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'''Perpignan''' is a nice little city that connects [[France]] with [[Barcelona]]. There isn't a lot to see here, but [[User:Carl|Carl]] ended up here after failing to get a lift from Barcelona, and you may well end up doing the same. It's the first main town entering [[France ]] from Spain, and so a useful place to change vehicles.
[[Image:Perpignan_bridgeoveronramp.jpg|right|thumb|266px|The southward view from the bridge over the autoroute.]]
To get to the peage (pay toll) by public bus, the best is to take the line NB3, direction Pascot. Get out on the last stop, then walk until the end of "Avenue Pascot", then go left on "Route de Canohes" until you see the big road (road D900). Go on right and follow this road for few hundred metres untill the toll.
From this toll you can easily get a lift north or south. There is a international fruit and vegetable market (Saint Charles Market) close to this toll, many trucks coming from there are entering the autoroute here going to both [[Spain ]] and France.
If you go to Toulouse, it is best to use a sign and accept only lifts going there, because 60 km north in Narbonne, the highway spilts. Equally, if you want to go to Montpellier, don't accept a lift to someone going in the Toulouse direction.
If you're going to [[Spain ]] and your driver is only going to Le Boulou (witch is the last exit before Spain), don't get out on the last petrol station, called "Village Catalan"; on the map it looks like the last best place to hitchhike but no one going to [[Spain ]] stops here because petrol is cheaper on the other side of the border. So go to Le Boulou but ask your driver to drop you out at the final peage where all the traffic will have to stop, and not at the small one on the sliproad, which is used only by locals to exit and leave the highway.
[[Category:France]]
