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''Summer 2018 & 2022: It's good hitchhiking experience but sometimes you need to wait a bit (15min to 90min). In 2018 hitchhiking was not hard as it still in 2022. Polish style of driving is somewhere near "respectable citizen" and "crazy driver". So, basically they don't brake the law (stop in the forbidden area) but they can do it if needed. The only problem are autobahns which are not "hitchhiker friendly", it's hard to get there and hard to find a car stopping there. In the autobahn (on the good spot) I was waiting nearly 2h and no one stoped due to a too big traffic. They have good gas stations, where you can almost take an "small improvised shower". Two times I was picked up by one driver who called his friend to get me further, so the "local radio" is working well.''

''Summer 2023: I transited through Poland in 2011, and it was ok, even though roads were not that great back then. I traveled and hitchhiked around country summer 2023, roads are excellent, but hitchhiking was very very bad for my standards (70 countries and 239.000 km so far). Poles do not stop at non-designated area (for examples: bus stops), very rare to see it. Even once I had a problem with cops in a small village for the reason I was on the open village road, haha. There was roundabout, and I was standing right after it, where people ride 30km per hour. I had to move otherwise fine. Waiting times are pretty high, from 30 min to 3 hours. I rarely waited even one hour in last 15 hitching years. Even highway petrol stations are not that great places, which was strange to me. Poland is the country where people know very well what hh-ing is, but for some reason, very few of them do it these days. Could be Ukraine war affected that, who knows. User: Tales''