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In the early morning (06:00-07:00) a lot of people that live in Marseille go to work to Fos, so it's definitely the best time to be there. Try putting your destination directly on the sign you have (especially if it's big cities like Montpellier or Toulouse everyone will know where it is), your driver might actually give you further advice on how to go there.
To Montpellier and further you don't have to take the highway A7 and A54 (too much of a detour), the other road A55 and N568, passing by Martigues, Fos, through camargue and Arles is the one most people will take (to not pay the tolls) and is even shorter. Plus it is a nice place to see the Rhone's delta (Camargue) landscape.
January 2019: Not a lot of people were driving towards Fos at 11am-2pm. With not much traffic, traffic-light hitching from that spot was more difficult, as there were only a few cars at a time Metro to Bougainville station and they didn't stop long enough, and there was nowhere for them walk to pull over. Maybe going early would've worked betterpetrol station called "Briançon Métro station" ([https://goo.Also if you give up and get a train gl/maps/hDWxuyMwYb2L1y7t7 here link to Fos-sur-Mer it's not easy to get on the motorway again. (Ivy ended up sneaking through the big IMERYS factory, jumping a big fence, and walking a bit along the motorway to get to a small Total services. Do not recommendplace in google maps]).Place is still in town
Update on February 2020: No one stopped in the traffic lights just before the A7 ramp to the highway and there's no really other possibilities to directly jump into that highway from the city. Finally, what it worked for me was to go to a petrol station inside the city.
In my case, I took the tram and went to the last stop (Arenc), from there I walked until a peculiar petrol station called "Briançon service station" ([https://goo.gl/maps/hDWxuyMwYb2L1y7t7 here link to the place in google maps]) and thumbed up from there. Note that area of Marseille is not very safe and the petrol station has not really an indoor space, so I wouldn't recommend to go there at night.
Sidenote: There's a very bad air pollution in Fos-sur-Mer. Personally, I'd recommend Train to leave that place as soon as possible or even try to not stop by there.Aéroport Marseille Provence and search for Agip fuel station on A7 highway 1 km away
* Test option - Total petrolstation on A50. Go by bus 12 till stop HLM la Rouguière. Petrol station is 300 metres away You can stand on the entrance to the [[L'Autoroute de Soleil]] (A7), 3 minutes' walk northwest from the central station Gare Saint Charles. From the station main entrance, follow the blue road signs.
* Another option is to travel by bus to Aix en Provence (6 Euros) and from there either to Avignon or to Nice.
* It is highly recommended to first go north via A7 and then take the A8. The alternative - A50 east to [[Toulon]] and then up to A8 - is by far less frequented, since the highway goes directly through the city of Toulon, with traffic lights and speed limits.
Got an easy ride to Toulon from a decent Good spot is on Bd Vincent Delpuech just before the roundabout where the A50 begins. Nice open space opposite traffic lights with an extra lane for drivers to pull over in good time.
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=== North-West by A55, towards [[Montpellier]], [[Toulouse]], [[Barcelona]], [[Arles]] ===
Take the metro/tramway to La Joliette or Euroméditerranée Gantès and walk down the main street (Boulevard de Dunkerke) for Dunkerkefor a few blocks. There is the highway North-West (A55) that starts there (it's a bridge going up so it's better to stand at the traffic light just before it). A lot of the cars leaving from that point can take you out of Marseille's metropolis and leave you at Fos-sur-Mer, where the road is only one-lane and it's easy to get another lift.
=== North or West by A7, towards A8, [[Aix-en-Provence]], [[Avignon]], [[Lyon]], or [[Nice]] ===
Get a lift to the [[péage]], or the big [[petrol station]] "Lançon" and you'll easily get a ride to Lyon, Montpellier or anywhere further.
=== East to [[Nice]] and [[Italy]] and [[Toulon]] ===
Stand just before the entrance of the motorway [[Toulon]], [[Aubagne]] :
boulevard Rabatau, just in front of the Kyriad Hotel or Boulevard Jean Moulin, just after the last trafic light, at the entrance of the motorway which turns on the left. With a sign Nice it'll work!
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I stayed at the above spot a few days ago; it really is in many ways a perfect spot. I was not bothered by the police, there is a grocery store (Casino), a cheap kebab place, and a cafe with wifi across the street. There are also public showers (typical outdoor cold water beach showers), which are great. However, be warned that around 4:30 AM, some sprinklers turned on and continued until about 5:30. I only stayed there the one night so was unable to observe if there are places not covered by the fountains, but the big field might be a good spot. I also noticed Also a tractor combing the beach itself in the morning, so if you camp on the sand you will be woken up / run over. - 4 June 2017
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