;-)


country: FR
comment:
  asked the first driver who took my right up to my destination in germany :-) people can bring you here, because its just before the peage!


country: DE
comment:
  People can stop, but drive fast yet, there are different lines but mainly people are going to A6 the south.


country: IE
comment:
  Direction East or South to Dublin or Limerick, Cork. This street is part of inner city bypass and there's quite often traffic jam. Perfect spot, just make a sign. 


country: IT
comment:
  There's a little petrol station before the roundabout. People driving to the highway through the bridge will see you. Just make sure it's ok with the staff. Not a great place but you can try to get a ride at least to the service area "Paganella" 3 km north.


country: IT
comment:
  Just before the toll gates but after the "no autostop" sign. If you like risking a fine you can try. I didn't try it. Watch out: the highway office is very near.


country: FR
comment:
  You can try to get from here to Besancon etc. Close to a trucks parking place.  Don't forget to sign on the "hitchhikers' lamp" nearby.


country: PL
comment:
  I think this is a better place than the petrol station. Cars driving uphill, can stop on the verge. But it's still not a great one.


country: PL
comment:
  Also a good place. You can get there with bus "D" to the last stop. A big verge there and drivers see you from a long distance. Good for long journeys.


country: PL
comment:
  There's a bus stop just after the roundabout, where local people usually catch rides to Åosice (Losice) but you can try something longer, perhaps.


country: FR
comment:
  An on-ramp, uphill, cars go slowly and see you from a distance. Some place for them to stop but it's illegal to stand there. Direction Lyon, through highway.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Lorient or Nantes
  There is no place for the cars to stop. However, some adventurous kind persons may stop. I would advise starting or being droped on another spot if you can.


country: FR
comment:
  Directions : Lorient or Quimper/Brest
  Good place to hitchhike, cars usually go on the motorway, and can stop easily. 


country: BE
comment:
  Direction Aachen, Maastricht, Cologne
  Stay some 20-30 meters after the traffic lights, so that the drivers can see you better.
  I was told that it was a good spot. I waited 2 hours, but maybe it was not my lucky day.

  It's the entrance of the motorway so that you have all the cars from Liege passing there.


country: BE
comment:
  Direction Aachen/Germany
  No place for cars to stop, and drivers are making short trips like 10km. People here usually don't go far.


country: CH
comment:
  Not too much space, but just after customs, so speed is very low. Easy to at least get to the Mt. Blanc tunnel - Walterheck


country: DE
comment:
  I waited only 10 minutes for a ride. It's a nice place to hitchhike when you want to get to Berlin. Most of the drivers go there


country: CZ
comment:
  It's a very good place to hitchhike. Although officially there is no border between the Czech Republic and Poland cars still have to stop. It's a great time to ask for a ride. Many of the drivers go to Prague 


country: IE
comment:
  Use motorway exit for cars going towards Portlaoise. There is a petrol station nearby if you have any problems.


country: DE
comment:
  Directions : both
  No place for the cars to stop on the B20 (and they go really fast). Very few cars come from Falkenberg if you wait at the Stop sign. However, I was lucky, after 1 hour, to be taken by one.


country: DE
comment:
  Not a good place to get to the motorway.
  Better try to get to Regensburg by the road, and start from there.


country: DE
comment:
  Directions : Magdeburg, Hannover, Leipzig
  Good place for hitchhiking, with a sign on the side of the road. The gas station before is not so good, few cars go on this one.


country: PL
comment:
  Not frequented gas station. Easy to reach by metro and walking 10 minutes, but I then waited here so much and asked so many people...


country: PL
comment:
  Directions TorÃºn or LÃ³dz
  You can hitchhike directly in front of the train station, on the place of the Bus stops. People are friendly and stop quite often


country: DE
comment:
  I think this bus stop was is the best place to hitch for the 14 autobahn south to the A24, although it took 5 hours so there may be better... 


country: DE
comment:
  Do not get out here. I had to be recued by two extreamly kind local girls that brought me to the train station.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Clermont-Ferrand
  No so much people stop at this gas station... Try to reach at least the next toll (pÃ©age).


country: ES
comment:
  first car stopped after few hours! Very hot weather and no shadows around made it especially exhausting wait.


country: US
comment:
  apparently this is a common place to get from the 101 to the 5, but i got stranded here for 5 HOURS in the heat! there were plenty of cars but none would pull over. it wasn't until my friend put on her bikini top to get a tan that suddenly two middle-aged men pulled over (for obvious reasons). terrible spot. there has got to be a better way to get to the 5.


country: DE
comment:
  Good spot to go Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and so on. There's a bus stop, so one can pull over easily. I had several quick lifts there.


country: BG
comment:
  It is the best place from all the way from Dospat and the next 1-2 kilometers. But the traffic is poor.


country: BG
comment:
  It is the way to Rila Monastery. There is enough room for cars to pull over and Gas station 10 meters ahead. But often drivers are going to the near villages. It is good to catch something directly to Rila MonÐ°stÐµry.


country: BG
comment:
  From E79 you need to walk to here (150m).
  There is a bus station and is good place to hitch towards Bansko or Gotse Delchev.


country: GB
comment:
  Knutsford services.  Good for getting south, esp. to birmongham. 

   Walkable distance from knutsford train station


country: GB
comment:
  Depends where you're trying to get to

  Avoid if you're trying to get North of Manchester! - go back to Sandbach and then up.
  Ok for getting lifts into Manchester, sometimes liverpool or toward Leeds.


country: GB
comment:
  Going north over the Forth Road bridge

  not the nicest spot to wait, but decent traffic and enough space for people to stop.

  Going to Edinburgh - walk up the road and get the local bus for Â£1.80 - need exact change


country: GB
comment:
  A safe bet for getting to Edinburgh.  
  Not the heaviest traffic, but many are headed to Edinburgh. 
  Good layby for stopping.  Walking up the road a little you'll find other decent stopping points.  Also near services if the weather gets too much


country: PT
comment:
  Just take the train from Sao Bento (Porto) till Silvalde Vouga, and reach this point, but don't expect something special.;) N109 is a bit narrow road but has some luck on HHiking to Coimbra or Lisbon.


country: PT
comment:
  Just take the train from Sao Bento (Porto) till Silvalde Vouga, and reach this point, but don't expect something special.;) N109 is a bit narrow road but has some luck on HHiking to Coimbra or Lisbon.


country: PT
comment:
  If you walk 10km from Coimbra heading to Porto, just make a big sign and stand clear for the cars, there is a turn after you for cars to stop. Traffic is rather fast ;p


country: BE
comment:
  beginning of express way to Maldegem - Knokke
  Fuel station on the corner, place to stop for cars at side of the road


country: GB
comment:
  To go onto the M32: After the roundabout there is a long hard shoulder immediately after the motorway sign, with enough space for cars to stop for you.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Paris, Toulouse, Lyon
  When you arrive from south / spain /west of bordeaux, and if the driver don't go further, ask him to stop you in this gas station. It's after the exit 16 of the periherical motorway.


country: FR
comment:
  Directions : any, except arcachon.
  It's one of the 2 exit of Biscarrosse-Plage, so many people pass through here.


country: FR
comment:
  Every person that goes to Bordeaux from Sanguinet or Biscarosse pass through there. Ask the driver to let you at the roundabout (rond-point) at the exit of sanguinet.


country: FR
comment:
  Direction Paris - Center of France - Brive - Cahors
  Everybody coming from Toulouse and going to these directions can stop here. It's a Toll point (Peage). So if someone is nt going far, he can let you there. Take a sign with your direction.


country: IT
comment:
  Direction Venezia - Brescia
  Don't loose your time to go there from the center of Milano. It's dangerous, drivers go fast, and you will wait hours.


country: IT
comment:
  Direction : Ljubljana / Slovenia
  If you manage to go there (there is a train from Trieste going up there), it's a good place. Waited 1/2 hour.


country: PL
comment:
  Get to BÅ‚onie (a last stop of many buses e.x. 52,52, 59, 62, 69, 92, N32). From there walk along the road (SzubiÅ„ska), pass the gas staition (it's pointless to catch here- only local cars), go by bridge over the rail tracks and go straight for 100m. There is a perfect spot for those people going to Szubin, Å»nin or further to PoznaÅ„, WrocÅ‚aw.


country: PL
comment:
  Get to GÃ³rczyn (last stop of trams 5, 8, 14 and many buses). Then take a bus 103 to Szreniawa (aproximatelly 15-20 min from GÃ³rczyn). After getting off you can easily catch a car in the direction of Leszno, WrocÅ‚aw.


country: PL
comment:
  To get to the point you need to take one of the buses going to the station FordoÅ„ska- Wiadukt (65, 81, 33N). Then cross the bridge over Vistula river (Most FordoÅ„ski, approximatelly 800m long)and walk 500m more close to StrzyÅ¼awa. There is a bus station and a perfect spot for hitchhikers going from Bydgoszcz to ToruÅ„ and Warsaw. 


country: GB
comment:
  J20a, people will not stop for you despite very substantial on ramp. In fact, you'll get abuse and stuff chucked at you. People from Warrington are lovely.


country: GB
comment:
  Asking around at this truck station is your best bet instead of the ramps. Trucks tend to be heading South especially in the evening but there are literally a hundred rigs there later in the day, and although most are laid up you will probably be able to get a night journey. There is a Cafe (expensive) where you can chat to drivers or just walk around with a sign, which works for me. Had one of the best rides ever in the UK from here.


country: GB
comment:
  Not so great spot, on a roundabout but people will stop for you. Waited 15-20 minuets here heading NORTH. 


country: GB
comment:
  Waited a couple of minuets here SOUTH bound, complicated junction and very busy with only a few safe places to move around, ask to be dropped off in the right part. 


country: GB
comment:
  Will get a ride from here, had a few offers but not going far. It just might take a while, expect 20 minuets are more. 


country: PL
comment:
  Junction of the motorway A2 with expressway. High speed of the cars and no emergency lanes to pull over. Hitchhiking here may be dangerous.


country: BE
comment:
  you have to walk a little next to the road if coming from the roundabout.
  then you will get to a piece that you have plenty room for cars to stop. here you can go direction luik or E40


country: BE
comment:
  cars will drive very short. so pointless if you want toi go out of the city go behind the roundabout a walk of +- 10 min


country: HR
comment:
  Direction : Zagreb
  After the toll or after the border... I waited 4h during big weekend departure for summer hollydays! Zagreb is just 13km after, but people don't want to take you (funny that numerous people on hollydays told me that they have no time to pick me up!).
  If you come from Ljubljana, my advice would be that you accept to be picked up only if the driver goes to Zagreb, not just the border.


country: IE
comment:
  Spot for Galway or Limerick, in walking distance from the airport terminal. If somebody offers you a lift just to the N18 dual carriegeway go for it. You can easily hitch on the junction's sliproads.


country: IE
comment:
  Direction Tuam, Sligo, Letterkenny, Derry. There is some place to pull over near petrol station. You can get nearby by bus no. 8.


country: IE
comment:
  Direction Letterkenny, Derry. It's about 20 min. walk from Donegal Town. Emergency lane to pull over.


country: DE
comment:
  Rasthof BÃ¶rde SÃ¼d.

  Good for Berlin, but for Berlin there's also a good spot in Magdeburg.

  It might be worth to take the bus out here and walk to the service station if you want to go on the A14.


country: US
comment:
  Getting out of Arcata shouldn't take you long. Was only about 15 minutes on this corner before an old hippie picked me up... only got to Eureka though. Might want to have a sign.


country: US
comment:
  Tried for over 3 hours to get out of Coos Bay. Was getting pretty sketchy and started to get hassled by hobos. Got picked up by pure luck after dark and taken to Bandon. If you can, avoid stopping in this town too late in the day.


country: PL
comment:
  Bus stop on merge lane in the direction of Katowice, Krakow. You can get here by bus no. 70 from railway station Lodz Fabryczna.


country: PL
comment:
  Merge lane after junction with traffic lights for the direction of Bydgoszcz, Warsaw. You can get nearby by bus no. 1 or 15 direction Lelewela Petla and get off at Bydgoska-Lelewela.


country: PL
comment:
  Direction Poznan. There's emergency lane and it's not far from the traffic lights so cars don't go fast. You can get nearby by bus 1 or 15 direction Lelewela Petla and get off at Bydgoska-Lelewela.


country: UA
comment:
  Direction Ternopil' Ð¢ÐµÑ€Ð½Ð¾Ð¿Ñ–Ð»ÑŒ. You can get here by mini bus called marshrutka Ð¼Ð°Ñ€ÑˆÑ€ÑƒÑ‚ÐºÐ° 36, 68, 75 to Vynnyky Ð’Ð¸Ð½Ð½Ð¸ÐºÐ¸. From here you can also walk behind the bypass M-06 (E40). It could be better place.


country: FI
comment:
  Towards Lahti or Porvoo/Kotka/Kouvola

  In the beginning of the extra long bus stop. Because the place is not behind the motorway sign, it is legal stopping and also Finnish cars will stop. Because the road splits quickly to two main directions, having a sign is important.


country: FI
comment:
  Right before the ramp to the motorway. You will have to stand behind the small fence and there is no specially safe place for cars to stop, but the place is still ok.


country: DE
comment:
  A service station right next to the Motorway. A lot of cars taking the motorway from here. And there is even a place for them to stop.


country: FR
comment:
  direction: Cannes, Marseille
  bus till "bon voyage", follow the signs, ask at the gas station or use a sign


country: FR
comment:
  direction: Lyon, Montpellier
  place yourself at this big roundabout at the arc de triomphe with a sign. there is space for cars to stop


country: FI
comment:
  I was waiting here 6 hours :( that's bad place! better if you hitchhike "more up" (where is motorway starts)


country: HU
comment:
  At the end of Furedi utca there is a Petrol Station, near of a big supermarket. Budapest (ask the cars)


country: DE
comment:
  some strange guys let me there with my friend on the road to Prague, at midnight, in the forest... bad plan. If it happens to you, cross the bridge and walk 30minutes to WÃ¶rth, There is a metro station to Karlshrue


country: FR
comment:
  i walked 20 minutes from downtown to that spot. It was midnight and there are many clubs and prostitutes. I wrote Nantes and tried 30 minutes it didn't work, i tried with A10 and it worked. so strange place but cool to go on the highway


country: CZ
comment:
  Much better as the petrol station because you can catch the traffic from the shopping centre as well!


country: SK
comment:
  A great spot if you are going to vienna. If you are planning to go to hungary its better if you hitchhike to vienna first and from there to hungary. Its also not easy to get to this station, a long walk.


country: HU
comment:
  We were waiting there for 4 hours. Its better if you try it from the boarder if you wanna go to belgrade!


country: HR
comment:
  a gas station, you can ask people to give you a ride to the pay tolls in LuÄko, thats the start of the highway going toward Split. from there its easy, just stay in front of the pay tolls or right behind them.


country: SE
comment:
  Me and my buddy hitched from this spot twice, once to Oslo and once to Stockholm...didn't wait longer than 30mins...lots of traffic and a bus stop to pull into. 


country: ES
comment:
  I waited no longer than 30 mins, lots of traffic and a safe place to stop. I stood just on the ramp that was heading towards Bilbao/Santander/South of Spain. Its only a 15 - 20 minute walk from the bay area


country: ES
comment:
  Not a great volume of traffic coming through here, but I managed to get a lift after 30 minutes. The traffic is slow moving as it joins the road to Madrid, there's a safe spot to pull over and it's also in the shade. A good spot...


country: ES
comment:
  I hitched a ride to Salamanca from here on my way to Porto, after getting a coach from Madrid to Avila to avoid getting stuck in the big city...30 minutes wait, shade from the tree :)


country: PT
comment:
  Lots of traffic, safe place to pull over...but I waited over 2 hours for a ride...try holding  a sign for Braga, then go on from there maybe...


country: FR
comment:
  To go to Morzine, Abondance, Chatel ...

  On google, Satellite and Map view show differents road. That's because the photo view is too old


country: DE
comment:
  The gas station going south towards Frankfurt. It has a motel as well, so there are always a good amount of people passing by. We stood by the entry to the highway, waited about 20-30 minutes and got a direct ride to the airport. 


country: DE
comment:
  Trying to get out of the airport, we were going south on A3. There's always a lot of traffic but nobody seems to care to pick you up, not a single one even stopped to ask us whether this direction could be helpful. Tho a lot of cars were clearly going our direction (at least according to their license plates). Never even bother standing here, it was awful. 


country: HU
comment:
  Great hitching point towards Zalaegerszeg. 
  Located in Palin suburb of Nagykanizsa on the road E74 just before a right curve, after                    a long straight. 10m  
  after the bus stop under the tall trees. Can be reached in 25 min walking or by taking any bus that goes through Palin. Usually wait 10-20 minutes. 


country: SE
comment:
  tried to hh to eskilstuna/stockholm from here. no chance! it was winter, extremely cold and nobody wanted to stop or to take us from the petrol station. they looked very suspicious and unpleasant towards us. got only 40 km far from G. finally went back and took the train on the 2nd day :-( 


country: RO
comment:
  There is a market with a lot of moldavian people and they going instantly back to moldova. Just try it here.


country: UA
comment:
  You have to wait here fo a lift to moldova because you cant walk through the boarder. But in my case the police helped me with that!


country: UA
comment:
  Its easy to get here a lift to ukraine. A lot of turkish trucks are passing by here. If you wanna go to chisinau just ask some of the drivers. Maybe it will cost 1-2 euros.


country: IE
comment:
  GO OUT FROM DUBLIN BY M4
  Here is a really interesant place to hitch, the first car was my driver, why ? cause there is like one car every 5 minutes, and she's know that she's alone.
  Speed : 0km/h
  Traffic : really few
  Sign : Asking for next gas station


country: IE
comment:
  DIRECTION KILRUSH
  Don't walk too much cause tha car are going too fast next and can't stop anywhere, so stay near from the city
  Speed : 40km/h
  Traffic : 5 cars/min
  Sign : Kilrush


country: IE
comment:
  DIRECTION ENNIS
  quiet cool spot near from the supermarket
  Speed : 40 km/h
  Traffic : low
  Sign : Ennis


country: AT
comment:
  tehre is a park&ride and a bus stop as well. many cars passing by, no one stopped for nearly 3 hours. even when there was a short thunderstorm no one stopped


country: CZ
comment:
  Good place for hitchhiking to Brno, there is 50 km/h speed limit, due to wide roadside truck drivers can stop,  cars going very slowly and driver can see you from far. Waiting for lift was never longer than half an hour.


country: CZ
comment:
  Very good place, direction to Svitavy, Hradec Kralove or Pardubice and Sumperk and Jesenik too. Wide road and enough place to stop for drivers. Sometimes there can be parking cars near this place. Small pub across the road on the north.


country: CZ
comment:
  Next good place for hitchhiking direction to Svitavy, Pardubice, Hradec Kralove or Sumperk and Jesenik near gas station (shop,pub). You can ask drivers at gas station too.


country: CZ
comment:
  Good place near bus station, direction Svitavy, Hradec Kralove, Pardubice, Sumperk or Jesenik. Dense traffic and 50km/h speed limit - waiting was never longer than 1 hour. Some pubs and shops in village around.


country: CZ
comment:
  Place near rounabout junction (west) and gas station (east), direction East, dense traffic but many strange drivers which often ends in any small villages in the woods, better to use sign - Boskovice, Nove Mesto na Morave, Zdar nad Sazavou. Waiting there can be often longer than hour.


country: CZ
comment:
  Not so good place direction east to Prerov, Kromeriz, Zlin. Some old gas station about 600 meters south-west. Many drivers riding old cars ends in near small villages so better to use sign. Waiting can be longer than hour.


country: GB
comment:
  Large lay by in both directions as soon as the A361 starts after motorway. Easy pick up towards N.Devon and next to Tiverton Parkway station.


country: DE
comment:
  for going to A8 to Pforzheim and Stuttgart its difficult to find somebody there and it is not many traffic here, waiting time between half an hour and four houres.


country: DE
comment:
  met two guys who wanted to go to the south to freiburg, they were standing there for more then two houres


country: DE
comment:
  to go to A81 its good, many people are drivingthat way, but not too much people so they are able to stop there. Directly behind the sign for autobahn there is a small possibility to stop, (you can see on satellit), but this point is difficult to reach.


country: DE
comment:
  to go to north its the last petrol station before the A8 crosses the A81, but its not much traffic here, so prefere the resting place near Rottweil, about 50 kilometeres before that station.


country: LV
comment:
  On way to Ogre, Aizkraukle, Daugavpils, Russian border. It's a busstop. After the bus stop is a parking place, but sometimes it is full - then better to hh before busstop and after traffic lights.
  The cars have to slow down before either because of traffic lights or because of tram rails which cross the street before. Tram 7 or 9 can take you here from city centre. You can go further by bus, but many people think that starting this place and ending just in next town Salaspils is a place for prostitutes. So, don't forget your sign!


country: BG
comment:
  we got there with the microbus number 18 from the central station in Sofia. it's not a good place for hitchhiking - the main road pass through a small city. We didn't wait for a long time - just about 15minutes, but i think we had a great luck. We took this road to reach Vratsa and then Vidin. I don't advise - the main traffic to Romania pass through hiway to Bucuresti.


country: PL
comment:
  direction: Lviv, standing just outside the town a bit of traffic heads towards Ukraine maybe 30mins wait


country: MD
comment:
  direction: Odessa, If you find your bus ride from Tiraspol leaves you at the border (which is comman if your western) you can get a ride anyware along the road


country: DK
comment:
  Good spot to go to Helsingborg is this busstation 'Slotspavillonen. Reachable by busses 336, 360, 339, 703 or 91N.


country: SE
comment:
  Good spot for direction Stockholm. Two lanes though. There are many possibilities nearby; all roads here have good possibilies for cars to stop. You could even try two roundabouts further, but there they drive litle faster.


country: SE
comment:
  Jarna is a small town, so not that much traffic, but the spot is good. Ytterjarna (on the other side of the highway) has a big anthroposofic centre, a bit of a hippie place; maybe a chance to be brought here or to get a ride. At the other side of the highway is a gasstation, 5 minutes walk.


country: SE
comment:
  Good spot for direction Jonkoping. They drive quite fast here though. Take bus to 'Gamla Linkoping', and walk under the roundabout. You could also try the gasstation if you prefer that.


country: SE
comment:
  This busstop is good for directions Norrkoping, Jonkoping or Kalmar. Forgot the name of the busstop.. but most busses going out of the town will pass here. Vastervik is a bit of a holidaytown, so you might have more chance in summer on days that people go back home. Between this spot and the town are a lot of cheap supermarkets along the road where a lot of traffic out of the town goes, so i wouldnt try a busstop closer to the town.


country: SE
comment:
  All cars coming from the HH ferry pass by here. Every 20 minutes. So you could try hh here for direction Goteborg or Jonkoping. There is place for cars to stop. The scandlines cars coming from the other side of the roundabout dont have such a place to stop. 


country: AT
comment:
  Petrol station and Rasthof on the side of a viaduct, which caters to cars traveling both north towards Salzburg and south towards Villach, Lienz and Slovenia. 
  In the summer used by tourist coming back from the Adriatic, mostly families. Found it kind of difficult to get a ride south to Slovenia, as most of the people where going north. A viable option for Salzburg and Germany. 


country: DE
comment:
  Rasthof Osterfeld 

  Very good spot for hitchhiking to Berlin. Needed about 20 minutes to get a ride at 6.30 in the morning. 
  The station has an Axxe restaurant which is open non-stop and has a nice covered playground slide in which one can spend the night relatively comfortable. 


country: CH
comment:
  perfect spot if you guys want to got to zÃ¼rich....works as well if you want to go to barcelona or any place else(i know what i am talking about).just chill at the roundabout and dont get caught by swiss cops....its illegal to hitchhike there, cuz its an highway access point, but dont worry about that i never waited much longer than 5 min!! there. good luck.


country: CH
comment:
  nice spot if you want to go to kreuzlingen or konstanz. all the traffic which is passing by goes this direction. there is a big parking lot from some kind of supermarket so the car even has a nice plaxce to stop


country: DE
comment:
  ppl told me that this is then spot to hh if you want to get out of konstanz. i never tried it but all of my hh-friends told that this is a goog spot.....you ve a gas station to ask ppl


country: CH
comment:
  if you want to get to wil, wattwill or just out of "toggenburg" there is your spot. allways a lot of cars are passing by which will take you for sure at least to the next train station. if not.....there is a bus station 


country: CH
comment:
  dont try it here.... all of the traffic is passing by a nother street (bundesstraÃŸe) and if not, you can wait for quite a long time until someone stops. in this case this nice person just drives up to the next village.....so if you r stuck in here pray or take the train


country: GB
comment:
  A layby on the A9 direction Glasgow. Great spot, 15 min walk from the traffic circle. Better to hitchhike here then in the petrol station.


country: CA
comment:
  The gas station at Mt Robson Provincial parc can potentially be a good spot for getting far distances (to the west). Always a lot of people that stay there several days, so be patient!


country: CA
comment:
  every 15-60 minutes someone to the north (depending on the season). By far most of the people have to be in Kitwanga just at the other side of the bridge. to mention: hitchhiking next to a traffic sign "hitchhiking: is it worth the risk"


country: CA
comment:
  Pretty hard, get out of the village, so you avoid locals. A lot of people only go to the mines (a few km from Dawson) very early in the morning. 


country: CA
comment:
  Pretty well place to get up north. People stop more easely because they know that you are a backpacker. It's also the last gaz station for several 100 of km. Count in a few hours anyway.


country: CA
comment:
  Very calm road, but this is probably the best place to go to fredericton from Fundy National Park. Camping next to it!


country: FR
comment:
  very dangerous, had to run away, it's an old parking lot with many gay men masturbating and doing other things, don't go there!


country: DE
comment:
  looks like a good spot, cuz all the traffic which leaves the island has to pass this (perfect)spot. but somehow in almost 2 hours just a lady stopt. 


country: IT
comment:
  For heading west there is a gas station here that is open 24 hours. Zoom in and check out the satellite view. Directly north of the station there is the entrance to the highway that catches traffic coming through the station as well as from the main road.  Just stand at this point with a sign for Varazze or Savona and get off at any big service station along the way.  If you are downtown, to get to the gas station get on bus no 1 and just say to the driver "Autostrade Genova Ovest" or hand him a note. I had poor luck after 6pm (which is why the 24 hours station was handy) but caught a ride quickly in the morning.  Don't make a sign for too far west or the locals will think you're crazy.  Baby steps.  Good luck!


country: IT
comment:
  Hitchhiking in Italy can be a pain, but Milano is perhaps the worst.  There are toll booths here where every single car heading southwest must slow to a crawl or stop entirely.  I know it's a hike, but sack up because Italians are not sympathetic to hitching. Take the metro to the most southern stop and then follow roads until there are no more roads. Walk through fields if you have to. Stand in the small safe area between two toll lanes with a sign (for Genova or where ever)and 100% of traffic will not only see you, but already be slowing down. I got to the toll from the note I've added just north of here. Once at the tolls I caught a ride in about 10 minutes.


country: IT
comment:
  If you can get to this place then all traffic passing will be at least getting on the highway going south.  Waited 2 hours for a ride to the nearby toll booths and only 10 minutes from there onward. The only real perk to this place is the nearby auto-grill with water and bathrooms (just south) and the surrounding fields offering a place to crash for the night if you don't find a ride.


country: BE
comment:
  Hitch Hiking Spot at the red light under the bridge, right before the turning onto the motorway ramp in direction of Paris / Mons / Charleroi - Take tram 4 to Stalle terminus, then walk to Motorway. You can ask any car to take you to the next petrol station, which is 2km further south


country: BE
comment:
  At red light on rue du Belliard, Towards Leuven / Liege / Aachen ( E40 ). At the end of the road the cars take the tunnel. Make sure the car you take goes at least till Leuven. If they do and you go further, ask them to put you off at the petrol station on the motorway right after the split to Leuven. They can join back Leuven through small road from the petrol station.


country: AR
comment:
  Desde aquÃ­ se pude viajar a Catamarca se llega en colectivo de la linea 12 (BÂº Autonomia). Justo antes hay una lomada por lo que los vehÃ­culos circulan despacio.


country: AR
comment:
  Desde aquÃ­ se puede llegar hasta Termas de Rio Hondo o Tucuman Por Ruta 9. No hay linea urbana para llegar hasta este lugar


country: US
comment:
  From my experience, all of Oregon and Northern Cali is very good for hitching.  About the middle of Cali gets sketchy however.


country: MW
comment:
  Hitching is a little different in Malawi.  You are expected to pay a little bit towards gas, but other then that, hitching is a very culturally exceptable way to get around.


country: US
comment:
  Morro Bay is a beautiful spot but I had a terrible time trying to hitch there.  Drivers where extremely rude, flipping me off, yelling at me and taking pictures of me as they drove by!


country: US
comment:
  Both times I've hitched through Montana I've had excellent rides!  Cowboys always pick me up and tell me interesting tips about raising horses and buffalo!


country: US
comment:
  I was scared out of my mind by crazy people on meth on the highway outside of Eureka!  Two different nuts ran up to me to yell in my face!  It was frightening.


country: IE
comment:
  Just past the bus stops. Got a lift here after about 2 minutes at 10.30pm in the rain, im sure it was just luck but its not a bad spot. traffic moves slowly.


country: GB
comment:
  5 mninutes walk from the trainstation, infront of Plas Derwen. Didnt have to wait long for a lift to Newport.


country: RU
comment:
  Get here with minibus #1122 from the central train station. Get out at stop Puteprovod, good for hitching towards Omsk, Tyomen


country: RU
comment:
  Perfect spot to hitch out of town direction M18. From train station, trolleybus #1 or #8, get out at the first roundabout (you see a big supermarket on the other side of the street)


country: BG
comment:
  A very good petrol station directly before the highway leaves Varna southwards. A Busstop is just next to it e.g. Tollibus 88.


country: HU
comment:
  Bus station next to a crossing so drivers from two directions have enough time seeing you holding your sign for a city in the south (BerettyÃ³Ãºjfalu is the next one) or Romania. Reachable by bus. The modern busses have screens that show the bus running on a map. Easy to orientate and to figure out the right direction 


country: SK
comment:
  To Roszana:

  Cars drive a little bit too fast, but there is enough space to stop them at this bus station (which is enough big).
  Take the tramway to the American steel manufactury.


country: TR
comment:
  it took us only about 15 min. to get a ride. This spot is definetlz a fast way to get out of Istanbul.


country: GR
comment:
  Direction West / Patra
  Good place to be for the people to stop. Unfortunately, people don't trust hhikers and usually make small distances : I waited 3 hours and made 15 km.
  Take water with you, and hat, waiting under the sun is hard.


country: GR
comment:
  Direction Patra / Athens
  Before the traffic lights, a small rocky parallel road is the place to hitchhike.
  Unless it's difficult to stop there, greek people do it (they don't fear breaking the rules on the road). 


country: GR
comment:
  Direction south / Pyrgos / Kalamata
  Take the bus number 6, ask the driver or someone to stop you at "Tofalos Stadium"
  Good place, many cars, place to stop.


country: GR
comment:
  Direction Sparti
  You can wait a long time here, but it is the better place to go to Sparti, because everyone going there must pass at this spot.


country: NO
comment:
  This is a short walk from Nordstrand station, which is one stop from Central on the train (25kr). There's a traffic light and a driveway to pull over in. I waited less than a minute here.


country: FR
comment:
  To everywhere: Rouen, Caen, Paris.
  Probably not the best position, but many cars go out of the city from this road, there is a traffic light before and a parking place aside, so if they see you when waiting at the traffic light then they can easily stop at the parking. Lot of people work in Le Havre harbour, so they can bring you to Pont de Normandie direction Caen.


country: FR
comment:
  Not as many cars as on the road to Pontorson but many people take this one to reach Avranches and the highway to Caen. You can start trying already from the cross where this road starts, but a good place is this one, car can easily stop here.


country: FR
comment:
  easy hitch hiking to Avranches, space for stopping...this is the direct straight road to Avranches, but some drivers even from here might bring you on the slower coastal road with more panoramic views just to let you see it :) and they didn't plan to before!


country: LT
datetime: 2006-10-14 00:00:00.000000
comment:
  (while there were still border checks) just walk after the border and wait no more than 5 minutes, a car will stop (good space aside to stop)
  Good for > Bauska, Riga, Tallinn (E67)

  (maybe also on the opposite direction to Panevezys and Vilnius but haven't tried myself)


country: DE
comment:
  direction Munich; gas station isn't there any more, but still the best place to stand at for this direction


country: DE
comment:
  good spot to get out of the center, to the gas station behind "Pragsattel" (north onto A81 from there)


country: FR
comment:
  If your ride is heading to Montpellier or Nimes and you are going further just grab a sign and have them drop you at this massive toll station. Stand in between some slow moving lanes and someone will take pity on you in a matter of minutes.


country: FR
comment:
  Same as the other two. Bon Voyage bus stop. But zoom in on satelite view and look at this marker. If you are heading West just walk a ways next to the on-ramp (past the overpass) and youÂ´ll see a great spot where there is a perfect shoulder for cars to pull off for you.


country: BE
comment:
  iÂ´m not sure if itÂ´s the exact position, but somewhere around here (but on the motorway)is the last service station on the motorway before france. many trucks heading to the uk via eurotunnel do their last stop here before entering the train. use a sign or ask drivers (truckers should be better, most cars are full), try to be early,itÂ´s less traffic in the evening and itÂ´s not nice to stand there when itÂ´s dark. but when itÂ´s not to late, you should manage it to get a quick ride to the uk, probaly through the tunnel. trucks donÂ´t have to pay for a second driver, but be sure having your passport with you and donÂ´t carry any illegal shit!


country: TR
comment:
  There is the last shop before the boarder. So just ask the truck drivers or try it at the traffic light!


country: TR
comment:
  There are just Trucks but they are really happy about kompany! The most of them are going to ankara.


country: DE
comment:
  Direkt vor der GaststÃ¤tte "Zur GÃ¼nen Wiese" an der Einfahrt zur Papierfabrik in Richtung Bad Schandau, Pirna


country: TR
comment:
  A iranian truck dropped me here at is was quite easy to get a lift. There is enough space for cars or even for trucks to stop!


country: CZ
comment:
  I think good spot to hitchhike to Vienna. At least I did it. Take tram 2 and go to stop ModÅ™ice, TyrÅ¡ova. There is gas station or little futher also place for cars to stop.


country: BE
comment:
  service station, heavy traffic but perfect spot for cars to stop at the entrance to the motorway. 1 minute waiting time to go to direction gent/brugge, i even had the choice between to cars


country: DE
comment:
  lot of traffic, but not to many drivers stop. maybe better in the late afternoon. there is an interchange after several kilometers, so you have the oportunities to go east, west, or north. many drivers are heading to france!


country: ES
comment:
  Vilar Formoso!!!
  We walked from the train station to the frontier. Just between the roundabout and the frontier there are  bars, parking... good place to ask people !


country: RU
comment:
  Worst hitchhiking spot in Russia? 2 hitchhikers waited here 7 hours on a Tuesday morning in July 2009.


country: DE
comment:
  if you go to hamburg you can get a lift from there, it takes about 30 min to get a ride. theres a metro station just few meters from the spot U Scharnweberstr


country: RU
comment:
  Hitchhiking spot just behind a DPS police post. Best chances are if you hitch a ride some 200-300m behind the police officers


country: GB
comment:
  Good for heading North or South on the A1. Not that much traffic through this services but it's the safest spot. Average wait about an hour


country: GB
comment:
  Used this place a few times for heading North or South on the A1. Generally long waits but quiet and safe


country: EE
comment:
  To Tartu. Take tram n.4 from the city center almost to the end, go down and walk, in the direction of the airport (straight-straight-straight) )...


country: LV
comment:
  I was hitch hiking from a place nearby here to go to Talsi, passing by Jurmala. From the central bus station next to the big market, I caught bus 43, to Skulta. I am not sure where it drop me off, but from there I walked a while and got a ride. Inform the bus-driver you want to get off at the last stop, otherwise he drives you back to the center!


country: GB
comment:
  The spot i use for M5 Northbound, the other spot at the start of the M32 (see map) is only good for M4 eastbound. Not the best spot in the world but there's a little road to pull in on just after the roundabout.


country: GB
comment:
  I use this for M6 Southbound, there's a petrol station and a Macdonald. At the exit from the petrol station people from the road and the petrol station can see you. There's a bus stop to pull in at just after as well. Also there's a pedestrian crossing where traffic stops so they can get a good look at you and (hopefully) see that you look nice!


country: MY
comment:
  Kuala Lumpur is very easy city to hitchhike in, there is not so many spots where people can pull over but you can use the bus stops in the city. 


country: SK
comment:
  It used to be a very good place, nowadays it's little bit worse, but lot of cars are driving that road, also lot of space for a car to stop and it's before the highway to the north of Slovakia (there also use to be lot of hitchhikers).


country: SK
comment:
  The former toll house is an ideal place for hitchhiking to the direction of Vienna because cars are not going too fast here. Unfortunately you have to walk for about 3/4 an hour to this place from the nearest bus/tramstop.


country: SK
comment:
  This small but enough long area seems to me like a better choice than the gas station behind it. And it proved itself many times.


country: DE
comment:
  Because it seemed too difficult to get a ride at the habour, we went here. In generell roundabouts are very effectiv, but not so here! 


country: SE
comment:
  On the ferry you can ask people in the cars, got at once a ride to rodby. Many people (swedens) go to germany to buy as much beer as there is any space in their cars!


country: BG
comment:
  To this place you can go with bus 58 from Sofia. You must get down in first station in Vladaia and then you go to Pernisko shose street.


country: BG
comment:
  If you are in Tchernomorets this place is verry bad for hh to sout coast, but this is the only one that is near.


country: PL
comment:
  Sandomierz, Lublin.
  It's a bar called 'Meksyk' and there is a tram station with the same name. You have to take a tram nr 15 or 22. 
  Place is very good, there is a parking so cars have place to stop, and they are not going so fast because of the curve and quite traffic (a lot of cars!). To catch something to Lublin with a card taking me usually less than 30 min. 


country: PL
comment:
  Road to KrakÃ³w, Sandomierz and Kielce. There is a little parking just after crossing two big streets and lights. Traffic is quite big, but cars don't want to stop so much (especially cars to near KraÅ›nik with plate 'LKR'). To catch a car to KrakÃ³w taking me usually 40-60 min but I have to go sometimes with stop in KraÅ›nik.


country: PL
comment:
  Road to Lublin and Krasnik. Very good place, its just after the crossing and there is a little place to stop because of graveyard (but its not scary or something :)). There are a lot of cars to Lublin (plate - LU, LUB), Krasnik (LKR) and sensless 'local' cars (TSU). Catching something to Lublin taking me usually less than 20 minutes (but sometimes is a car to Krasnik).


country: BE
comment:
  We had to wait a little bit but, suddenly someone who was getting gas at the gas station approached us an took us with him. 


country: GR
comment:
  Both directions (Chania or Rethymno)
  Definitely not a good spot :
  1/greek people are suspicious and don't stop often
  2/ this road is the more dangerous of all greece, and it's even more dangerous to make the cars stoping here
  Try to avoid people that would let you at this spot (if they go to Kalyves, refuse gently).


country: GR
comment:
  Good point for Boat hitching. It is a crossing point between East Mediteranean and Turkey/Cyprus/Middle Orient
  Follow the signs : "Marina/Î»Î·Î¼Î±Î½Î¹" and you can ask for a ride to the sailor. You can wait some days depending on the period of the year


country: DE
comment:
  especially on workdays in the morning at lot of workers heading to berlin, so this is a good place to hitch. no problem to berlin, much more harder to warsaw or frankfurt/oder


country: DE
comment:
  nobody can or will stop here, especially when the traffic light is switched of, difficult to hitch away from here because not enough space to stop for cars


country: BE
comment:
  For direction Charleroi, Mons, Paris.
  there is a petrol station, you can stand in front where cars can stop. Cars are slowing down here because of a trafficlight. Not so sure if it is a good spot but i was picked up right away. You can take bus direction Belgrade or Flawinne I think, but step out before it goes off the big road, several 100  meters before the gasstation.


country: DE
comment:
  Stood her for direction Fehmarn/Copenhagen.
  Cars for many directions passing here. But a safe spot, cars can stop here at this busstop. Took me a while but it worked. Maybe a good spot on sunny days when people go for a day off to Fehmarn.


country: DE
comment:
  The Aral gasstation just before the bridge to Fehmarn. I think it's a good one. Many people go to Fehmarn for holidays or shopping and not to the ferry. If you got a ride from someone like that, ask to get off at the aral gasstation. There hh for a ride to the ferry. Not so much traffic at this gasstation, but for these few kilometres to the ferry, people dare to take a hher.


country: DE
comment:
  all cars coming from Oldenburg i.H. going to Fehmarn pass by here. But there's few space for cars to stop. 


country: NL
comment:
  At a bustop. Stood here to go to the beach. Good spot when the Amsterdam people go to the seaside on a sunny day. But a good spot for direction ZW, W, N anyway. You can take a hh break at the westerpark as well.


country: DK
comment:
  gasstation. Last  time leaving Copenhagen i wrote Koge on the cardboard, but asked to get off here. Saved me waiting time in Cph. Not always much traffic, depends on time of the day/year.


country: SE
comment:
  Big service point with gasstaion, hamburgerplaces hotel etc, but not a good spot to stand at the exit. Gasstion is not so big, and was not so busy when i was there. Walk to the highway and try the ramp instead.


country: SE
comment:
  Many cars passing for going S or E. But it's at the big amusement parc Liseberg; there is constantly taxi's stopping here, and then cars can't stop. 
  Anyone a good spot for going south or east?


country: SE
comment:
  made a mistake standing here for Jonkoping, cars are led over highway E20 and then directly to road 40. So senseless to stand here.


country: SE
comment:
  direction Norrkoping. Nice big busstop.
  Some minutes walking up north there at the next big crossroads there is a little gasstation, might be an option too.


country: DE
comment:
  Rasthof Breisgau
  (just northern direction)
  It takes some time to reach this place, when you come from the city-centre, but its a great place to hitch-hike. Take busses 33 or 35 to "Im MaierbrÃ¼hl" and then follow "MengenerstraÃŸe" in the direction of Mengen (1,5 km). 


country: RU
comment:
  Good spot at the crossin for hitching towards Kazan, best is to walk up the hill to here from Kugesi. Traffic is pretty fast.


country: TR
comment:
  All directions.
  Only way out of the city, so every car leaving Marmaris should pass here.
  You can go by foot, following the signs for "Mugla"


country: TR
comment:
  Directions : Izmir/Istanbul or Mugla/South
  Entrance of the motorway (follow the green signs with "Izmir"
  20min by foot from the city center.
  Big parking before the entrance of the motorway, easy to stop here.


country: GB
comment:
  There's a pull-off on the highway here. Great spot to get South or East. Make sure your sign says which one though - mine said Edinburgh Please, and I got a ride within 15 minutes. Seen lots of hitchers at this spot and they always get picked up. Stand a bit before the spot where the road widens and people should have heaps of time to pull over.


country: GB
comment:
  Penrith Road.

  Worked quite well. There's enough space to pull over. There is also a fuelling station nearby, on the other side of the road.


country: GB
comment:
  Not the best place. Cars have to stop on the hard shoulder after the motorway sign which is probably illegal. It worked anyway.


country: GB
comment:
  Yep, the garage is the last decent spot for miles. I found out the hard way and walked about 4 miles down the narrow road before finding another wide bit where someone could pick me up. There's a city bus that stops here, so it's not hard to get to from Edinburgh.


country: GB
comment:
  Random country bus stop: The first decent pull-off after the garage. Took me about 40 min to hike, but there was another hitchhiker down the road, so had no choice really. Crap spot, but still got a ride. If you find yourself here, maybe try the P stop a few yards down the road.


country: GB
comment:
  Plenty of decent spots along this road out of Fort William. I didn't wait long at all. Rides in the highlands were generally short distances, but also short waits in between. Friendly folk up here.


country: GB
comment:
  Getting out of Oban wasn't a problem. Can't remember excactly where the spot was, but anywhere just out of town should be easy.


country: AU
comment:
  This is a good spot for getting south. Good wide pull-off. Lots of traffic. Catch the train from Perth to Mandurah to make life easier. There are some better spots further down as well.


country: AU
comment:
  Great spot with wide pull-out. Hitched to Albany from here many times. Only about a k's walk from Armadale train station.


country: AU
comment:
  Truck stop here to plead for rides if you get stuck in Karratha. I hope you don't. Still, we managed to get 6 of us and a band's-worth of music gear to Broome over the course of an afternoon!


country: AU
comment:
  Big truck stop where you can ask people for a ride. In the late afternoon, we managed to get 3 of us a ride with some truckies for the 10-hour slog to Broome.


country: AU
comment:
  Try this burger joint/caravan park for people heading south. Worked for me, but you might want to head a bit further out of town.


country: AU
comment:
  Hitching anywhere in this area is easy. I always pick people up hitching in this spot in the middle of town in Byron Bay. You can seriously get anywhere you want around here. Even tiny obscure places.


country: FR
comment:
  ...just don't try to get a ride on the wrong side of the road... :S took me 4 hours... stoopid Australian!


country: CA
comment:
  Tried asking people for rides at this big gas station, but they threatened to call the police on us. Still managed to sneakily get a ride though ;) 


country: CA
comment:
  Anyone will give you a ride on Salt Spring. We got one within about 5 minutes, and they ended up taking us swimming at a beautiful beach on the way to Ganges! That's just the kind of place it is :)


country: CA
comment:
  More scenic than the main highway, but less traffic. Took us quite a bit longer than it should have. At least the berries on the side of the road were in season!


country: US
comment:
  Onramp heading south. Waited here just in front of the "No Hitchhiking" sign and got a ride within about 20 minutes.


country: US
comment:
  Good hitching along this road. Heading to the coast, we got picked up in about 30 seconds. Shortest wait ever! Is it luck?


country: US
comment:
  Big parking area on the edge of town. Had a loooong walk to get out of the city though. Plenty of offers here, but all short distances. On the 101, though, my advice is take what you can get!! After a couple of hours, we settled on one that took us 2 miles :P


country: US
comment:
  A lovely little gas station with a nice coffee shop next door where the eccentric pump attendant (who lives in a house across the road with a massive WORLD PEACE sign on the roof) blows giant bubbles and keeps you entertained while you wait for your ride :) Quite a nice interlude on the highway of hitchhiking hardship!


country: US
comment:
  Rubbish. Absolutely pointless trying to hitch out of this one-horse town. After 5 hours, we took the bus instead.


country: US
comment:
  Wasn't too hard hitching out of Bandon - especially considering it was 7am and foggy as hell. If you get a ride, try to make sure it gets you past Port Orford though.


country: US
comment:
  Gas stations in Oregon are usually no good, as they all have pump-attendants, who can be very grumpy and call the police on you. Don't bother. I'd recommend catching a bus out of Brookings, as it's a long walk to any hitching spots.


country: US
comment:
  Not bad actually! I was on my way to the the reggae festival and had a sign that said "REGGAE", and got picked up before I'd even found a hitching spot. People around here seem pretty cool. (with the exception of the meth-heads!)


country: AU
comment:
  Good spot to get to Hobart. The road widens enough for someone to pull over. Also hitched to the airport from here. Didn't take very long at all.


country: AU
comment:
  There's a good wide bit of gravel here for people to pull off into heading north. Didn't have a problem hitching out of Margs.


country: IT
comment:
  Best place for going north towards Padova. Take the bus to stop Bentivoglio Z. i. Barche and then walk on Via Sammarina for 500 m, then turn right.


country: DE
comment:
  Rest area just behind the exit from the motorway (also indicated on the sign on the motorway).

  There's a big parking area, a hotel, a restaurant and a petrol station.
  On the other side of the road there is a bus stop (at the side where cars drive towards the motorway).

  Much local traffic, many drivers stop for the night instead of going further.

  Getting a lift into the direction of Stuttgart works.
  But into direction of Munich there's almost nobody.

  Hitching to the city of Ulm should work, judging by the many number plates with UL or NU.


country: GB
comment:
  Sliproad roundabout with wide pulloff. Waited here about 20 minutes before getting a ride south. Helps to have a sign.


country: GB
comment:
  Slip road onto M6- also a good place to get rides south. Even though it's north of Carlisle, there's still a lot of traffic. And a wide shoulder for people to pull off.


country: GB
comment:
  The only wide pull-off to get down the A429 (cotswolds). Folk not as friendly as in Scotland, but you should be able to get a ride here.


country: CH
comment:
  Gas-station from Shell. the best place for direction Wil, ZÃ¼rich, Rapperswil. no more than 10 minute.


country: CH
comment:
  perfeckt hitchhikerplace to going in the monutains. direction Wattwil, Lichtensteig, Rapperswil, Wildhaus. only this side the street are good place. normal are 2 minute


country: IT
comment:
  Get off in Aquilinia, walk towards the second stop, hitch there. Good to have a sign. Average waiting time 45 minutes.


country: TR
comment:
  If you arrived here, from Istanbul, it is probably because you followed what it was told on the wiki page (Train to Gebze, 1,5TL). This is not a really good place to hh. It seems like a motorway, but it's not. Nothing is lost : I would advice to take a minibus to the O4 Motorway, about 4km away. There you will probably have more chances, as evryone going east takes this road.


country: SI
comment:
  Probably best to walk towards this spot. You know you're there if you are standing on a bus stop and you can see a yellow sign that says 'Ljubljana-left', 'Olmo-straight', 'some street-right'. If you want to get to Trieste it's better to have a sign because most of the cars are going towards Ljubljana. You can also ask for a ride to the first or second petrol station on the highway and ask drivers who stop there to give you a lift (it worked for us once, when it was really late). This spot is well lit so it's doable to hitch hike from there after dark. 


country: SE
comment:
  I tried hitching from here at about 10:00am on a Friday morning.  I got offered three rides to MalmÃ¶ within about 15 minutes (I rejected the first two because I was trying to get to KÃ¸benhavn, and didn't think MalmÃ¶ would help much at first).


country: US
comment:
  Hitching in/out of Yosemite: Camp 4 is where you want to be. Popular hitching spot, and sometimes crowded. Be prepared to wait in line! Can get anywhere from here- out of the park, or up to Tuolumne Meadows.


country: AT
comment:
  It can be excellent place but I advise to use sign like A2-SOUTH, A2-SUD. We have done it with my girlfriend and 2 young Italian women stopped :) Some Czech drivers going to south during summer can stop, but they often have only 1 seat free. Try to get over Wien at any rate, hitchhiking there can be a problem!


country: CZ
comment:
  Average-good place near D1 highway, useful for hitchhiking to Brno or Prague. High traffic density at working days. Better to use sign like 'D1-Brno' or 'D1-Praha(Prague)'. Gas station and supermarket on the south.


country: CZ
comment:
  Good place near pub, motel, parking place and bus stop towards Sumperk, Mohelnice, Olomouc, Svitavy, but better to use sign. A lot of friendly drivers, especially during summer holidays. But in this time there is a lot of moving pedestrians and bikers on the roadside.


country: CZ
comment:
  Good place near gas station towards Nove Mesto na Morave and Zdar nad Sazavou. Traffic density could be better but waiting wasn't longer than half an hour.


country: NL
comment:
  Tried to get a ride to Ramsdonskeveer for three hours. (2 in the afternoon 1 in the morning) I ended up walking.


country: SE
comment:
  A very good spot for hitching to South. Got a ride in 10 mins. ThereÂ´s a big drive in for the cars to pull into.


country: NO
comment:
  Good spot for Southward traffic with plenty of place for the cars to stop. Getting a ride took long though.


country: NO
comment:
  Southward traffic. Two hours to get a ride, hardly any space for cars to stop. Avoid it if you can. Try the other spot in Sarpsborg.


country: NO
comment:
  Continous traffic, slowly driving cars. It's easy to get a ride even to Malmo! The place is hard to approach as it surrounded with a fence.


country: KR
comment:
  In South Korea usually nobody's hitch-hiking and it's not common at all! Still people can pick you up out of curiosity and also because they are really very helpful. You can try, but don't be surprised if nobody stops.


country: ME
comment:
  The whole coast line of Montenegro is a nice place for hitch-hiking. Not a problem at all...Even if nobody stops for a long time, there are buses passing by and you can try to negotiate for the price :)


country: SC
comment:
  Hitch-hiking is a popular way of transportation on Mahe Island. Locals do it if they don't want to walk from school or work back to home. Try it :)


country: CA
comment:
  Try to not get stuck here. The shoulders are wide, but it's right on the highway, and cars are wooshing by 100km/h. There is a small cafe and restaurant + a garage, but the only people who stop there are locals, who usually won't bother to pick you up. I waited 4 hours (!) there, until a nice granny working there took pitty on me and took me 20 miles up the road to Blind river... So 20 miles / 4 hours, do the math.


country: CA
comment:
  For heading west on the Trans-Canada. Stand 15 meters before the entrance to the motel. Wide shoulders, and people drive slowly through the town and towards the curve. Has very bad reputation, yet I got a ride there in 15 minutes, all the way to Sault St Marie. Started hitchhiking 15:00, with a big sign.


country: FR
comment:
  For hitchhiking both towards Caen and Paris. Good point if you can't get to the highway outside town. Stand on the point where the intersection merges with the highway. Wide shoulders = easy to pull over. Drivers come from the intersection and the roundabout, so not driving to fast. Started 9:30, held a big sign, got a lot of sympathy until picked up 50 minutes later, a straight ride to Caen.


country: FR
comment:
  Seems to be a good alternative to the roundabout at L'Arc de Triumph - slow traffic, traffic lights, wide shoulders - but it's horrible. We broke down eventually and took a bus to a better spot outside town (Aix-en-Provance). It's just not very freaquently used, compared to L'Arc (which also sucks as a hitchhiking point, for other reasons). However, when we were there (6.2009) there were road construction that made it difficult, maybe it's better now. Check at your own risk.


country: FR
comment:
  Seems like a good spot to hitchhike north to Avignon, Lyon or Paris - wide shoulders, cars taking the intersection slowely... But we waited for 2 hours and eventually gave up and changed our spot to the northern exit from Aix.


country: FR
comment:
  If you can get a lift to here, it's a good point to leave Grenoble towards Valence or Lyon (or as a last stop before getting into Grenoble). It's a toll, just position yourself next to the barriers with a big sign - make sure it's ok with the inspectors.


country: FR
comment:
  For hitchhiking outside of L'lil-Rousse eastward, tp Bastia or Ponte-Leccia. Stand infront of the entrance to the camping. Cars go by relatively fast, and it's difficult to stop - but we scored a ride in 10 minutes. Just goes to show that if you're a girl, or having a girl with you, then spots rankings aren't that relevant for you, you'll do fine with a big smile ;)


country: FR
comment:
  Good spot for hitchhiking to Bastia. go past the bridge, take left at the fork, pass the first building to reach a parking lot entrance. Wide shoulders next to a small road, right after a bridge, so people drive slowly and have no difficulties to stop. 30 minutes waiting, with thumb in the air.


country: FR
comment:
  To get to Calenzana, and save yourself 8 km walk on a sometimes dangerous road. Just position yourself at the southern exit from the roundabout towards Calenzana. Beware though, it's a risk, there is not a lot of traffic at all.


country: US
comment:
  An excellent point to get dropped off if you can't make it all the way to Thunder Bay or Sault St Marie. There are two possible points: 1) An A&W shop at the eastern end, good for private cars, or 2) a donnut shop at the western end of town, which is a very popular truckers' stop. You can stand next to the exit to the high way, or just approach and ask, it's that easy.


country: CA
comment:
  For hitchhiking westward on the Trans Canada, it's as good as it gets in Thunder Bay... Not brilliant, but the only place on the way out of town where you get enough shoulders for cars to conviniently pull over. It's only a 10 meters strech, so pay attention: it is after the traffic light, right in front of the Canadian Tire. As a bonus, the Canadian Tire gardening shed is out in the open, they just clear it before it closes on 22:00, then you can stay there for the night... Especially handy for the rainy weather of Thunder Bay - they don't call it Thunder Bay for nothing!


country: CA
comment:
  Terrible. Waited 2 and a half hours in the rain, no one stopped. There are acouple of road stops and restaurants, but they sit right on the highway, which is a straight strech, so most vhicles woosh by like wind. I never got a ride standing next to the road, it was when I gave up and retreated to one of the coffee stops that a trucker spotted my sign, which I wouldn't count on. Conclusion: always carry your sign visible, you'd never know!


country: CA
comment:
  For hitchhiking out of Winnipeg westward. Cars go by fast, but there is a traffic light there, so if they don't stop they at least slow down, and wide shoulders. Took me one hour with a sign


country: CA
comment:
  Good spot to go west from Medicine Hat. Right past the coffee stops, and after traffic lights, uphill, with wide shoulders. Took me 15 minutes with a sign.


country: CA
comment:
  Get to the last set of traffic lights on the no 1 road (The Trans-Canada road) going west from Calgary, just facing the Canada Olympic Park. Walk another 200 meters to the point where it splits, and stand between the road going straight (road no. 1) and the road going right. You're trying to catch a ride on road no. 1. A little spooky, but took me 15 minutes only with a big sign.


country: CA
comment:
  To hitchhike westward from Canmore. Get down to the point where the intersection connects to the Trans-Canada (road no. 1), there you'll find a short strech where cars can pull off. Your best bet is in the morning, when all the people who are going to work in the west (maiely Banff) leave Canmore through this exit. Might only get you as far as Banff, but at least you'll be past the entrance, and riding with someone who works inside will rid you from paying entrance fee.


country: CA
comment:
  To hitchhike to Toronto, get the train at Veldome/Lucien-L'Allier (where the Metro meets the train, you can use any other station on that line) and head to Dorion. Once there get to the 20 highway that passes south of the rail through the town, to the last set of traffic light. Wide shoulders, slow and freaquent traffic, only problen is that big vehicles are forbiden from stopping. Took me 30 minutes with a sign, as from 11:30 am.


country: CA
comment:
  Although a popular stop on the Montreal-Toronto way, the spot is straight on the highway and cars woosh by in insane speeds. However, long acceleration strech and wide shoulders, and one of the bussiest roads for trucks in North America! For hitchhiking to Toronto, position yourself by the highway itself with the intersection entrance on your left, so you're seen from both roads. Take caution though! Got a ride, from a truck, within 15 minutes, all the way to Toronto. Used a sign. Thanks Ross!


country: BE
comment:
  a la sortie du rond point du Blokry, sur le boulevard de Lauzelle. Il y a un espace pour s'arrÃªter. Pour aller en direction d'Ottignies


country: CH
comment:
  At his suggestion, my previous driver dropped me off here.  My destination was Lyon, but I had to signs:  Lyon and Geneva.  Got a ride in about 10 minutes - the wait was probably longer than it should have been, but the drivers had seen me digging in the dumpster for chocolate!  They threw away 60 or 70 euros worth of amazing food in the dumpster, so I would suggest geting some 'expired' chocolate to give your driver... just wash the outside wrapper :)


country: DE
comment:
  a busstop on the mainroad to the direction of the on-ramp of the motorway. but many cars go straight to Bernkastel-Kues. So it is a good idea to write a sign. Or maybe walk to the highway on ramp.


country: DE
comment:
  This service station is most of the time nearly empty, this is why you can expect waiting times between 30 and 90 minutes.


country: DE
comment:
  good for Singen, Freiburg, Stuttgart and everything north.

  good place, because there are many cars and it's easy for them to stop.
  only bad thing is how to get here ;)

  If you want to go far north, be sure to have a sign with "S" for Stuttgart on it.

  last time i waited 2 minutes *lucky*


country: DE
comment:
  This place is perfect to go to Freiburg, Konstanz, Singen, maybe ZÃ¼rich.
  not good for going northwards.

  You can ask at the parking place, or stand on the broad on-ramp to or from the Autobahn (forbidden).


country: AU
comment:
  Easy spot for getting to Pemberton. OK spot for hitching north (to Perth). A bit slower for getting south toward Albany depending on the day.


country: DE
comment:
  South (to Prague) Although the traffic on the B170 is fast, there's a traffic light here where the cars turn onto the entry ramp, and a good place to stand.


country: AU
comment:
  Sometimes it can be a bit slow getting out of Walpole. (Heaps of grey nomads who won't pick you up) You can walk around and ask people parked at this tourist info centre, though. Sometimes helps.


country: NL
comment:
  Sit on the south side of the building to catch the longway-drivers. We waited for about 30 minutes in the pleasant sunlight (and there are free bathrooms!) until a very pleasant driver approached us and took us all the way to Gent.


country: DE
comment:
  Big Gas Station (including a not very frequented restaurante) with many Trucks. Unfortunately its not setteled next to the Highway- you find lots of locals refuelling and the other cars mainly go north (direction Regensburg). It was never easy for me finding somebody going to Munich or Passau. If somebody wants to drop you here, maybe ask him/her to drop you at one of the parking areas beside the highway a few kilometers before or ahead this station.


country: GB
comment:
  Rhiconich. Most locals will stop and pick you up, at least towards the next village. There just is a 30 minute wait in between cars sometimes...


country: FI
comment:
  To JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤.

  Take a buss from center and drop out at the stop of citymarket/prisma right after going over JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤-road. Then walk upperhill over the onramps. You can ask from driver or other passangers. After a road fence there is just enough space for cars to stop. It's not super good place, but gives me always a ride in half an hour.


country: NL
comment:
  Meerssen. Very little place to stop on a extremely short ramp with traffic going all directions, including the airport and Meerssen-West. Only to be considered after dark when there is little traffic.


country: GB
comment:
  Callander, A84 Westbound, just past village centre. Traffic isn't going fast yet and has enough place to stop, average waiting time 10-30 minutes.


country: GB
comment:
  Pass of Glencoe, A82; main route from Fort William and the West Coast to the rest of Scotland, lots of traffic, and plenty of space to stop. (parking places) Get rides in the weekends as far as Edinburgh or Glasgow from climbers. Average waiting time; <10 minutes.


country: GB
comment:
  Tongue, by the youth hostel; Little space to stop, but friendly locals that'll stop anyway. Depending on the traffic, it could take anywhere from 10 to 90 minutes.


country: GB
comment:
  Bettyhill. Easy to see traffic coming off the hill, both ways, plenty of place to stop. Friendly locals.


country: CZ
comment:
  If you're lazy walking long ways till you reach the hitchspot, you should try option three:

      * Take Metro C till Chodov
      * leaving the metro entry turn right into road Roztylska until you reach the roundabout
      * the 2nd exit of the roundabout is yours, then again turn the first right into road Kloknetova
      * walk straight through the path in the bush, cross the street, enter the gas station and hitch a ride =) 

  The gas-station is a smaller one right on the motorway, but even if you won't find a long-distance ride in the first 10 minutes you can ask drivers to bring you to the next gas-stations which is 10 minutes away by car.at this bigger gas station lots of people stop to refill and are going direction Brno, Vienna and Ceske Budejovice Budweis.

  On the Viva con Agua Hitchhike Race in 2009 one team chose that spot and it worked our pretty good! 


country: CZ
comment:
      * Take Metro C till Chodov

      * leaving the metro entry turn right into road Roztylska until you reach the roundabout

      * the 2nd exit of the roundabout is yours, then again turn the first right into road Kloknetova

      * walk straight through the path in the bush, cross the street, enter the gas station and hitch a ride =) 


country: HR
comment:
  take bus no.60 direction stobrec.the road (magistrala) leads you out of town direction Dubrovnik.best is to find a spot where cars are slow or in front of the traffic light.


country: AU
comment:
  Little service station here, where it's great to get a ride to Perth. Standing on the corner across the road seems very effective.


country: BG
comment:
  Direction - North - Golden Sands, Balchik, Kavarna, Kamen Bryag, Romania. Busstop near - â„–â„–8,9,109,409


country: UA
comment:
  Here is a buss-stop and right after that it's plenty of space for cars to stop. Slow traffic. Take a local buss to here from the center.


country: UA
comment:
  To North/Kiev. Plenty of space for a cars to stop right after unfinished old bridge.

  There is also a cafeteria/gas station nearby.


country: CL
comment:
  If you are traveling South outside of Santiago on Rout 5 (Pan American Highway) this is a perfect place as this is the entrance of the city. And it is very easy to get there - you just have to take mentro to Vespucio Norte, cross the big road and take the bus 305 (or better ask also at the bus driver if he is going there), take off before the huge intersection (aprox 7 minutes of the ride) and walk some 5 minutes to the spot. There is also a troll station, so the cars go slowly. It is really easy!


country: DE
comment:
  this is a good place to take the A2 to Hannover or Dortmund. There is a gas station and restaurant. 


country: PT
comment:
  Take Metro (line D; costs: 1,50 â‚¬) in direction to D.Joao II. At the final station (D Joao II) go out and wolk on the street a bit untill you come to the round about. There take the street "R.Soares dos Reis", which you follow untill you alreadz can see the place where a tunel enable you to cross the motorway. Walk to the indicated place (there is a walking path there - which is slightly hidden, so look and).

  PLACE good to go to south (LISBON, or AVEIRA). 

  The other side (untested) might be good to go north.


country: BG
comment:
  Direction - Turkey. This is a junction of the road Sofia-Turkey and a street heading out of Plovdiv. Lot of space to stop. thereÂ´s also some bistro. waiting time about 15 minutes


country: ME
comment:
  direction to Albania. Great HH point. You can get there by bus pendling form the town to Great beach. Just tell him to stop by tankstation and then walk a bit to the north-east


country: BE
comment:
  Very good exit point for the city of Ghent. Possibilities to get connected to the R4, E40 (Brussels or Oostend)and E17 (Antwerp or Lille). Stand just behind the traffic lights.  There's plenty of space to stop and pick up some hitchhikers.  


country: FR
comment:
  This is one of the worst places to try hitchhiking to the A1 (Paris, Orleans, Poitiers). Tried it for over 2.5 hours. Horrible


country: FR
comment:
  Also a very bad place to hitchhike and try to get out of the city. No space for drivers to pull over and cars are driving way too fast! 


country: FR
comment:
  I had some difficulties to reach the gasstation because the old pedestrian way lays in the middle of an industry zone that is renovated at the moment. (octobre 2009)  


country: ES
comment:
  Although its probally not allowed to hitchhike at entries of the highway in Spain I tried it and it worked out really quick. I  came here by foot


country: DK
comment:
  Long and big highway entry ramps where cars can safely pull over. Good to catch rides in both directions (Ã…rhus or Kolding)


country: DK
comment:
  Good spot to catch a ride to Billund Airport. There's a parking space where cars can pull over safely even tough they're quite fast at this point


country: SE
comment:
  towards Gothenburg.I walked here from the central station Lund,in fifteenminutes.Compared to the roundabout down the road,this place's just great.if using sign then mark "E6 N".Few mintues wait and voila,you are on the momve again;)


country: BE
comment:
  A lot of cars from Arlon (Belgium) travel every day to Luxembourg city :)) Just go to the highway out of town or to the old road connecting the two cities :)


country: GB
comment:
  Just to add some more detail here - This spot is at the start of the M4, so I've used it for Bristol etc. The best way to get there is to get to Chiswick Park tube station, either by tube or bus. When you get off the tube, walk straight out of the exit, over the bridge towards Chiswick High Road. Then turn right, and walk along the high road about 15 minutes. When you get to the big roundabout, you'll see a petrol station at the opposite side of the of the roundabout. Just after that petrol station is a kind of slip road heading towards Junction 2 of the M4. There is a layby cars can stop in.


country: FR
comment:
  Whoever added the "good" spot here must have been lucky or is completely out of his/her mind!  This place was the worst I've ever seen! To begin, it's in a smelly polluted part of the city ... and there are tons of hookers, dirty truck drivers, and used condoms everywhere.  The drivers taking this on-ramp are mostly locals.  I think it's better to head south to the service station via bus if you're taking the A7!


country: DE
comment:
  A lot of local car to Dresden center and NO cars to Berlin.waited for 4 hours and finaly whent to Dresden and then there from center get a lift to Berlin


country: BE
comment:
  Good hitchhiking place to get to Zottegem or Geraardsbergen. Cars have to pull over in the street on the right of the road (heading in the direction of Zottegem). +-10 minutes. 


country: AT
comment:
  I found a car to Feldkirch here. It took me 5 min. But there is not so much place here for cars to stop


country: AT
comment:
  A wonderful place to find cars to Switzerland or to Feldkirch(Innsbruck) directions. A lot of free space.


country: HU
comment:
  Best choice if you go towards Nagykanizsa.
  Immediate pick up isn't rare. Never waited more than 5 minutes. Go for it!


country: FR
comment:
  ask driver to leave you on Bosgouet service area. excellent spot to go to Paris or Rouen... sib_explorer


country: ES
comment:
  not perfect spot (as everywhere in Spain ;) but still possible, with sign "proxima gasolinera" you will definitely leave this place in couple hours... sib_explorer


country: ES
comment:
  sign "proxima gasolinera" rulezzz, estimated time of waiting - couple hours, but still... :) sib_explorer


country: ES
comment:
  one of another "proxima gasolinera" on the way from Madrid, be ready to wait for couple hours. sib_explorer


country: ES
comment:
  speed limit 50, cars goes really slow and parking is alowed, estimates time of waiting - couple hours, but still doable   sib_explorer


country: DE
comment:
  There is an Aral petrol station and a burger king. To catch both stay at the road in height of the burger king at the bus stop. Lots of cars stop before going on the a61 in both directions. Traffic gets more and more cause of the Airport Frankfurt-Hahn


country: AU
comment:
  Truck stop- ideal for getting north. We caught the 310 bus from Midland which dropped us off right here, then got a lift 20 min later all the way to Broome!


country: BA
comment:
  Hitching from Livno to Split is easy. Just get to the road towards Split, walk past the Hypermarkets to the sign signifying that you're leaving Livno, and there's a nice spot for cars to pull over. It seems like many folks from Split come here to do some cheaper shopping, so a ride shouldn't take long at all.


country: DE
comment:
  This is the last rest stop on this highway before the ferries from Rostock, and it also contains a ticket booth where one can purchase ferry tickets. So you'd think that it would be a good place to scout out a ride on the ferries to Denmark, but no, not so much. I waited several hours. Perhaps I need to brush up on my German, or maybe it was just a bad day.


country: HU
comment:
  All along Nagykorosi, there are bus stops where drivers headed onto the highway towards Serbia can pull over to give you a ride. It seems like a good place to hitch, but I spent an entire afternoon here going nowhere, and ended up on the night train.


country: US
comment:
  This spot is convenient for obvious reasons, as it's close to downtown and does not require a bus ride. There's also a shoulder. Since traffic is going several different directions, it's a good idea to hold a sign. I waited less than an hour here for a ride to Portland, which is pretty decent by American standards.


country: SE
comment:
  I agree, most likely the best place in Gothenburg for south-going traffic. DonÂ´t turn down any short hitches to Kungsbacka, since thereÂ´s an excellent resting place/gas station on the way.


country: ES
comment:
  This petrol station is not that good, although it works for short rides. If you go to Sevilla from here, you will find petrol stations on the way where you could be droped. If you go to MÃ¡laga from here, the first petrol station is within more than 100 km, after Antequera (this is because is a new highway


country: ES
comment:
  When Im with other person, one is standing here while the other asks at the BP petrol station a bit further (read the comments I wrote there). Good luck!
  To get here on foot it takes about 30 minutes from the center (a bit more with backpacks). You can take the bus number 6 and get as close as possible to this point (you can show the driver on a map). A gozar


country: DE
comment:
  waited here for 1 hour, because most people are going to schleswig. probably it's better to stand on the other side between motorway and schleswig. 


country: DE
comment:
  many people who are going to the motorway are driving by this point. you got 2 petrol station but it's better to stand at the street in front of the bridge. there's a little space at the 'moin moin' where cars can stop easily. it's not perfect, but i waited only 30 minutes.


country: DE
comment:
  nice big petrol station including restaurant and burger king (called Aalbek). many people are stopping here, so it should be easy to find someone going in your direction (in my case: hamburg-hannover). short advice: there's another petrol station before entering hamburg but there's far LESS traffic stopping so you should choose this one. ;)


country: DE
comment:
  Holmmoor is a good place to get a lift, but there are far less cars stopping than in Aalbek a few kilometres to the north. hamburg or bremen should be no problem, but hannover or berlin is quite tricky. nevertheless, if you got time and a little piece of patience, you wont wait longer than 1 hour.


country: DE
comment:
  Allertal is the last station before crossing A2. so if you want to go directing Berlin or Magdeburg/Leipzig you should get out here. most people are travelling to the south so it's not thaaat easy. but if you ask for Braunschweig you can get off at the next petrol station on the A2 in front of Braunschweig (Zweidorfer Holz). I've waited 10 minutes ;)


country: DE
comment:
  most people stopping here are heading towards magdeburg or berlin (just a few get off in braunschweig). so it should be easy to get a lift in this direction, although not too much cars are stopping here. if you want to go to Leipzig you need to get out before magdeburg (Rasthof BÃ¶rde).


country: PL
comment:
  To Katowice, Wroclaw, CZ. Very good place for hhiking. Cars going from the bridge, you are visible from big distance. Use reflectors and signs and you will success. 


country: PL
comment:
  to Lodz, Czestochowa, Piotrkow Tribunalski. We hitch-hikked behind the bus station (the publish transports from katowice go here very often) and traffic lights on the main road (czech republic - czestochowa). And in the end. We stayed here 5 hours and nothing. I think that problem was in big road and Polish workers Â´ve build factory near the road, but I think now is it OK:)


country: HR
comment:
  not so much traffic, but when somebody pickt you up they go only on the cost road, and on this road its very easy to find a good place.


country: HR
comment:
  a good place, with a very small, sweet gas station, small traffic but i was pickt up after Å¥ minutes


country: GB
comment:
  Nov '09
  Took 3 hours to get out of this spot with loads of cars.
  much better hitching from junc 3/5. service station probably best.


country: LT
comment:
  to get out of Klaipeda and HH towards Kaunas or Vilnius, catch bus n.15 and get off at the last stop, then walk a bit to choose a good spot.(2009)


country: BY
comment:
  I am not really sure this is the exact place, anyway, trolleybus n.5 and marshrutka n. 20 & 29, drive you all the way to a place very close to the highway to Minsk/Gomel, just ask the driver or somebody else. To get a ride was really easy from here, in the morning. 


country: BY
comment:
  HH on this road is almost sensless: on my way to Dzitkovichi I got few short rides and I spent a long time waiting on the road. Nevertheless, the people who picked me up made it worth (and we nad no languages in common). Hitching here you will experience the countryside, its stillness and the carachter who populate it. Bring enough food and water!


country: PL
comment:
  I had the stupid idea of reach Slovakia from this road. I managed to reach Slovakia, but it took ages. It was sunny, at least!


country: RU
comment:
  take a bus to shelehov from irkutsk. get off from a bus where it leaves the main road and turns to a town.walk a bit. really good place to hh towards ulan ude


country: MN
comment:
  it's quite good spot close to UB but it might difficult to reach it, hh or walk towards it through the city.


country: PL
comment:
  To go to Berlin this place is awfull because from here nobody go to the A2 perhaps it could be good to go to Wroclaw


country: GB
comment:
  The junction is very large. Depending on where you want to go, it may or may not be easy to get a lift from the service station. If you want the A1 North, it will be difficult. The traffic around the junction and on the exit roads is moving too fast to safely hitch. Maybe try these if there's a traffic jam


country: HR
comment:
  This is the only spot I could find for hitchhiking north out of Dubrovnik. Make sure you stay behind the barrier and make yourself as visible as possible, because the pull in spot is not long and the drivers can't see it from far away.


country: FR
comment:
  Good place to leave Strasbourg. Take the tram (line A) from the center to "Hautepierre". From the tram stop, walk to the supermarket "Auchan", the spot is just behind the car park.


country: US
comment:
  North to Olympia / Seattle. This is a suprisingly good hitching spot. Many cars stop to fill up with gas here, and since they can se you at the onramp while filling up, they have ample time to decide to pick you up when getting back on the highway. Big shoulder, too.


country: US
comment:
  There don't seem to be many good hitching spots south out of Olympia, but this place is ok. Wide shoulder and close to downtown.


country: US
comment:
  Not such a great spot, but I've never found hitching north outta Portland to be all that easy. Cars have room to stop and if traffic is backed up, you can ask around at stopped cars. We waited one and a half hours.


country: US
comment:
  There are two truck stops here. Walk around asking enough, and you can easily find a ride to Reno, Oakland, or elsewhere. A bus from Salt Lake goes by, but I don't know which one.


country: CA
comment:
  To my opinion, the best way to get there - operating year round, cheap, frequent: take the ttc bus 165D from Wilson subway to its last stop, Hwy 400 Car Pool Lot. Buses run Mon-Sat from 5.43am - 24 to 30 mins interval, last bus at 9.51pm. If You will not get a ride north, the last bus 165D back to Toronto runs at 10.54pm. Sunday: they run from 8.50am till 8.10pm - every 32-40 minutes. You can use a free transfer from the subway, and You are supposed to pay extra $0.35 since You travel past the city border. This last stop is only a FEW METERS from the ramp! THe ramp is in a good place because it is out of the city, yet there is enough traffic on it. This seems to be the best spot to hitch north/transcanada from Toronto. 


country: BG
comment:
  new junction. direction dupnitsa and greece: better (more space) up on the motorway than down in the roundabout. 


country: AU
comment:
  best spot to get out of town - although, you could probably get a ride from closer to town if you tried. Make sure to start early (like 5 or 6am!) if you want to get long distances! You will most likely get a ride out to the roadhouse 30km from here- take it, and then ask the truckies out there!


country: AU
comment:
  Don't listen to Wolfe Creek!! :) There's a truckstop/roadhouse here which is your next best bet to get north (Kununurra-Darwin) or south (Port Hedland - Perth) Truckies rule! We got a ride 1000km in one go!


country: AU
comment:
  even though it looks like the middle of nowhere, this is actually a pretty good spot to get north, as trucks slow right down at the intersection and can stop easily. We got a ride offer to Darwin with a truckie from here at night with only a torch to shine on our thumbs to show we were hitching!! If you get a ride offer that takes you past Kununurra - TAKE IT!!!!


country: AU
comment:
  If you want to potentially be stuck on the side of the road in 45 degree heat, try hitching from Kununurra. There are no truck stops here, so you can rule trucks out as an option. (and that's usually the best option) After two and a half days of nothing vaguely resembling a ride, we gave up and bought a flight to Darwin. (cheaper then the Greyhound by the way). If you get stuck here, good luck!


country: CA
comment:
  Going south, we got a ride in less than an hour. Keep in mind, though, that this road is seldomly used with very little traffic. There are no real settlements between Hopewell and the coast, so if you do get a ride past Hopewell, you're probably getting a ride for a reasonably long distance.


country: US
comment:
  Laytonville is probably one of the most bad-ass little hippie towns in Northern California. Wait by the gas station or ask around at the food co-op across the street for a ride north or south.


country: US
comment:
  An ok spot, but a long, expensive bus ride from the bay and a long walk from the bus stop. Next time I'll try hitching in town.


country: AU
comment:
  *Update* - The service station here burned down recently, but still plenty of traffic- including trucks- stops here. Free showers in the caravan park add an extra perk for the hot and sweaty traveler! :)


country: AU
comment:
  South Western Hwy Turnoff - Great spot for getting down south (Bridgetown, Pemberton, Denmark, Albany).


country: AU
comment:
  Busselton to Bunbury- Easy from this roundabout! There's a spot with room for people to pull over and they're all going pretty slow, so there's time to make smiley faces and wave!


country: AT
comment:
  this is a spot for hitchhiking from Imst to Feldkirch and Innsbruck directions. There isnÂ´t much free place here, but it works. a lot of cars. But donÂ´t try this spot in darkness, it could be dangerous.


country: AT
comment:
  this roundabout is very convenient, but you will miss some cars (comparing to the another spot I added for Imst),which go to motorway. But this is a perfect place for hitchking in darkness, many lights


country: DE
comment:
  Good traffic going right, but still most of cars goes straight, so it would be better to have a written plate with destination (i.e. OS for Osnabruke)


country: UA
comment:
  Great hitchhiking spot towards Uman' & Odesa. Get there by metro station Lybidska & trolley bus #2, last stop.


country: FR
comment:
  good place to go in direction to Caen.
  cars drive slow here (50 km/h) and there is place to stop. It's a truck driver parking with small bar.


country: CZ
comment:
  good to HH to Prague, Pilsen, Germany. YouÂ´ll be seen from far distance. Get there with tram 5 or 8 to the endstation


country: CH
comment:
  Right outside the Cop shop! Direction: Luzern. With a sign, this is a great place to stand and has a nice bay for cars to pull into.


country: DE
comment:
  There is a short but sufficent extra lane here to pull out - made for hitchhiking! Great in direction West - Aachen


country: DE
comment:
  It's a gas station with quite a bit of traffic. Reach it with bus 152, stop "Eil Heumarer" from Steinstr. S-Bahn


country: DE
comment:
  Gas station, but people going only to local destinations. Little traffic. People confused. I nearly died there.


country: SE
comment:
  Cars have a high speed and depending on time of day they may not be many. I waited for 20 min.
  Get here by train or bus to MalmÃ¶ Syd SvÃ¥ngertorp station and walk the last 300 m.


country: US
comment:
  Going south? Stand here!  There's a good place for cars to pull off the road.  They're usually going pretty slow. Most of the traffic during the winter is heading to the ski resorts on Mount Hood.  During the summer people will be driving farther.


country: AU
comment:
  DIRECTION NORTH - QLD / BYRON BAY / GOLD COST / NEWCASTLE - Catch a ride really easily from that place

  Place for car : gigantic
  Speed : 20 km/h
  Traffic : average/high
  Waiting : 5/10 minutes

  I dont saw if there was some lights thee for the night, i think so...


country: TR
comment:
  you can arrive to ANTALYA with one car... not so much waiting more less 20 min... if you wanna stand in here you need to take a bus from city center to Dutlu Cad... but you need to little bit walk...


country: TR
comment:
  this way to go CAPPADOCIA, KONYA, ADANA... you can come here by bus from city center... 20 min. footstand is enough .) maybe just one car can reached to you your destination...


country: IS
comment:
  This is the best place for hitchhiking if you're leaving the ReykjavÃ­k area to the north. Cars are slowed down here right after the roundabout and they have space to stop on the shoulder to pick you up.


country: FR
comment:
  le pÃ©age de Meyrargues, pour aller vers le 04 et le 05.
  The Meyrargues toll, to the north and the Alps.


country: FR
comment:
  Un bon endroit pour quitter Manosque, surtout vers le sud.
  A good spot to leave Manosque, especially to the south.


country: FR
comment:
  Une alternative Ã  la rive gauche pour aller vers Oraison, une bonne place pour aller vers Valensole. (attention, peu de trafic!)
  Alternative spot to Oraison, good spot to Valensole (caution, little traffic!)


country: FR
comment:
  Meilleur endroit pour aller vers Les MÃ©es et Digne. Pour ChÃ¢teau-Arnoux et Sisteron, bonne alternative.
  Best place to hitch to Digne. Good alternative spot to Sisteron.


country: FR
comment:
  Bon endroit pour aller vers le sud, surtout pour des petites distances.
  Good stop to go southward, especially for little distances.


country: FR
comment:
  Meilleur endroit pour aller vers Aix et Marseille depuis le coin!
  Best spot to hitch southward, to Aix and Marseille!
  pas mal pour le nord.
  Not bad to go northward.


country: FR
comment:
  Endroit pas trop mal pour aller vers Digne. Si possible, privilÃ©gier Malijai.
  Not that bad to go to Digne, but better stop in Malijai if possible.


country: FR
comment:
  Bon endroit pour rejoindre l'autoroute depuis Digne. Pour aller vers Digne, privilÃ©gier l'autre rond-point.
  Good spot to reach the highway from Digne.
  Toward Digne, try the other roundabout.


country: DE
comment:
  i think there is no more better point for easy to go out from Hamburg but i give good point because of waiting... everybody smiling or shaking their hand(ok this kind act is better than any where) .P you can come here by train(Hesselbrook) or by U2 subway(Rauhes Haus)... so i waited 30-45 min. in summer time and just one car bring me to center of Berlin .)


country: LT
comment:
  firstly get on bus from city center(i don't remember number now) and get of when bus turn to Ausros Gatve(tight road), it s easy to decide... after little bit walk through on Joniskis, Riga(LV) road and pass the cemetery because almost half of the car on that way going to cemetery...


country: AU
comment:
  DIRECTION SOUTH SYDNEY GOLD COST

  Waiting : 5/10 minutes
  Traffic : low
  Car Place : large
  Speed : 40 km/h


country: LV
comment:
  not bad HH point... cars are very fast but maybe you can catch somebody who living shopping center to your way .P also enough place for cars... you can come here with airport bus from city center...


country: LV
comment:
  not bad HH point... cars are very fast but maybe you can catch somebody who living shopping center to your way .P also enough place for cars... waited 30min... you can come here with airport bus from city center...


country: LV
comment:
  don t try to go Salacgriva from this road... it looks like shortcut but after some km road going to worst... you can see some car who choice this road but they re going their home...


country: GR
comment:
  By European standards, terrible. Three hours for a short ride. Next time I'm in town, I'm searching far and wide for a better spot.


country: KZ
comment:
  My girlfriend and I were spent here more than an hour and finaly got a local bus (Atyrau-Astrakhan'). No one stopped here. Most of the cars are local. Traffic is medium.


country: GB
comment:
  All the trafic goes to M5 (towards Birmingham), there's a service way so they can stop for you. I hitched here in dark at 2009 December and I was picked up in 30 mins to B'ham.


country: FR
comment:
  Un trÃ¨s bon endroit pour quitter Digne. Eventuellement demander Ã  quelqu'un qui habite pas trÃ¨s loin de vous dÃ©poser lÃ .
  Good spot to leave Digne. You can ask to be dropped there.


country: FR
comment:
  Devant le ChÃ¢teau, bon endroit pour aller vers Sisteron et Grenoble (plus besoin de prendre l'autoroute).
  In front of the castle, good spot to Sisteron and grenoble (no need to go to the highway anymore).


country: FR
comment:
  Si on vous a dÃ©posÃ© Ã  Venelles ou que votre conducteur part vers Peyrolles/Jouques etc..., marchez donc jusqu'ici. De lÃ  vous pourrez rejoindre trÃ¨s facilement Pertuis ou bien le pÃ©age de Meyrargues (qui est juste avant Pertuis et qui est l'endroit parfait pour aller dans les Alpes).

  If someone drops you off at Venelles, or if your driver goes to Peyrolles/Jouque. You should definitely walk until here. This spot is perfect if you're aiming to reach Pertuis or the Meyrargues toll (which is located a few miles before Pertuis and is the best "gate" to hitchhike to the Alps).


country: FR
comment:
  Si quelqu'un vous a dÃ©posÃ© Ã  Venelles ou si votre conducteur va en direction de Peyrolles/Saint-Paul-lÃ¨s-Durance... Marchez donc jusqu'ici ! C'est un trÃ¨s bon endroit pour rejoindre Pertuis ou le pÃ©age de Meyrargues (qui est Ã  quelques kilomÃ¨tres avant Pertuis et est l'endroit parfait pour aller dans les Alpes).

  If someone drops you off at Venelles or if you driver goes to Peyrolles/Saint-Paul-lÃ¨s-Durance, you should definitely walk to this spot. This is a very good place if you're aiming to reach Pertuis or the Meyrargues toll (which is located a few miles before Pertuis and is the perfect "gate" to hitchhike in the alps).


country: FR
comment:
  Best spot to go towards Seyne or Barcelonnette.

  Meilleur endroit pour aller vers Seyne ou Barcelonnette


country: FR
comment:
  PÃ©age idÃ©al pour aller vers Avignon, Paris, Valence, Lyon ou bien Montpellier, Perpignan, Bayonne, Barcelone.

  An awesome toll that can lead you toward Avignon, Valence, Lyon, Paris, or Montpellier, Perpignan, Barecelone, Bayonne.


country: FR
comment:
  Bon endroit pour aller vers Aix-en-Provence, Nice, Marseille ou bien encore l'Italie !

  Good spot to Aix-en-Provence, Nice, Marseille or Italia! 


country: US
comment:
  We were told by law enforcement that hitchhiking is illegal throughout the whole of Michigan and forced to leave this spot. While this statement is questionable, you'd be better off walking, to the nearest great lake and then swimming to Canada. o_O Good luck, you'll need it.


country: NL
comment:
  Traffic lights and more than enough place for cars to stop on entrance lane to the North. Not too many cars come by but more than enough :)


country: DE
comment:
  I tried hitching here for three hours with no luck whatsoever. When it started to rain, I got on a bus.


country: RS
comment:
  This is a great hitching spot for rides to Novi Sad, Budapest, or Vienna. I had made two signs, one for Vienna, one for Budapest, planning to get to Vienna with two rides, but there was so much traffic headed straight to Austria that my 'Buda' sign was unnecessary. After you get off the 706 bus, walk up onto the highway, and there's a huge shoulder, big enough for a truck to pull over.


country: AU
comment:
  good enough place to hh towards esperance if u lazy to walk a bit out of town.took me 20mins. to hitch a ride to esperance


country: AU
comment:
  ideal place to hh towards adelaide. but..there's not traffic coz it's bloody long way.takes about 2-3days to drive to adelaide. it took me about 5hrs to hitch a ride there. don't get off earlier than border village.
  and yeah..there's wonderfull petrol station nearby. free coffe,tea, internet. easy to camp over night..good luck here


country: DK
comment:
  Despite other ratings, I stood here on the ramp past the Statoil gas station. That's the place to be, as cars coming from the ferry won't pick you up (either they're faster than you or they're full of beer). Standing here though, you'll be nicely visible to those coming from town and going over the bridge. I got a ride in 1 minute, a short one though, but sufficient to reach a good spot on the road to Copenhagen.


country: FO
comment:
  This island is great for hitching. Not much traffic, but very friendly people. Somehow everybody will ask you if you're Russian, as apparently only Russians hitch here (?). It's not unlikely that you'll find young people who have nothing to do and will just bring you to your destination, even if they're not going there.


country: IS
comment:
  Sometimes very little traffic, like a bit everywhere in this part of the island. If you're going to EgilstaÃ°ir, remember that you can't take the shorter mountain road (not on this map) unless you hitch a 4x4. In the summer, many drivers with rental cars don't know that. Knowing it will save you lots of time. 


country: DE
comment:
  Horrible place. It looks like the place where you'd want to hitch from though. Avoid it like the plague. Here there are only trucks who don't even look at you. You might want to go back to the Toll where there is a huge rest area. Truckers have to stop there to fill in some forms, so remember that they're not chilling out. I eventually went back to the town (Padborg) and hitched the other way towards Flensburg, where I got a ride fairly soon. Beware, people are passing the border to go shopping, so only short rides available.


country: CA
comment:
  Prendre le mÃ©tro jusqu'Ã  Sherbrooke/Longueil, puis marcher (5 min) jusque lÃ . Bon spot pour QuÃ©bec/Maritimes.
  Take the metro to Sherbrooke/Longueil, then walk to this point (5 min). Good spot to QuÃ©bec city/Maritimes.


country: CA
comment:
  Pour aller vers Ottawa/Toronto. Pas terrible mais seul spot Ã  ma connaissance.
  Towards Ottawa/Toronto. Average but only spot I know.


country: CA
comment:
  The best spot to hitch from or to Newfoundland is in the boat itself. Ask the people, it's worth it!


country: CA
comment:
  Northwards. be carefull, there's nothing around! If someone's going to Stephenville from PaB, ask for being dropped there if possible.


country: CA
comment:
  Southwards. be carefull, there's nothing around! If someone's going to Stephenville from Corner Brooke, ask for being dropped there if possible.


country: CA
comment:
  Southwards and northwards. Stop at the Big Stop and ask the people for being picked up.
  It should work pretty well.


country: CA
comment:
  To Deer Lake/Corner Brook: try to begin to hitch there (and not in Norris Point for example).
  Little traffic but it works.


country: CA
comment:
  If your driver is going another way, try to get dropped in the Big Stop around here, and go ask the truckers and car-drivers!


country: CA
comment:
  Vers Tadoussac. Beaucoup de trafic mais peu de place pour s'arrÃªter.
  Towards Tadoussac. Much traffi but little place to stop.


country: CA
comment:
  Demander sur le traversier ou aux autos qui l'attendent.
  Ask on the shuffle itself or to the drivers waiting .


country: AT
comment:
  get a train (S50) to "Wien Wolf in der Au" then cross the Bridge and ask people at the gas station (OMV). Really easy to get a ride here :) 


country: FR
comment:
  Pour aller vers Lisieux. Pas terrible, si possible rejoindre un des rond-points suivants.
  Towards Lisieux. Average, if possible reach one of the following roundabouts.


country: FR
comment:
  Vers Pont-L'evÃªque/Deauville. Pas trop de place, mais du trafic.
  Towards Deauville. Little place, but enough traffic.


country: DE
comment:
  Not much traffic, but all the local traffic around KÃ¶ln is pretty much sorted here. Good for direction Krefeld/Nijmegen


country: DE
comment:
  A57 Alpen, direction Nijmegen/Kleve. Much local traffic, try sign "Kleve" to get out relatively quick. From ramp 3 "Weeze" on there is much traffic for Nijmegen and further.


country: DE
comment:
  Konigsforst-Ost; Little traffic and many local cars. Hitched out of here three times so far, and only gotten a ride once, into KÃ¶ln. The other two times I gave up after three hours and went back to my girlfriendÂ´s place.
  Konigsforst-West is marginally better. When using this raststÃ¤tte to go south, better try to get a ride to Siegburg and try from there to get further. 


country: DE
comment:
  Medenbach. Not the best raststÃ¤tte, but the last decent place before the motorways branch out into the Rhein-Main area where you can get out if your driver is going somewhere else than you. Rides from here are usually long, but expect 60-120 minute waiting time.


country: FR
comment:
  Vers Coutances. Tous les automobilistes qui quittent l'autroute ou arrivente de Villedieu passent par lÃ .
  Good spot to Coutances, because all car-drivers coming from the highway or from Villedieu go through there.


country: FR
comment:
  Il paraÃ®t qu'il est meilleur que la porte d'Auteuil pour la Normandie. A essayer.
  I Heard it's a better spot than Porte d'Auteuil for Normandie. To try.


country: FR
comment:
  Vers Caen/Paris, excellent! Toutes les voitures arrivant de Saint-LÃ´ passent par lÃ . Si vous allez vers Paris, faites votre possible pour ne pas vous arrÃªter Ã  Caen (trÃ¨s difficile de quitter cette ville).
  Towards Caen/Paris. If you go towards Paris, try to not stop in Caen, it's difficult to get out of there.


country: FR
comment:
  La direction indique A13/Paris. Cependant, en pleine journÃ©e et en pÃ©riode de fÃªte, aucune voiture ne s'est arrÃªtÃ©e pendant 2 heures.
  Conseil: rejoindre l'aire de repos de Giberville par la N175.
  A sign indicates A13/Paris. However, in good conditions, no car stopped in 2 hours. Advice: reach the Giberville service area by N175.


country: FR
comment:
  Pas terrible. PossibilitÃ© de passer par Oraison/Les MÃ©es.
  Average. Possibly go by oraison and Les MÃ©es.


country: CH
comment:
  Vers Martigny/Lausanne. Suffisamment de place pour s'arrÃªter.
  Towards martigny/Lausanne. Enough place for cars to stop.


country: CH
comment:
  meilleur endroit pour quitter Montreux. PossibilitÃ© de prendre un train ou un bus pour atteindre ce point.
  Avec un panneau "Lausanne", trÃ¨s facile de dÃ©coller d'ici.
  Best spot to leave Montreux. Possibly take a bus or train to get there.
  With a sign "Lausanne", very easy to take off.


country: CH
comment:
  Meilleur endroit pour quitter Montreux. PossibilitÃ© de prendre un train ou un bus pour atteindre ce point. Avec un panneau (Martigny, Sion...), facile de dÃ©coller en direction du Valais.
  Best spot to leave Montreux. Possibly take a bus a train to get there. With a sign, pretty easy to get to Valais/Wallis.


country: CH
comment:
  Sur le parking, demandez Ã  aller vers Lausanne, GenÃ¨ve ou Berne (utilisez les plaques d'immatriculation). Vous Ã©viterez ainsi l'agglomÃ©ration de Lausanne si vous allez plus loin.
  In the parking area, ask to get to Lausanne, Geneva or Bern (use the cars' licence plates), so you can avoid Lausanne's center if you're going further.


country: DE
comment:
  Nicht schlecht nach Herrenberg, aber schwierig nach der Autobahn (besser erst nach Rottenburg fahren).
  Not bad to Herrenberg, but quite difficult to reach the highway (better go first to Rottenburg).


country: HU
comment:
  Last service station before the Austrian border (where you can get lifts as well). 

  Lifts to Austria are easy to get, Slovakia seemed to be a bit less common.


country: DE
comment:
  Wildeshausen Sud; Good place for getting rides towards Hamburg, Me and my girlfriend got out of here at midnight within 10 minutes towards Copenhagen.


country: DK
comment:
  Nice place for hitching toward Copenhagen. There's a junction with traffic from Middelfart, and a huge resting area for private cars nearby the spot.


country: DK
comment:
  This roundabout is HUGE, so try to avoid it. Cars are driving really fast, and it's quite senseless to try your hitching luck here.
  Go to the next entrance instead, it's only 1.5 km away.


country: DK
comment:
  Really nice place, use this instead of the big roundabout. There's a McDonalds nearby, so lots of traffic here.


country: FR
comment:
  We hitched out from here, across the street from the macdonalds there was a really god place to stand, we got a ride in 5 mins. 
  Doingtheworldforfree.com


country: IT
comment:
  we were trying to reach mount etna from here in april 2004. the autobus takes you from the center of 'catania' to 'nicolosi' (the town where this marker is placed). from this spot you can hitchhike to the end of the road at the visitors center about 3 km close to the top of mount etna. we (3 persons) were waiting only a few minutes until someone took us. people are friendly as it is clear that you are a wanderer (meaning to have an interest in the geology). from 'nicolosi' it should also be possible to hitchhike back to 'catania'. on my personal rating from 1 (a very-very poor spot) to 10 (an excellent spot) this place receives  an '7 to 8'. 


country: CZ
comment:
  at this spot there is a gasstation at which you can ask drivers going northbound ('brno' directed) or southbound ('vienna' directed). the federal highway here has an asphalted shoulder which makes it easy (meaning: safe) to stand on and for drivers easy to stop. if there is cars stopping at the gasstation you can jump back and forth between the pumps and the road (10 to 20 meters). although i have rated this spot 'good' it took me on december 25th 2009 (first day of christmas) almost two hours to find someone going to vienna (positive: after the long waiting time the tour was nonstop then to the center of vienna). on my personal rating from '1' (very- very poor) to '10'  (excellent) this spot receives an '8 to 9' as it is safe and easy to find.


country: CZ
comment:
  i have never hitchhiked from this place but it seems to be very good to me. the marker shows a gasstation next to the divided four lane federal highway that leads into the autobahn to bratislava (and furtheron to vienna or budapest). when i took a closer look at this spot there were many cars at the pumps so it should not be a problem to find drivers. the gasstation is surrounded by supermarkets so you will not starve in case you have not brought anything to eat. there is an ALDI market some hundred meters in the direcion of brno. to walk from brno to here it takes around 30 minutes. there is a paved way along the river a few hundred meters west of the gasstation. it should also be possible to use this spot to get on the brno - praha autobahn.


country: CZ
comment:
  i hitchhiked from here to 'vienna' (via 'mikulov' close to the czech-austrian border) on the federal highway 'D52'. this road leads directly into the highway. although it was december 25th (2009) and there were almost no cars on the road in the morning it only took me 1 (in words: one) minute to find a driver. there is a gasstation 50 meters down the road as well as a second gasstation some 200 meters down the road (direction south). there is supermarkets & mc. donalds in the area, you will not starve. depending on the amount of cars you can choose here from hitchhiking from the traffic light (what i did back then on dec. 25th, there were absolutely no cars on this morning at the pumps of any of the two stations) or the stations themselves. it is obvious that drivers taking this road want to go south. also, you could use this spot to leave 'brno' first and try out better spots further south. there is around 5 to 8 gasstations between 'brno' and 'mikulov' on highway 'D52'. 


country: CZ
comment:
  i tried out this spot in december 2009 (a monday morning). i wanted to travel from here to 'brno' (moravia) on autobahn number '1'. i could not find anyone, i had to leave the spot after a waiting time of over two hours. there were several friendly drivers that told me the same over and over again: "i am only driving to my office around the corner, you should try the mc. donalds further down on autobahn number 1". this is what i did. i can only rate this spot 'average' although it is safe and people were friendly. to reach the mc. donalds i was walking six kilometers via the footbridge (seen on this image right of the station), 'turkova street', 'chilska street', 'formanka street' to the town of 'ujezd'. from there you can see the mc. donalds 'M'. from this other spot (what drivers recommended to me) it took five minutes to find a driver to 'brno'. there is also a bus going there. use the metrostation CHODOV (line C) to get to OPATOV (one stop), ask how to get to the town 'ujezd', walk the last 500 meters.


country: CZ
comment:
  the 'praha D1 mc. donalds restaurant'; this is one of the most perfect spots for hitchhiking i have ever seen. i is safe, quick, even though not so easy to reach from praha with the public transportation system. at this place you can choose from many drivers to take you with. i was only going to 'brno' but 'bratislava' or 'vienna' (nonstop) should be possible too. stand on the parking lot or ask at the restaurant's door. a place definitly worth taking a long-long detour from the center of the city.  


country: DE
comment:
  to get to praha (prague, prag) on autobahn 'A 17' this is a good spot. you can stand underneath (or in front of-) the tall blue 'PIRNA - PRAHA' sign on 'B 170'. there is a curbside where the road bends onto the autobahn's on ramp, it is safe (legal) to stand there also safe for drivers to stop on the mentioned (cobbled) sliproad. you will know what i mean if you see it. to get there you can take the ??? bus from the city center which stops only a few hundred meters away or walk for around 30 minutes from the dresden DB main station via 'fritz-lÃ¶ffler straÃŸe', 'bergstraÃŸe', 'innsbrucker straÃŸe' and  'possendorfer straÃŸe' (do not follow 'innsbrucker straÃŸe' all its way but shortcut through 'kaitz' village). there is a noise protection wall between 'possendorfer straÃŸe' and 'B 170' but don't worry, there are doors to open in the wall. don't miss the view on elbsandsteingebirge from the B 170 bridge over the autobahn. on my personal ranking "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i will rate this spot a "7 to 8". 


country: DE
comment:
  a good spot to get to 'dresden' on autobahn 'A 14'. it took me only three minutes to find a driver. it should also be possible to reach other places in eastern saxony, western poland or prague (praha, prag). on my personal ranking "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i will rate this spot a "6 to 7". 


country: DE
comment:
  a perfect (!) spot to leave 'leipzig' to 'dresden' or other places in eastern saxony. the 'paunsdorf center' (the roofed area you see below the marker) is a large shopping mall with excellent public transportation opportunities (tram, bus, even late at night) to the leipzig city center. it took me 30 seconds (!!!) to find a driver taking me on autobahn 'A 14' in the direction of 'dresden'. it is not legal (!) or safe (no shoulder) to stand between here and the 'A 14' on the federal highway 'B 6'. on my personal ranking "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i will rate this spot a "9". 


country: DE
comment:
  a good place to reach 'bitterfeld' from 'halle'. i tried to reach 'dresden' but only received offers to 'leipzig'. there is many cars passing this spot (safe conditions for cars to stop) but most of the traffic is commuting. at the gas station (or the mc. donald's restaurant) on the opposite side of the road it is not easier to find someone. mostly locals eat their cheeseburgers(or fill their cars) there. on my personal ranking "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i will rate this spot a "5 to 6". 


country: DE
comment:
  michendorf, michendorf, if the world would be as easy to understand as 'michendorf rastanlage' everyone would love to live here! hannover, magdeburg, dortmund, leipzig, munich are to reach from this spot. you should definitely (!) wait for a driver that can take you all the way to your destination and NOT only until the next rest area (which might not be as good as 'michendorf'). if you need to reach the other side of the rastanlage (if you are only transiting berlin) you need to walk in the direction of michedorf village center (aks inside the station; they have local maps), walk underneath the 'berliner autobahnring' (200 meters east of the area) and follow the concrete way through the forest on the other side. this maneuver can take up to 30 minutes even though it looks shorter on this map. there is an ALDI as well as REWE market (open until 10 P.M.) in the center of the village of 'michendorf' (detour changing the sides of rest areas + shopping = 10 minutes).
  again: my 'michendorf recommendation' is to wait until someone can take you to your day's final destination, don't just take the first car as this spot is excellent! on my personal ranking "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i will rate this spot a "9 to 10". 


country: DE
comment:
  'autobahn rasthof borde sued' (shown on the map but not on the satellite image as it is newly built) is an average place to hitch from. when i tried to reach 'leipzig' via autobahn "A 2" as well as autobahn "A 14" i failed. instead i went to berlin to 'tank und rastanlage michendorf' on 'berliner autobahnring', changed the sides (there is a tunnel) and went from there to back to 'leipzig' on autobahn "A 8". i only want to give 'boerde sued' an average rating. also, there is not too many drivers stopping at this place. i was there in october 2009 on a monday afternoon. to reach berlin it is a good spot, i saw many cars with a 'B' on the license plate. on my personal rating from "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i give this place a "4 to 5".


country: DE
comment:
  one wrong information: it is not autobahn "A8" but autobahn "A9" that leads from 'berlin' to 'leipzig'. 'rastanlage michendorf' is on the ring south-west of berlin. 


country: DE
comment:
  'rastanlage hannover-garbsen' is an  excellent interchange between the autobahn linking germany from east to west "A2" and the north - south autobahn "A 7". i was hitchhiking from this spot to berlin in october 2009. you can change easy from one side of the autobahn to the other via a tunnel.  there is plenty of drivers that can take you. this place is so good, WAI for a car that can take you the whole way through to berlin, poland, hamburg or wherever - don't just take the first one...


country: DE
comment:
  all the information given in the other markers are correct. 'rastanlage hamburg stillhorn' is easy to reach via s-bahn (the suburban train, get off at 'wilhelmsburg' station), then take the metrobus to 'kirchdorf sued', one of hamburg's communal highrise districts. negative about this spot: there is a lot of commuter traffic. most people that fuel their cars would do it in hamburg but not on the autobahn as it is more expensive there. maybe you can also ask at the restaurant which is 100 meters south of the petrol station. you can reach 'bremen' (on A 1), 'hannover' but also 'goettingen' or 'kassel' (on A 7) from here.


country: DE
comment:
  take a close look where the marker is exactly positioned. there is other markers at the gasstation as well as closer to the on-ramp of the autobahn but i found to stand at the traffic light the best opportunity. if you are standing in front of the gasstation you have the problem that cars tend to speed up to 100 km/h even before they have reached the autobahn - at this speed people normally do not stop anymore for a hitchhiker. i have seen people standing there for hours - while i was waiting for five (5) minutes at the same day/time (to catch a berlin - hamburg driver). at the traffic light drivers have the time to decide to take you (- or not). the spot is excellent to reach the northern berlin surroundings, 'schwerin' or 'hamburg'. on my personal rating from "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i rate this spot a "9 to 10". 


country: DE
comment:
  'hamburg - horner kreisel'; an excellent spot to reach 'berlin', 'lÃ¼beck', 'rostock' or to find someone driving in the direction of denmark ('copenhagen' or 'roskilde'). there is a busstop where you can stand, the round-about is a safe (for drivers) and legal (for you) spot to stand at. it should not take more than 20 minutes to find a driver. there is a marker place right on the on-ramp of the autobahn, people tend not to stop at this exact spot anymore as they are already speeding up. don't stand on the autobahn itself after the blue 'autobahn' (bridge/road) sign or a blue square sign showing only a car, it is illegal. find out how to get to 'horner kreisel' via the hamburg public transportation sytem website: www.hvv.de .


country: DE
comment:
  almost each and everybody leaving 'lÃ¼beck' in the direction of 'hamburg' or denmark ('roskilde' or 'copenhagen') has to pass 'the lohmÃ¼hle' kreisel to reach the autobahn "A 1". rated (only) 'good' because it is difficult for drivers to stop, there is no slip road or shoulder to (safely) stop at. you do not need to take the bus to get there; a 10 minutes walk from the DB lÃ¼beck main station will bring you there. there is supermarkets and a mc. donald's restaurant further east (meaning righthand on this map) on 'bei der lohmÃ¼hle' road.


country: DE
comment:
  you can reach 'lÃ¼beck travemÃ¼nde' (and it's 'skandinavienkai' with the helsinki, trelleborg or poland ferry) from here. cars are driving slow and there is a safe space (a road exiting the federal highway) for them to stop. you should not wait longer than 20 minutes. build a sign saying 'helsinki' and drivers will give you a smile...


country: DE
comment:
  a possible relais on the way to sweden or denmark (copenhagen or roskilde); the 'tank und rastanlage neustÃ¤dter bucht', there is only few cars stopping BUT those who stop will NOT be locals/commuters (it is more expensive to fuel your car at a gasstation on the autobahn than in a town). you can also change sides on "A 1" north/south by walking through the tunnel 200 meters south of the rest area, just follow the asphalted road along the autobahn. 


country: DE
comment:
  a good spot to reach almost all beaches (please build a sign with a name) on 'ostsee' (eng.: 'baltic sea') east of rostock such as 'darss weststrand', 'prerow' or 'zingst penisula'. also good to find drivers that take you to 'stralsund' or even further to the island of 'rÃ¼gen'. 


country: DE
comment:
  the intersection to reach the beaches of 'darss penisula', 'fischland' as well as 'zingst penisula'. it is very unsafe to stand on federal highway "B 105" as the cars go very fast, sometimes faster than 100 km/h. walk some 100 meters north on bÃ¤derstraÃŸe (landstraÃŸe) "L 21" to hitch you way out to the dunes!


country: DE
comment:
  a good spot to reach the island of 'rÃ¼gen'; there is a traffic light where all cars (comming from stralsund- city center) that want to reach the newly built 'rÃ¼genbrÃ¼cke' (the bridge) have to stop. stand in the middle of the road where there is a paved (elevated) slip. it should not take longer than 20 to 30 minutes to get to 'bergen' (the islands capital) from here.


country: DE
comment:
  the so called 'traffic light of bergen' on B 96 (ask drivers to let you out 'ger.: ... bei der ampel von bergen'). a good to very good spot to reach 'stralsund' (south) or 'sassnitz'/'stubbenkammer chalk cliffs'/'kap arkona' (north). the light is often -on red- creating (sometimes large) traffic jams, too bad for drivers, perfect for us hitchhikers. 


country: DE
comment:
  an average spot (there is no better one) to travel back from 'sassnitz' to 'bergen' or 'stralsund' on federal highway "B 96". during the last years the intersection has been converted to a small round-about where cars need to slow down = a safe spot for drivers to stop.


country: DE
comment:
  'tank und rastanlage hildesheimer bÃ¶rde' ; an excellent spot to reach 'hannover' as well as 'hamburg' on autobahn "A 7". it took me 10 (in words: 'ten') minutes comming from 'kassel' to change to a driver that took me until 'hamburg' from here. you can also north/south change the sides of "A 7", there is a tunnel 300 meters east of the rest-area. the rastanlage has a lot of traffic comming through even later in the evening.


country: DE
comment:
  a lot of traffic comming through on "A 7" at 'tank und rastanlange gÃ¶ttingen'. you can also north/south change the sides of "A 7" via a bridge. safe even at night with enough traffic even later in the evening. you should not be waiting for longer than 10 minutes on any side ('gÃ¶ttingen east' or '- west') of this 'rastanlage'.


country: DE
comment:
  a busstop on 'dresdener straÃŸe' (L 3237) you can reach with you own "hitchhiker's busline" no (???) from the city center of kassel. cars on this road are driving here sometimes too fast, there is a lot of traffic and every third- or fourth car will continue its journey on autobahn "A 7" (north in the direction of 'gÃ¶ttingen'/'hannover' or south to 'frankfurt'). the busstop makes it very safe (for drivers) and legal (for you) to stand on. on my personal rating from "1" (very-very poor) to "10" (excellent) i will rate this spot a "7 to 8".


country: AU
comment:
  Hitched from Ravensthorpe to Albany in one go this summer. Got a ride in under 15 minutes. Seems like a pretty quiet town, but I'd say there would be OK traffic between Albany and Esperance most of the time.


country: GB
comment:
  Kintyre is a good place to hitchhike - you may offered to be picked up even when you are not hitchhiking! The only downside is that there are few cars.


country: GB
comment:
  The Isle of Arran is a great place to hitchhike, as it has a friendly population. The only downside that it has few cars, except in holiday season.


country: US
comment:
  This truckstop sucks. I was here asking for rides for over five hours with no luck. It didn't help that there were half a dozen tweekers bumming around who scared the drivers and tried to make off with my backpack. I'm sure it's possibile to hitch from here, but I'm not going to try again.


country: FR
comment:
  Pas de place pour s'arrÃªter, pas de visibilitÃ©, trafic rapide! 
  PrivilÃ©gier les villages environnants, quitte Ã  refuser une ou deux fois si la direction ne convient pas.
  No visibility, no place to stop, cars go fast!
  Give priority to the surrounding villages, even if you have to refuse a drive if the direction's not approprite.


country: FR
comment:
  IdÃ©al pour aller vers Avignon! Ã‰ventuellement demander Ã  Ãªtre dÃ©posÃ© lÃ .
  Ideal towards Avignon!
  If possible ask to be dropped there.


country: CH
comment:
  Easy to access by metro M2 (Fourmi)
  Directions Bern, Fribourg, Vevey, Montreux...
  No place to stop easily, but people who are nice will find a way to pick you up without danger. Make sure you are waiting at the place where the 2 lanes become 3 lanes, and not directly at the motorway entrance.


country: CH
comment:
  Direction North or South
  This is the way to Bulle. On the Roundabout, you can stand without danger, people would stop. But the one who took me made me a sign to go at the gas station because he didn't want to stop on the roundabout. Any case good place to hh to Lausanne or Bern


country: ES
comment:
  I hitchhiked towards Murcia. It took 10 minutes or less. I guess it is possible towards Valencia also.


country: FR
comment:
  If your driver don't go in the direction you want in France, you can wait between french and swiss border. For France, there are 3 directions from there : Lyon, Annecy, Chamonix
  So make the good choice, and stand with a sign.
  Pay attention to stay in a saf place, where cars can stop without danger (it is still highway even if drivers go slow)


country: LT
comment:
  Take the bus 16 from train station (Stotis), the ride will take around 20 minuts. Leave the bus at PosÅ«kis bus stop (it's just 50 meters before the bridge under the road, pay attention because it's optional stop). Walk 100 meters and hitch-hike after the junction. There is less local traffic here. 


country: LT
comment:
  Good place to hh, the road is not so wide so everybody can see you. Cars don't go fast here because of the lights and there's ehough place for car to stop.


country: CH
comment:
  There is a wide road shoulder just after a turn, so people can stop relatively safely towards south.


country: CH
comment:
  Vers Sion et le Vaud.
  Les gens vont vite, mais ont de la place pour s'arrÃªter.
  Towards Sion and Vaud. Cars go fast but can stop easily.


country: LU
comment:
  Big petrol station with plenty of traffic to B and NL. You get here by taking the train to Capellen (4th stop from Luxembourg station), a short walk and an easy climb over a fence.


country: AR
comment:
  There is a peaje station, where you can stop cars are talk to the drivers and there is a petrol station very close by.


country: GE
comment:
  if you want to Hitchhike from Tbilisi to west, to the black sea coast, first you should get out from Tbilisi by bus. You can take #84 bus from Tsereteli Avenue or #64 from Chavchavadze Avenue which goes out from Tbilisi and drops you on the main highway from which majority of cars go to the west of Georgia. You should get off bus on David Agmashenebeli Kheivani (Valley), the best one is to get off at Lukoil Gas Station and take a walk about 150 metres and start to hitchhike. You can say Hello in Georgian 'Gamarjoba' to the driver and ask for the ride. 'I have no money' in Georgian is 'Puli ar mak' so you can use this phrase as well in hitching in Georgia. Drivers are super-friendly so you won't have any probs.


country: GE
comment:
  if you want to catch the ride for Kazbegi (Stepantsminda) which is in the Northern Georgia, the Mtskheta Highway is the best way to Hitchhike. Hold the Kazbegi sign with a little smile and you'll get the ride, though it may take some time. be patient and you'll get the ride.


country: GE
comment:
  GUDAURI

  You can reach Gudauri from Mtskheta Highway by Hitchhiking. or you can take a Minibus from Tbilisi. (Gudauri is the most popular ski resort in Georgia.)


country: GE
comment:
  KAZBEGI (STEPANTSMINDA)

  Kazbegi is in the North of Gudauri Ski Resort. If you need hostel to stay, choose the hostel called 'LOMI' which is in the center of Kazbegi. It costs 15 GEL ($10) per night. If you need to come back to Tbilisi try to hicthhike or take a minibus from the same Kazbegi center. Minibus to Tbilisi costs 8 GEL ($6). If you need any help, ask for it to the friendly Police Officers in the Police Station.


country: GE
comment:
  Gori Highway is the best place to hitchhike if you're going to the western Georgia especially. A lot of trucks and cars are passing this highway so you'll catch the ride easily. You can even catch the Turkish trucks going directly to Turkey so pick that up.


country: GE
comment:
  DO NOT get off in the center of Khashuri because its a disaster to get out of it. if this happens stop Taxi and tell him to give you a ride till RIKOTI way. Taxi may cost some $7-8.


country: AT
comment:
  Nice place in the mountains for HH to Klagenfurt, Austria. 
  There's a turn where drivers need to slow down so they can easily stop there at a crossroad with a path located in this turn.


country: AT
comment:
  It seems as a good and safety place for HH to the Czech Republic but not many cars are getting the highway A7 there. 
  I had to change my HH place after two hours.


country: IT
comment:
  When you want to go from Gorizia to Ljubljana than this is place for you. 
  But the traffic is really low.


country: IT
comment:
  Really nice place for HH in the direction to Gorizia and Slovenia. 
  But you will be lucky if you will meet a car there!


country: CZ
comment:
  Quite a good place for HH in direction of Ceske Budejovice and Prague at the border with Austria. Drivers can really safety stop there at a small parking place in front of an exchange office. 
  You can wait longer during the summer because of full cars  with families getting back from summer holidays.
  You can also meet some strange people and prostitutes there - many nightclubs are located at the border. 


country: AT
comment:
  It's really danger place for HH. You can HH there in the direction of the Czech Republic but the only one suitable HH spot there is located at the left side of the end of a ramp. Drivers won't probably want to stop there. 
  But I had luck and somebody stopped. 


country: CZ
comment:
  It's on the left side of the road but it is really nice and speed spot to stop somebody towards Prague.


country: CZ
comment:
  Very common HH spot towards Karlovy Vary and Cheb. It can be also used for the direction of Plzen and Germany.
  It's better to use the sign! - There are many possibilities where to go.

  You will get there by the tram 22 to the terminus "Bila Hora".


country: CZ
comment:
  Very good and safety spot for HH towards Pribram and Prague.
  We were waiting there in 3 people for 5 minutes!


country: AT
comment:
  There's a quite good place for HH at the ramp in direction to Salzburg. There's a small place to stop the car safety.
  We were waiting there for 3 hours but it was really early in the morning (5-8 AM).


country: AT
comment:
  It's probably the best place for HH towards the Czech Republic in Freistadt. It's better than out of the town.


country: AT
comment:
  Really luxury place for HH in the direction of Freistadt and the Czech Republic. 
  It's located about 1 km after the contemporary (2009) end of the highway A7 towards the border with the Czech Rep.


country: BE
comment:
  Direction Antwerpen - Nederland
  Take tram 3 to "De Wand" and hitch on the north part of the roundabout (before direction "ring")


country: BE
comment:
  Direction : North to Nederland (Breda, Amsterdam, Utrecht)
  Good spot with place for cars to stop, and cars going slowly


country: BE
comment:
  Direction North
  Not so much cars passing by here. At least, try not to be dropped here just before the night!


country: UY
comment:
  If you want to hitch hike to Porto Alegre, Pelotas or Rio Grande, the check point on the brazilian side. Is the best place. After people get checked you can easyly ask for a ride. But you need to walk like 2 km out of town!


country: PT
comment:
  folks come and go to surrounding villages from the airport. buses to faro and other places around, depends on your further way.


country: PT
comment:
  Yeah, i know, real estate is killing the local flavour. Bag pipes and german moustachios. Dirt cheap bus through the quite untrampable south to Lisboa though. Not exactly here but somewhere centre-ish.


country: RU
comment:
  Starting position from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg. In 200 meters uphill - cafe, parking spot for trucks.


country: RU
comment:
  Another start point from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg. You need a bus #581 from Rechnoy Vokzal metro station. Ask locals for "Monument"[m-o-n-u-'m-e-n-t] stop


country: RU
comment:
  HH spot. No lights, but enough space for truck for comfort stop. If you are going to Moscow, but your driver goes to V. Novgorod - it's your choice.


country: CZ
comment:
  Good place for hitchhiking. In middle of holiday you can catch many cars to Croatia. I catch car to middle Croatia after 2 minutes! A few meters from this position is a big shoping centre and petrol station.


country: CA
comment:
  Not much space for people to stop, but I waited about 5 minutes there on a Sunday morning with an "Ottawa" sign and got a ride past Kingston.


country: NL
comment:
  For the direction of Den Haag/The Hague this is a good spot. Stand on the island inbetween the road comming and going towards katwijk. There is quite a bit of traffic passing by and the drivers are on your side. Bring a sign!


country: NL
comment:
  Excellent place to get out if you do not want to go into Amsterdam but rather towards the east. Try to get a ride at least to the A1, which is the main road that ends up going to the east. Once you are on the A'dam Ring, it can be hard to find such a ride. Also a good spot to go into A'dam ofcourse.


country: NL
comment:
  Good spot to take off towards Amsterdam, stand on the behind the bikepath, near the pedestrian crossing. Behind it is a good space for cars to stop (soft shoulder). Bring a sign, because a thumb will often keep you waiting for 15+ minutes.


country: NL
comment:
  Average spot to hitchhike from but still doable. Stand before the sign demarking the start of the highway and bring a sign. I usually get a ride within half an hour. 
  I believe it might be due to the fact there is a asylumseeker 'camp' near it and people are a bit xenophobic.... :-/


country: CH
comment:
  In winter, when the pass is closed, ask the people waiting for the train with their car! Tey will take you to the other side, direction Uri/Luzern or GraubÃ¼nden!


country: CH
comment:
  In winter, direction Realp and Furkapass, better is to stop in Hospental or to walk from Andermatt to this city until you find a good spot.


country: CZ
comment:
  If you are willing to go to Poland (Wroclaw) through Hradec Kralove and couldn't find a ride on another place. You can give a shot here.
  It's an highway and not good place to stop. But for us it took seconds to find a ride. (maybe luck)


country: PL
comment:
  It's a good place to reach Krakow. Many cars from Warsaw use this way I think. Cars are not so fast and there is a place to stop. 5-10 minutes waiting.


country: CH
comment:
  Excellent! Mieux que le tÃ©lÃ©phÃ©rique pour redescendre sur Chalais. 
  Temps d'attente moyen: 4 minutes.


country: DE
comment:
  Hermsdorf Service Station East

  direction berlin is ok all day, direction A4 westbound may take a while - esp. after 22:00 it's often better to go on until Osterfeld (25km) and change sides there (bridge provided) - especially if your lifter would stay on the A9 anyway.


country: DE
comment:
  it#s a service station, great if you want to get to berlin quickly. and there's a free toilet. many trucks stopping by, just ask at the station.


country: DE
comment:
  you can see which cars are going towards berlin and dresden, but staying here is quite dangerous, there's a police station nearby so you can get caught, and even if drivers want to help you, not many will stop since their speed is over 100km/h. if you end up here; you can always hope for a rescue from someone who feels sorry for you and is quick enough to stop before A13.


country: PL
comment:
  in august 2009 i tried to reach berlin from this spot. there is many cars driving by (also cars with a german license plate), there is also a good (meaning: safe) chance to stop but after more than an hour no car was stopping. a while later someone took me to the nearby autobahn-interchange. on my personal rating from 1 to 10 (1 very poor to 10 excellent) i can rate this spot a '5'. 


country: PL
comment:
  to go to BERLIN you can almost stand -on- the entrance ramp to the autobahn. there is only few cars driving around but who passes this point mostly is on a longdistance trip in the direction of germany. from here you can also see a petrol-station (on the field, near the autobahn) only 300 meters east. i tried to hitch from there but the station is almost dead - there were 10 cars passing by in half an hour. if no one takes you from the entrance ramp marked here (or the nearby petrol-station) you should walk another 3 km west along the autobahn to another two petrol stations where ther is definitly more cars that tend to fill-up.


country: PL
comment:
  i was hitching from here to SZEZECIN (stettin). the spot is safe for cars to stop on a hard (asphalt) shoulder - even though many drivers tend to speed at this place (meaning: to drive faster than 100 km/h). on my personal rating from 1 to 10 (1 poor/ 10 excellent) this spot gets a '7': it is safe and drivers can see you although the average speed of cars is too fast. the traffic light only 200 meters west is not better, it is too often on 'green' for cars on the federal highway - and cars have no safe place to stop there.


country: PL
comment:
  this is a very good spot to hitchhike in the direction of SZCZECIN (stettin) and BERLIN (germany). in summer 2009 there was an ongoing road construction work at this place so cars had to drive slow. also: if there are trains passing on the track crossing the road all cars have to stop. if you feel hungry - there is a MAKRO hypermarket next to this spot (not shown on this map). on my personal rating from 1 to 10 (1 = poor, 10 = excellent) this place i want to rate with a 9.  


country: PL
comment:
  there is a traffic light at this spot where all the cars on federal highway number 6 have to stop. it is an excellent spot to reach KOSZALIN (koeslin) but also SZCZECIN (stettin). there is almost no space to stand near the road but since all drivers have to slow down and stop i can recommend it as 'safe'. on my personal rating from 1 to 10 (1 poor/ 10 excellent) i can rate this spot a '10'. you should wait (and choose) until some driver can take you to your day's final destination and should not accept 'a lift to somewhere' from this very good place...


country: PL
comment:
  from this traffic light you have a good chance to get a ride to SLUPSK as well as KOSZALIN. the light often signals 'red' for highway number 6 so all cars have to stop. there is heavy traffic on this road but if you build a cardboard-sign many drivers get in contact with you visually (they make sings with their hands). there is also a supermarket only 200 meters north of here if you feel hungry. on my personal scale from 1 to 10 (1 = poor, 10 = excellent) i want to rate this spot an '8'.


country: PL
comment:
  any place on this road is good to hitchhike out of the 'gdansk gdynia sopot / tricity-area' in western direction. there is a lot of cars only commuting (meaning: driving around locally) so ask before how far someone can take you. on my personal rating from 1 to 10 (1 = poor, 10 = excellent) i want to give this place a '7'.


country: GB
comment:
  London Gateway services. Whether or not this is a good space depends on where you're coming from. If you have just started your trip out of London going north then avoid this spot if possible. It's so close to London that people are unlikely to stop here - their journey has only just begun so why stop. Staples Corner is probably a better bet. 


country: GB
comment:
  Roundabout just by the entrance to M1 junction 11. This is not a great spot by any means - I only used it by necessity. However, I guess if you're starting your journey in Luton this might be a decent spot. Alternatively try Flamstead services just off the motorway at junction 9. A trucker told me he thought that would be a better bet.


country: GB
comment:
  Bolton West service station. I have never used these services to hitch from, but I have stopped there several times as a driver. I would speculate that it's a bad spot for hitching. The service area is very run down and last time I went it was due for major refurbishment. I'm not saying don't use it, but maybe it's best to avoid if you can find another way.


country: NO
comment:
  an ideal place to HH towards Oslo.If things don't seem to well then try the turist info point&fast food place across the highway.Take rides at least to Voss on E16.


country: NO
comment:
  Shell Gas Station.That won't take you long to get a ride towards Oslo from this spot.You may eighter go for a straight shot or try to get yourself till Hemsedalen.Short waiting time even in the winter.


country: NO
comment:
  Esso Gas Station.Very good for Oslo direction.If you are heading opposite direction from Oslo do not get off here and try to stay in a gas station in FlÃ¥.


country: GB
comment:
  Lay-by bus stop before traffic lights with covered shelter. Nearly all traffic heading out of Cambridge city center heading south passes here. Local shops and petrol station just to the north, supermarket just to the south.


country: GB
comment:
  Bus stop lay-by - no covered shelter. Between traffic lights and pelican crossing. Next to supermarket. Traffic heading from Exeter city center west (A30 - Okehampton, Launceston, Bodmin) and (probably) south (A38 - Plymouth; A380 - Newton Abbot, Totnes). All good for Cornwall.


country: ES
comment:
  Good place to hitchhike both ways: Valencia & Alicante.
  Average 1h of waiting. Police is also interested about your activity.


country: ES
comment:
  best place to hitchhike towards Castellon. About 1min of waiting. And train from Valencia just 3euros.


country: DE
comment:
  We stayed here 8hours waiting for a car to Frankfurt am Oder. It's better to get to the center of Berlin and then somehow by bus or metro go to other side of Berlin in this highway.


country: PL
comment:
  That's your way to Poznan. But don't take a ride to Inowroclaw or other smaller cities, because you'll stuck there.


country: LT
comment:
  Bus station is good place for a car to stop. And the speed here is 70km/h. So there's no problems to get a ride here towards Kaunas or Vilnius.


country: AR
comment:
  There is a petrol station which cars have to pass, which are going out of the city. You can find a ride to the South and to the North as well.


country: AR
comment:
  There is a petrol station situated, where you can find rides to Chile as well as to the north of Argentina and Bolivia.


country: FR
comment:
  Both Directions Bordeaux or Clermont-Ferrand/Lyon

  This is a big toll station (PÃ©age). All the cars going from/to Bordeaux/Clermont pass through here.

  Waiting time : 15min to 45 min


country: FR
comment:
  All directions : Limoges, Bordeaux, Brive, Toulouse, Clermont-Ferrand

  You can hitch in this petrol station called "Aire de la CorÃ¨ze", it is a popular place to stop and rest for the drivers.


country: FR
comment:
  Directions : Lyon/St-Etienne, Moulins, Paris

  Take Tram A and stop at "Les Pistes", walk 5 minutes on "Boulevard Edgar Quinet", following "A71" signs. Hitch just after the big roundabout.


country: FR
comment:
  If you go to MÃ¢con or Clermont-Ferrand, from Moulin, this a a good hitching place, just after the roundabout.

  Trucks and people from the north leave the N7 to change on the N79 just at this roundabout.


country: FR
comment:
  Directions : Chamonix, Geneva/Annecy

  Good place if you go to Italy through the Mont-Blanc Tunnel in Chamonix


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Italy

  It is the easiest point to go to Italy : All the cars passing by here go through the Mont-Blanc Tunnel

  Wait just after the roundabout (not further, it may be dangerous).


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : only Annecy/Grenoble, Geneva, Lyon

  DO NOT hitch here if you go to Chamonix! You have to go to the next Highway exit at the east of the city...


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : North

  Hitch here, with a sign "A1" meaning you want to go to the motorway that goes to north, Lille, Belgium. You can also write your destination.
  Someone would at least propose to take you to the next petrol station "Courneuve" : good spot

  Take metro to "Porte de la Chapelle". There is a traffic light on this big roundabout, cross carrefully the road and stay on the left side of the entrance of this motorway, there is a place for cars to stop safely.


country: NL
comment:
  Direction : Breda, Belgium

  Last station before Breda, if your driver stops in Breda, and you go to south, make the transfer here. 


country: BE
comment:
  Try to avoid this roundabout, no place to stop for cars.
  However, I could have a ride to gent after 20min from a nice and crazy old guy... But I would try to hitch on another point later...


country: BE
comment:
  Direction : France, Paris

  Last station before the border. Gas is cheaper in Belgium so people stop here to fill their tanks before entering France.

  Good point if your driver goes not so far further and you have still a long way...


country: FR
comment:
  I was dropped here by a friendly guy who thought it would be nice. I was stupid to rely this time : There is no place for cars to stop, it is dangerous, few cars are really going to the next toll station or to south, and... and gave up after 2h and took a bus back to Paris...


country: TR
comment:
  Direction : Georgia, Rize

  Walk 30min from the city center (or take a Dolmus)

  The satellte is old, but in real, there is a ramp with enough place to stop and pick you up.


country: TR
comment:
  Direction : Ardahan, Kars

  One advice, don't get stuck here late, roads are old and 100km are done in at least 2 hours in those mountains.
  Besides, even in summer, those mountains may be very cold and it may snow. (it happened to me, but I was lucky to be picked up really fast and that the guy was heading to Kars)


country: AM
comment:
  Road to Dogubayazit

  And a wonderfull scennery!

  Ask in the city if someone can bring you there, people are friendly and should help you, so you won't walk too much in this big city.


country: TR
comment:
  You may get a ride here to Maku, but take care that the people make it for free.
  Generally, drivers arriving from Turkey know the hitchhiking and would help you, but after, all the iranians don't really know about it and may ask you money.


country: BG
comment:
  Perfect place for HH to Sofia. It's near to semaphore and Gas station. There is a old railway (don't work right now) and cars drive slow because of this.


country: SE
comment:
  two petrolstations, statoil and OKQ8. Alot of cars, many of them heading north for example Stockholm. Hitched from here twice with no problems. Close walk from central NorrkÃ¶ping and the centralstation is always positive.


country: SE
comment:
  rest area, pull-off with a Mcdonalds, petrolstation(statoil) and a truckstop. Non walkable from norrkÃ¶ping, but really good if you get droped here. Cars are heading in both directions, south and north. Very easy to get ride from here :)


country: SE
comment:
  maybe the best place for getting south. Petrolstation(statoil) and a truckstop. very easy to find a car fast and if you have patience its quite easy to find ride very long for example gothenburg or malmÃ¶.


country: CA
comment:
  friendly safe haven esp in bad weather (it gets cold here), 'Wits End'at Riverside Motel,Hadashville, MB  on transcanada hwy


country: HU
comment:
  a very good spot to stand, we (2) waited for 4 minutes to get a ride to budapest in february 2010. there is a lot of traffic comming from the federal highway 85 from SOPRON that is entering the autobahn here(travelling in eastward direction). on my personal rating from "1" to "10" (1 = poor, 10 = excellent) i give a "9 to 10" to this place.


country: HU
comment:
  i was not hitching from here but someone let me out at this place on a vienna - gyoer trip in january 2010. the petrol station seems to be busy and cars that stop (fuel/rest) here definitely travel furtheron to BUDAPEST or in the direction of romania/bulgaria.


country: FR
comment:
  Last gas station before Lille. Very good to go direction of Kortrijk or Ghent, Belgium. Never waited more then 15 minutes! 


country: FR
comment:
  Take tram 1 and jump off at La Courneuve, 6 routes. Walk for 500 meters and go round the fence (on your right). You have to walk downhill through some bushes to get at the station. Or just try the door, it is open often, but you have to pull very hard! 

  Waiting time direction Lille/Belgium: 10 minutes


country: SE
comment:
  pull-off, rest area with a petrolstation and a small foodplace. was dropped here and found a new ride faster than 5minutes.


country: SE
comment:
  theres a spot for cars to stop but i took over 3 hours to get ride from here.. and theres many cars going on this road..


country: AU
comment:
  Hitching along the eastcoast was really easy. Never waited longer than 15min. Even with two big backpacks. Met funny people and had a lot of fun.


country: RO
comment:
  Should you need to go towards Miercurea Nirajului, this is the spot to try. One might have to wait a bit, but not necessarily.


country: RO
comment:
  If you have been droopped off here and need to get going again.
  But it's not the place to go for a lonely girl.


country: RO
comment:
  An acceptable place to continue if dropped off at this junction. Not a place for lonely girls at night, though.(this is where I meant  to write it, sorry for the mistake)


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Bordeaux (or Biscarrosse)

  Exit of Arcachon, very large place for cars to stop, to see you, and they go slow. 

  You will easily get a lift, especially after 3pm when people leave the city


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Biscarrosse (others see below)
  If the driver don't go directly to Biscarrosse, wait for another. There will be plenty. Because between this roundabout (Dune du Pyla) and Biscarrosse, people just drive 120km/h and won't stop or even see you in those 30km of nowhereland.

  Direction : Arcachon
  Prefer to hitch on the D259 towards east, because it's the easiest way to reach Arcachon for drivers, even if it's seems the same distance on the map with the D218 (going through villages)

  Direction : Bordeaux
  Hitch D259 towards east


country: FR
comment:
  Direction : Arcachon

  80% of cars go to Arcachon (some of them Bordeaux). It is one of the 2 exit from this town.

  20min walking from the beach. follow Arcachon signs. Hitching place on a parking in front of a hotel


country: BE
comment:
  At the entry of the tunnel there is a bus lane.
  It is'nt often used so you can wait here for a lift.
  Cars driving slow, so very great spot!


country: FR
comment:
  Lyon to Geneva:
  How to get to the gas station onto the highway. 

  Take bus 171 from "Hotel de ville" next to river in Lyon (dep at hours 03/33, weekend only 33). Bus takes about 45 mins and costs 2 euros one way. nice journey btw. Along the way lots of big supermarkets in case you need food. Leave the bus at Montluel train station which is the second last. You will see the train station when you pass, so dont panic. Trains are faster and have to be taken from the main station in Lyon. 
  Get off and turn right, cross under the railway tracks. Then you will enter the industrial area in Montluel. i got lost there but try to find Rue des ChartiniÃ¨res to cross the motorway. You will have to turn left earlier to get to Rue ChartiniÃ¨res. Once you have crossed the bridge turn left and follow the road close to the highway. There is a small space to enter the gas stations, only for pedestrians, behind the little house at the end of the parking lot. 

  I hitched on a saturday  morning. traffic is ok but people go all directions in france from there. You just need to be patient and also accept to get to the next gas station (Ceignes). that one is much bigger and offers more options


country: FR
comment:
  From Lyon to Geneva. Gas Station Valleiry: Last spot to get dropped off before the huge intersections (Annemasse, Chambery/Milan) if your driver does not go to Geneva. I cought the wrong day but think it should be ok to find a lift from there. try the earlier gas station if possible. 

  Avoid week-ends because everybody is going to the french alps only which you dont want to! 

  However: 
  This spot might be really good for going south.

  Not sure if you can get there by foot, you must find out, if yes, theres the possibility to catch the train to St-Julien and from there cross Geneva by public transport. 


country: CH
comment:
  From Lausanne to Bern/Fribourg. Trolleybus to Chalet A Gobet. Or even get off earlier than there. National 1 to Bern. Lots of space for cars to stop, but they go fast. Better if you walk back. But as this is a national road only, its easily accessible. Since public transport form Lausannto to the countrysite are poor, many hitchhikers and many cars will stop. 


country: CH
comment:
  I wouldnt say its a great spot as i waited about an hour there once to get to Zurich. Especially now with the bad roadworks. Sign is absolutely necessary. But the good thing is that there is  much space for cars to stop, cars go slowly too and can see you well. Bus 11 to the Park & Ride. 


country: CH
comment:
  TO Fribourg/Lausanne: 
  difficult to hitch. Most cars go to Bern only in that direction or Murten. Be patient and keep asking. Some go only to Flamatt/DÃ¼dingen just before Fribourg. You should still accept as from there you will easily get a lift further westbound. If you find somebody to Fribourg or even further from here, you are really lucky! I hitched here many times and it has always been difficult to cross the city. 

  There is a possibility to get to this gas station by food ant S-Bahn. 


