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'''Perpignan''' is a nice little city cozy town that connects [[France]] with [[Barcelona]]. There isn't a lot much to see here, but [[User:Carl|Carl]] ended if you happen to end up here after failing to get a lift from Barcelonathere, and you may it is well end up doing the sameworth a visit. It's is the first main bigger town when entering [[France]] from Spain, and so a useful place to change vehicles.

Travelling When traveling North, it is is probably best recommended to wait by the traffic lights on [http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=42.700037,2.886615&spn=0.011591,0.022509&t=h&z=16&om=1&msid=107047389499788319963.0004367e4251f21521864 Cours Lazare Escarguel], where traffic does occasionally stopstops. It's is possible to get a lift from here to an entrance to the autoroute ramp further along. Walking to the autoroute is a very long, but very nice morning activity. Just follow the signs for Barcelona out of the city. You'll walk for hours probably, through many roundabouts and at one point you even have to go on a sort of nature walk ([[Zac]] can't remember what prompted this, but there was an obvious reason and a clearly cut trail through the woods that passed under a bridge) a and eventually you'll get to a long, lonely but beautiful road with viniards on either side. Keep going and eventually you'll get to the autoroute onramp situated on a bridge over the A9. You can stop here if you want to try your luck, or you can go to the [[Péage]] which is visible from the bridge. Just follow the road down there and cut into the woods to get around and come out on the south side of the Péage. From there you can thumb a ride and there's even a parking area big enough for a lorry to stop for you. Note: getting to the other side of the Péage involves crossing a creek and jumping one or more fences! Attempt at your own peril (or pleasure!)up.

To get to the peage (pay toll) by public bus, the best is to take the line number 3, 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 North or southSouth. There is a an international fruit and vegetable market (''Saint Charles Market'') close to this toll, many trucks coming that come from there are entering enter the autoroute here going through this toll to go both to [[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 North in [[Narbonne, ]] the highway spiltssplits. Equally, if you want to go to [[Montpellier]], don't accept a lift lifts that don't bring you directly to someone going in the Toulouse directionyour destination.

If you're going to [[Spain]] and your driver is only going driving to [[Le Boulou ]] (witch which is the last exit before Spain), don't get avoid getting 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(as of 2008). So Instead, go to Le Boulou but ask your driver to drop you out off at the final peage ''barrières de péage'' where all the traffic will have to stop, and (not at the to mix it with a small one toll barrier on the sliproad, which is used only by locals to exit and leave the highway).