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There is a good petrol-station along the C33 (which leads to the Autopista del Mediterraneo, AP7/ E15) just 10 minutes away from Barcelona city center by train. You can find cars going to Girona, Figueres and sometimes eve much further, straight into France.
:Directions: Take a ''Renfe'' train from "Barcelona-Passeig de Gracia" (there are even more trains from "Barcelona-Sants") -- on the R2 or R2 Nord line, direction: Granollers Centre (R2) or Macanet-Massanes (R2 Nord). Get off at station Montcada i Reixac. This train will take you about 20 minutes and costs €2,15 (2014). Exit the train station to the left, through the second exit in the direction of the train. Walk under the railways and pass through the station building. At the other side you will find yourself at a small shopping district with a one way street. Follow it to the right. Pass the church, traffic lights, and cross the pedestrian bridge. Once over the bridge, turn left and follow the fenced in school playground around to the right. You should now see the motorway above you and parking below the motorway. Continue following the motorway until you see the road dip down and to the right under the railroad. Go under the bridge. Up ahead and to your left you will see a very broken vertical turnstile and a sign saying "forbidden" (see a picture here: http://imgur.com/MLxJc29). Ignore the sign and follow the foot path to the right, to the service road along the motorway. This service road goes right into the back of a service station (Galp Gas petrol station). Hitch there by asking around, or with a sign where the exits converge. Keep in mind that the toll is only two kilometers ahead, so try for shorter distances to get past the toll and onto a different rest stop. [[User:sovereign|Sovereign]], after waiting for 15 minutes (standing, with sign) at the Galp station was told by an employee to fly a sign with "Girona" instead of "FR". Girona works far better and there is another station before and after Girona.
This option worked very well for us (Steffi and Manu), the spot is easy to find, the description above is very good! takes about half an hour form Passeig de Gracia, people were helpful at the petrol station, we got a ride all the way to Switzerland.
''Note: If you have a map, and try to find the directions below on it, you will find that they make no sense. It is very likely that your map does NOT display the brand new high-speed train tracks that pass 10m north of the train station. DO NOT follow your map, follow the instructions. Or follow the map link that is provided below.''
From the train station, take the dirt road that leads out and cross under the railway tracks on your right. Walking on this road, you'll come across a surfaced road on your right, that will lead to a bigger road. When you reach this bigger road, you'll see a bridge on your right. Turn left here, and then immediately to the right, to a small street, at the end of which you can see a "stop" sign from the distance. Go straight until it turns into a dirt road, keep going on the dirt road until you reach the gas petrol station. There will be other roads left and right, ignore them. This whole walk from the station to the service station shouldn't take you much more than 30 minutes (besides, you can find signs on the last road that directly takes you to the service station, showing you that you're on the right way to the "área de servicio").
If you are trying to get to Madrid and you use this route, stay on the side going south and try putting Lleida on your sign. [http://maps.google.de/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=BV-1501&daddr=BV-1501+to:41.468055,1.978912&hl=en&geocode=FY3TeAIdtQoeAA%3BFUzeeAIdvAceAA%3B&mra=dme&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=16&via=1&sll=41.469149,1.978118&sspn=0.007943,0.01929&ie=UTF8&ll=41.471769,1.97505&spn=0.007942,0.01929&t=h&z=16 Way to walk] and [http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=41469502&x=1974599&z=16&l=0&m=s&v=2 Location]
Experiences:
:This place is not recommendable for going south or west... A worker of the gas petrol station says that people arrive there and end up sleeping 1 or 2 days. Also the entrance from the highway to this gas petrol station is 10km before the gas petrol station. Most of that cars that passed in this place were going to barcelona center... Use option 1, much better.
=== South towards [[Valencia]] ===
You can take the country road towards Tarragona as well.
We took a metro to the second last stop of the red line (Bellvitge) and walked three minutes on Rambla Marina towards Avenida de la Granvia de l'Hospitalet. We then hitched a couple of minutes in the [http://goo.gl/maps/E5I8X traffic lights] and got our first ride (if you go up to the Granvia there is a gas petrol station right there [http://goo.gl/maps/Zkabc gas petrol station] but we did not know it). After four more fairly easy rides we were in Valencia. --[[User:Astikain|Astikain]] ([[User talk:Astikain|talk]]) 15:29, 24 April 2013 (CEST)
=== North West towards [[Andorra]] ===
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