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A general ''problem'' is that lots of people take the National Road next to the motorway because it's free. There it is not that good to hitchhike because there aren't as many petrol stations.
The [http://www.tuzsa.es/resources/mapaDiurno.pdf bus] #28 is not the best choice to hitchhike out of '''Zaragoza'''. You will get to a kind of good looking point with a petrol station and a red-light before the motorway but you will soon figure out that not even 10% of the cars go on the motorway. Most of them just cross it over on the bridge. Now [[User:Fabzgy|Fabzgy]] would rather try his luck with the bus 29 and get of as close to the cross of the city motorway.
Wladi tried the bus28-thing: It really doesn't work! Better to follow the "Ronda Hispanidad Z-30" (Wladi hasn't tried yet - finally he took the alsa.es-bus to Barcelona) to get to the motorway access.
By the way - the second petrol station is bigger but not really on the motorway. So try the first one after '''Zaragoza''' if your driver doesn't go far.
Barcelona --- Succesful hitchhike after 3 hours ---
I first went to this round-about like intersection and stayed exactly after the first road sign saying BARCELONA - on the first lane. I stayed there for 3 hours and the closest success was some guy shouting out the window 'Where do you want to go' in Spanish because I didn't have the sign posted and I was just signing by hand. This was completely useless because he just went with 80km/h so I didn't have time to respond.
In my opinion Spanish people do '''not''' hitchhike and tend to make fun of people who do.
Anyway, the roundabout intersection is
[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.666276,-0.879979&spn=0.00888,0.026157&z=16 here].
Then I got pissed off and considering the previous reviews about bus 28/29 I said I'm going to try something 'new' so I just walked randomly to [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.677277,-0.851325&spn=0.00111,0.00327&t=h&z=19 this place]
He also told me almost all merchandise trucks are leaving from Mercazaragoza which is a little bit to the north from the junction I've hitchhiked from, and that it's way better to go there and ask the drivers.
Mercazaragoza is [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.686101,-0.858436&spn=0.005224,0.020449&t=h&z=16 here]
He said any city in Spain should have a Merca<name-of-the-city> where the trucks get loaded with stuff and that from now '''Option 1''' Estación de Servicio Petronor Repsol petrol station right on I should go directly there.Hope this information is useful to anyone in the futurehighway
=== Southwest towards [[Madrid]] ===To hitch Southwest towards Madrid From the city centre with a walk of about 20-30 minutes, I easily found cars there: If you go from the bus stop Avda. Navarra 54 C.C. Delicias in front of the Centro Cívico Delicias you are best can take the '''bus 603''' to catch a ''CASETAS'', leave the bus towards at the stop ''Logroño 14'' (which is the second stop in the vilage) and take the next steet to the airportright (Calle del Palacio) and head staight on for 200m, which stops also go straight (2nd exit) at the roundabout and head on for another 500m. There ou will see some stairs to go over the trails at the railway station. Just continue till you reach the other side of the rails. Here you will encounter a large shopping plazasmall street on your left between two factories. You On this road you see a roundabout after 100m that leads you over a bridge above the highway from where you can get out here and try to hitch from an already see the petrol station. on ramp to the A2, but you are better to walk along left side. Go on the other side of the A2 bridge and continue on a small path parallel to the highway for about 2kms until 800m and in the end you find will see a large 24hr Gasolina-Restaurantwalking enrance to the petrol station. '''Option 2''' Catch either bus 27 or 52 to Centro Augusta. From here it follow the N-232 for 5 minutes till you reach a Carrefour petrol station. Place is easy still in city limits '''Option 3''' After Centro de Agusta, there are three petrol stations. Most drivers will be staying within Zaragoza or going to one of the outlying pueblos such as Utebo. Therefore, go to the third gasoline station. From there, try to approach drivers for get a lift ride to Madridthe truck station which is about 10 km away. If there are no vehicles, or it is night, you can walk there. The name of the truck station is La Joyosa and can be accessed by walking - illegaly - on the AP-68 towards Logroño.
== Trivia ==The official charity project from FC St. Pauli football club ran a charity hitch-race from [[Hamburg]] to '''Zaragoza''' from the 23rd of August on to the EXPO 2008 with the topic ''Water and Sustainable Development''. See also [http://vivaconagua.org/index.htm?post?388 the viva con agua website].{{nomadwiki}}
→North-West towards Logroño, Pamplona, Leon
== Hitchhiking out ==
=== East towards [[Barcelona]], [[France]] ===
Repsol petrol station/service area in La Puebla de Alfinden. Bus 211 till (012) NII Rotonda P.I. Malpica/Alfindén === Southwest towards [[Madrid]] === To hitch Southwest towards Madrid you are best to catch a bus towards the airport 501 which stops at Plaza Imperial. You can get on Av Alcalde Francisco Caballero with bus 44 until the intersection with Ronda Hispanidad out here and then walk all the way up try to hitch from an on ramp to the bridge towards the Nord Este Autovia junction.That whole area is an industrial site so there A2, but you are a lot of trucks passing by and the chances are bigger with them than with normal cars. In the same time the problem with that junction is that trucks don't have place better to stop but the guy who picked me up just stopped in walk along the middle side of the road so apparently that is not A2 for about 2kms until you find a big deal for '''some''' of them at least.large El Cisne petrol station As I found out from the driver=== North-West towards [[Logroño]], [[Pamplona]], the best hours are around 10:00 and 18:00-19:00 because there are generally 2 shifts of transporting merchandise between Zaragoza and Barcelona.I got picked up at 18:30.[[Leon]] ===
==Nomadwiki & Trashwiki = West towards [[Logroño]], [[Pamplona]], [[Leon]] ===Catch either bus 27 or 52 to Centro Augusta. From here follow the N-232 for 5 minutes till you reach a petrol station. There is a lot of local traffic, but the service workers are very nice they arranged me a good lift to Logroño.
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