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[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] and [[User:Amylin|amylin]] were dropped at There is a good motorway entry south from highway entrace South of Firenze. You might be able to can get here with bus no number 36 or 37, get off at the stop 'Le Rose'.
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Untested, but the other side of the autogrill listed for going south should have plenty of traffic going north past Firenze.
Another option: [[User:Fedcas|Fedcas]] took the train from Firenze to Pratignone (eur 1,90, about 20 min), then it's a 5 min walk to the A1 highway (see the spot on the map, Pratignone is N-W from Florence, where A1 crosses A11). It's a big commercial area so there are lot of trucks during the working days. There's also a bus that goes out here from around the train station (no. 2?) and still operates after the trains have stopped. Can be blackrode easily.
Another great spot in this area is a big petrol station (also see map). Directions: from Pratignone station walk southward on Via di Pratignone. Turn left on Via degli Olmi, cross the bridge over the highway and turn right on Via di Limite. You will walk through a little tunnel and see a few houses on your right; after you´ve passed the last house, walk on the dirt to your right and step over a little fence to reach the highway. There´s a gap in the sound-wall through which you can get behind it. Now you´re on the highway exit-road and there´s a fence between you and the petrol station. Turn left and just walk a bit towards the highway to pass the fence.
Yet another option: take a bus from the train station (Santa Maria Novella) to the airport, where the A11 highway starts. (The best option is to take the bus that goes to the airport, as there are many busy intersecting highways in the area that are difficult to cross if you don't get dropped off in the right place.) There is a petrol station on via Vialle Alessandro Guidoni, near where the highway starts.
=== South towards [[Rome]], [[Napoli]] {{European Route Number|35}} , towards [[Sienna]] ===
You can stand underneath a bridge, way before the usual big sign saying "No autostop".
When hitchhiking to Pisa, try to go by motorway Firenze-Mare, which you can reach by going to the airport.
Don't go by the federal road, there are no petrol stations and lots of "No autostop" signs.
From the train station Santa Maria Novela, get on the tram line T1 in the direction of "Villa Costanza" (you can't go in the wrong direction anyway, the train station is the beginning/end of the line). Get out at "Talenti" stop (just before the tram goes underground). Go on your left (when going out of the tram) and reach the roundabout. There starts the highway to Pisa-Livorno called "Viale Etruria" at this point (becoming SGC Firenze-Pisa-Livorno a few hundreds meters away). You can try to hitch hike from the roundabout or try at the petrol station further on the road, about 15 minutes by foot from the roundabout where you will catch more traffic.
== Sleeping ==
''Parco di Rusciano'' (Southern side of river Arno, 20 min walk from city-centre) is a very nice place to pitch camp. Very quite area. Only one entrance to the park (or two, not sure). Very nice green grass to crash on, olive trees to set a hammock, salvage mint to make herb teas and laurel tree for cooking experiments. But it seems that Firenze is nicely surrounded by green areas, so you should be able to find other great spots somewhere else. Rainy-weather dry spots are a bit harder to find.
== Internet ==
If you have European ID, you can register for free at the "Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze" (and probably in other libraries) and you have unlimited time access to a computer with Internet. It's open from 8.15 to 19:00 from Monday to Friday and from 8.15 to 13.30 on Saturdays.
Otherwise there are a lot a "Internet Points" in the centre, where it is eur 1 per hour (you can't ask for less than an hour), and they are open later at night and on Sundays.
== Public transportation ==
Bus drivers are unconcerned by you having tickets, or not.
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