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=== North to [[Thessaloniki]], [[Republic of Macedonia|Macedonia]] (E75) ===
'''Option 1.'''
Take the metro from the center north to Nea Ionia station. ('''Suggestion''': When you get off from the metro, take the bus no. 724 (it starts from here, you can't miss the direction) and get off at stop "Gymnasio" that is 10th stop and just walk 50m. Way better than to walk few kilometers as described in next lines). From the exit of the metro station, turn right, go down a few dozen meters, and go under the tunnel. This is the start of Odos Elevtheriou Venizelou. Walk up this street to Odos Tatoiou and turn right. Walk straight for a few kilometers until the road rises to become a bridge over a large motorway. Note that you will cross ringroad/highway E-94 (A6) first, but continue straight until you get to the bridge going over highway E-75 (A1). Don't go up the bridge, but rather take the road that stays below the bridge and runs to the right side. This is signposted ''Lamia'', one of the first major cities north of Athens. The best time to get a lift is the early morning when local people are driving to work in more distant communities. Eventually someone will stop who can take you far enough north that you can escape the Athens metropolitan area and get long distance rides. For Macedonia, turn left about a kilometer after the enormous toll booth plaza before Thessaloniki.
'''Option 2.'''=== North to [[Volos]], [[Thessaloniki]] {{E|75}} === Take the green "metro" to line 1, till the final last station Kifisia"Kifissia". Find the bus 509 (not exactly at the stationFrom there, it is on a nearby parallel street[http://osm. Ask aroundorg/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38.) in the direction ΚΥΝΟΥΡΙΑΣ and get off at the stop 6η ΚΡΥΟΝΕΡΙΟΥ0738,23. Go straight and there you will see a turn right8083;38. This is taking you to the national road0728, going parallel with 23.8123 cross the highway (donpark]. You't go to the highway yet) and walk on this road. In like 4 kilometers there is ll find a toll station (busy bus stop, direction north, take the best spot!) on the highwaybus [https://www. Walkable distance, but there are spots where you can stop and hitchopenstreetmap. org/relation/10149229 509]
E.g. a Lidl supermarketGet off the bus after 30 min, at bus stop "Neo Terma", where you can buy supplies for yourself for at the road. Or something like end of Agios Stefanos, when it makes a car repair shop like 500 meters later. Ask people if the are going your direction, U-turn and if they can take you for 3 kilometers continues back to the toll stationcity. [http://osm.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38.1550,23. They are friendly and somebody will take you8573;38.''Remark'': it seems that bus 508 does not operate anymore1549, but if you happen 23.8558 Walk 300m] to see one, it is the better option, get on! Take it to Neo Terma and you are much closer to parallel of the high-way. It's quite busy with drivers avoiding toll station. (like 2 kilometers)
When you are at the toll, hitch with You can walk 3 km to that Afidnai Toll Station or without wait for a sign. Everybody is going in the same direction. '''Very important!'short ride, who'' Refuse rides who would take s gonna drop you to the there. Also 4 km after toll station before Halkida. That is Kapandriti Motorway Rest Area with BP fuel station is abandoned and cars are only slowing down a bit. Much worse spot. Stay here and wait for somebody who will take you further. --[[User:Balazs|Balazs]] ([[User talk:Balazs|talk]]) 12:06, 2 April 2014 (CEST)
Anywhere you hitch from, try to get You can also catch a lift going ride at least to the town/village called Oinofyta. 10km before that there is a huge gas station called Autogrill point where you can get long lifts if you drivers who avoided the tolls are luckygetting back into the high way. In Greece it is also no problem Half of the rides go to hitch on Halkida, and the actual highway as long as other half go further North. Decline rides that don't go in your direction, they will only put you are far enough from the city suburbsin a worse spot.
Get off at 1st Aerodromiou Stop or Levkes StopNew spot, i cannot confirm the hitch-hikeability of this route: Take the suburban till Magoula. From there, take the bus [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/10574507 861] till the last stop. There you will see the connection with National Road 8(N8)'s only 35km left to Thiva.
In the suburb of Aspropyrgos, in west Athens, there is a truck-stop well known and used by truck-drivers. There are many trucks from western and northern Europe which means that hitchers will have very good chances of getting a lift to the port-city of Patras and possibly even beyond into Europe.==== Option 1: Megara SEA ====
==== Option 3 ====Take Suburban Train Piraeus-Kiato from Piraeus or Athens aka Larissis Train Station-be careful A) stay in the 3rd wagon, and when you ask because there see the control approaching, go the opposite direction. If the train is Larissa city far from Athensfull, the control might be slow and you might arrive in Megara before they reach you. The If they catch you without a ticket, you wont pay any fine, but just the 3 euro ticket. From the train station is next to platform of Megara, you can see the red line metro restaurant / petrol station with . Cross the same namefield, and find this [https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?route=37.992%2C23.361%3B37.995%2C23.365 underground pass]
Get off at last stop "KIATO". Walk straight from the right side of the railway line to the motorway you see. There turn right. After 20m are not many cars stopping there is , but you can get a left turn long ride. The intersection to EgioPatra or Tripoli is just 40km away, Patras.You can easily hitchhike therebe sure to ask for the correct direction before accepting the ride.
(please be aware that Parking (Rest Area Kiato) on the way to Patras dosn't work anymore).==== Option 2: National Road 8 ====
==== Option 4 ====Eleusina Toll From Ag.Marina Metro Station(end of blue line) buses [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3648632 A16] or [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3648599 865].
=== Southeast towards Sounio ===From Pireas Metro Station (end of green line), bus [https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/10014511 871].
To go along the coast, take tram 5 from Sintagma or Sigrou-Fix and get Get off at 1st Aerodromiou Stop or Levkes Stop. There you will see the last station: Asklipio Voulas. A little ahead there is a good spot to start hitch-hiking fromconnection with National Road 8 (N8).
Blackriding is possible .Controllers lately don't wear the the dark blue uniform nor name tag.
In the metro sometimes the hide behind the turns of the connecting corridors.
Good news is they are as rare as elephants in Athens.
It's very possible to run into them between the last and the first 2-3 days of the month.
Look for used tickets in entry/exit points or validating machines.Tickets of 1.40e or 0.70e student
tickets are valid for 90min. after first validation.
{{IsIn|Greece}}The metro has automatic doors. Black riding is quite common. We wait that somebody opens it with their ticket and we follow them. Usually the controls are at the metro intersections (Syntagma, Omonia, Attiki, Monastiraki), where they hide behind the turns of the connecting corridors. If they catch you without a ticket, show them your passport, but don't pay the fine. Till now, nobody saw their fines redirected to their countries. In nearly all stations, that are not underground you can also easily jump/climp the fence. In some underground stop points you can also jump easily small walls (for example 0,5m in Omonia) aside of the regular check points). Watch out for securities. == Ferry from/to Athens == It is quite common to buy a ticket on the port (of Piraeus - south of Athens) for a ferry to the first stop, but getting off later. They never check you when you leave the ferry. Seldomly they check the people that are waiting downstairs for leaving the ferry. == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki ==
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→South to Sounio
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|name_native = Αθήνα, Athína|state = Attiki|map = <map lat='38.04' lng='23.7475' zoom='10' view='0' />|pop = 2,805,0003.827.624 in 2011 (not including migrants)|plate motorways = YA - YH[[A1 (Greece)|motorways = 1A1]], 6[[A6 (Greece)|A6]]
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'''Athens''' is the capital of [[Greece]].
== Hitching out ==
For a place to sleep before [[Thessaloniki]], there is a great [http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?zoom=15&lat=40.33&lon=22.58 24 hour rest area/gas station ] in Korinos and it's called Olympus plaza([https://olympusplaza.gr)Olympus plaza]. It is 10km east of Katerini and has includes a restaurant with free wifi, and showers and comfortable couches . Nobody will disturb you if you can sleep on. Workers were really nice when Sma asked if she could sleep there, they said "the couches and workers of course!"the restaurant often give food away.
=== Southwest North-West to [[Patra]]s and the [[Peloponnesos]] (E94) Thiva ======= Option 1 ====* Bus A16 from Aigaleo Metro Station (end of blue line) * Bus B16 from Metxourgio Metro Station (Red Line)* Bus 865 200m from Eleonas Metro Station (blue line)
===West to [[Patra]] or [[Tripoli]] {{E|94}} = Option 2 ===='''Harrys Truck-Stop'''
Take the suburban train direction Kiato, and get down in Megara. The truck stop is at controller always gets on the train in Nea Peramos, in the 17th km of National Road Athens-Korinthos 1st or 5th (Athinon-Korinthoulast)wagon. Ιt seems this is where Halivas Cement Company is.It's a huge area and bus drivers and people know it.You can either :
B) go down in Nea Peramos and try to find a [https:There are almost no controllers on that train//www.openstreetmap.org/directions?route=38.0128%2C23. I have taken it 5-6 times last two months (April-May 2010) usually on Fridays and Sundays and have seen no controllers4148%3B37. My girlfriend neither in different occasions9954%2C23. Regular ticket is EUR 63646 5km ride to Megara].
== Sleeping ==Option 3 : Eleusina Toll Station ==== From With the northbound hitchhiking pointsame buses of option 2, go up the stairsyou get off at Platia Elefsinas and [http://osm.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38.0431, across the bridge to the other side of the motorway23.5420;38.0420, take the stairs down, and then 23.4962 walk a few meters south5. You'll find a small wooded area surrounded by a fence3km] to Eleusina Toll Station. The gate of this is open, you just have === South to look for it[[Sounio]] === Take the bus [https://www. Surrounded on all sides by motorway and away openstreetmap.org/relation/6753887 122] from any normal pedestrian avenuesmetro Elliniko to Saronida, this is a pretty safe place to camp for go down at the nightlast stop, even pitch a tent. The large amount walk along the coast to get out of trees means Saronida, and from there you won't be seen by the cars, which pass by rather fastcan hitch-hike to Sounio.
== Public Transport ==
