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This route is widely perceived to be difficult. If you are lucky it can be easy if you get to a Turkish truck. Take bus #27 from the centre (e.g. Kamara) until the very end of the line. [UPDATE: bus #83 no longer starts where bus #27 finishes. Instead ask your #27 bus driver where to get off for bus #83] Switch to bus #83 and go a few stops until you see the motorway. Get off when you see a JetOil rest area on the other side of the motorway. Just follow the bus and go under the motorway to reach the other side. Once you are there, rally the petrol station personnel to help you (they are very nice!). Show them your Istanbul (or Kavala or whatever) sign and ask them to tell you if they notice someone going to Turkey. Be prepared to convince the paranoid drivers that you are not wanted by the police and show them your passport. Getting a ride can take anything between one minute and five hours. If it just does not work at the petrol station see the options below (thumbing up on the road etc). Also, there should be a toll station (peage) about [http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?place=6374 15 km east of Lagynas], near Analipsi (where bus #83a is supposed to go). When you get to the border you might want to switch to a passenger car because the truck could be stuck in customs for a while.
AttentionThis route is widely perceived to be difficult. If you are lucky it can be easy if you get to a Turkish truck. Take bus #27 from the centre (e.g. Kamara) until the very end of the line. [UPDATE: The Jetoil rest area is now rebranded bus #83 no longer starts where bus #27 finishes. Instead ask your #27 bus driver where to get off for bus #83] Switch to 'bus #83 and go a few stops until you see the motorway . Get off at Filothei (Φιλοθέη) when you see a BP Oil' in green colourrest area on the other side of the motorway. Just follow the bus and go under the motorway to reach the other side. Once you are there, rally the petrol station personnel to help you . They told me Show them your Istanbul (July 2016or Kavala or whatever) sign and ask them to tell you if they notice someone going to Turkey. Be prepared to convince the paranoid drivers that they changed you are not wanted by the police and show them your passport. Getting a ride can take anything between one minute and five hours. If it just does not work at the petrol station see the options below (thumbing up on the name last yearroad etc). I met Also, there should be a toll station (peage) about [http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?place=6374 15 km east of Lagynas], near Analipsi (where bus #83a is supposed to go). When you get to the border you might want to switch to a spanish hitchhiker who was asking me passenger car because the truck could be stuck in customs for a while. Bus #83 goes all the way to Lagkadas (Λαγκαδάς). If you stay on the Jetoilbus until it reaches this small town, by the time we both didn't know that we were already you can try hitching out in the right placedirection of Kavala, Istanbul, etc.
Another optionUpdate (July 2022): Bus #83 goes all the way to Lagkadasoptions listed above are extremely outdated and not very helpful. If you stay on the bus until it reaches this small town, you can try hitching out in the direction of Kavala, IstanbulThis route is still difficult, etcbut there are better options.
*"I1) with bus number 83 you can get to Laguna from where there've also followed s about 20 minutes walk to the intructions knot that ties local road 2 and waited several hundred meters after JetOilhighway 2. It wasn't railly easy to hitchike in a freezing weather and nobody has stoped for about 2 hours than a turkish truck driver stopped and we've driven Here you can get directly to the direction entrance of Malaka.So what I can highly recommend you is: Go to the truck station in Thessaloniki, highway for Kavala where you can also drive by 83filter out any cars not going your way. There The traffic is certainly some Turkish trucks who drives to the direction of Turkey, very slow but on the border because of the strikes or controls cars can stop and they get a good look at you might have to wait more than 7 hours. There I'd advice you to pass the bridge with s a truck from the front of the queue. If it is evening mostly the drivers would sleep in Keşan. So just try to speak to car drivers on the Turkish border. 2012 Arsengas station about 30km down before Evangelios
*''I followed the instructions and went to JetOil and got the personnel to help2) The highway entrance after BP near Megalohare kantina is still very local, but there's enough traffic so it turned out 's possible to be quite hard to get a ride going easthitch longer rides. Even though a lot of cars and trucks do Since Greeks don't stop there, the cars appeared often we opted to be going local and go for the trucks were heading towards Athens. After half an hour, I decided to move on and got a short first ride which brought us to the highway. After 5 minutes a trucker, who was on his way to Iran, stopped for me. So even though I do not recommend thumbing up on the highway, it does work some time. December 2010, Lana''3rd option
*''I tried the recommended way of asking around at the JetOil trying to get out of Thessaloniki3) 40, with no luck. It seemed all the truckers were either sleeping7214723, local22, 9740939 or going to Athens. Also, they were not that keen on taking hitchhikers anyway. After a few hours, I went to the highway spot right next to after the station (exit for Laguna is risky. The cars drive fast so be careful and there is an opening in 's a high probability the fence, highway patrol tells you just have to look for it), and got get off. However we hitched a ride halfway to Istanbul within 10 5 minutes. It surprises me how closed-minded the original post is, being that it is entirely possible, and quite easy to get with a ride on the highway. Just Kavala sign as there are a lesson that you should never take anyone's recommendation as absolute truth. I would personally recommend getting the personnel at the station lot of Turkish truck drivers going from Athens to ask around for you (they were incredibly friendly), and stay within clear sight on the highway in case they get you a ride before you doIstanbul. February 2011, Jon''
*''First None of all: it's not easy at all to hitchhike in Greece btw Thessaloniki. We spent one day and two hours the next day in that area to get a hike in the direction to Turkey. If you take these options are perfect, but they seem way more likely than the bus #83 from town be prepared that it '''doesn't''' stop on the highway. We drove to the next BP station and waited for the bus #86 since 4-5 hours of hitchhiking there yielded only 2 rides going to drive backKilkis. The whole in the fence is Since we changed strategy we only needed about an option but a bad one because the cars are driving fast hour and they have almost no space to stop. We got a hitch at the drive-up, direction Kavala. It is wide and the cars are driving slow. If you come with the bus and go under the highway you'll find it on your left hand side. 250m to walk from the JetOilhalf in total. Good Luckluck! July 2011, Timo''
*''In Thessaloniki Kamara you can take bus 83. There is no need to take bus 27 and change to 83. The ride towards the HH point takes about 20 to 30 minutes. The bus will drive on the highway. Stay on the bus until it leaves the highway and continue for about 5 minutes on the local road. Leave the bus when you see a petrol station on your right. Walk for 100 metres until the traffic light where you will find some shade from trees. It is so hot between 12 and 4. 500 metres further from the traffic light is the highway. I first tried there but all the traffic was heading for Thessaloniki. So I went back to the traffic light. The cars are local but there are several trucks going to Turkey. They take the national road to avoid the toll from the highway. Try to get the attention of the trucks. I used a cardboard written Kavala=== North-Turkey. The truck took me to the border and there I slept in the truck with the driver. At the border change West to a car. The waiting time for the truck was about 40 minutes. The waiting time for the car was 5 minutes. May 2012. Len''[[Skopje]] ([[North Macedonia]]) ===
*Option 1:Don''Spent a full day trying t bother to hitch hike to get a ride the border! There are free busses from the area where bus 27 stops city centre which belong to the casinos across the border just before going over the motorwayGevgelija. Greeks do not stop, slept You can find these buses on top of a derelict building of which there's plenty thereTsimiski street. Go They are easy to Jetoil as described above, guy with ponytail recognize (late 30ties I think) speaks English and has been helping hitchers out for 20+ years. He knows a substantial amount the name of the traffic because this petrol station apparently has very loyal customerscasino is printed on the bus, meaning he knows which people to askand it is written "free shuttle"). Hole in the fence was still there but the police use the cafe as their coffee stakeout The buses leave at 17:00 and they were there 21:00 so only useful for arriving in number all day, so hitching beyond the fence might not be advised. Might still take a substantial amount of time Skopje at the Jetoil but I got a ride all the way to Georgianight. August 2014. Wouter''
*I took bus 83 all the way Option 2:Take a Bus to the last station (A small village)Agios Athanasios. From "KTEL Macedonia Bus station" lines 81A, 89B, 89K go there there is a bus going towards Rentina. Tell the bus driver or the person working at the bus station that you want to get off next to the toll on the highway. (The man at the bus sation was super helpful) The toll is only 15 minutes from the busstation. Jump the fence and stand just afte the toll You can hitch on the highway. From the toll it took 5 minutes nearby junction to get a ride Highway A1/E75 to the Turkish border. August 2015Skopje. Liron
* I took bus like other guys, from Kamara Square, in Option 3:Actually hitch hike. Highway EO2 effectively runs down the center of Thessaloniki to LagkadasEdessas. Actually I couldnt catch It's a normal road (called "Monastiriou", "Egnagia" and others) up until the junction with the gas station in below. But I went to last point ring road (a bus stationA2/E90) at Lagkadas and used a bus which were going to Rentina. You have to buy a ticket for this bus. It was aroun 1can walk down it (going north-1,5 eurowest) while hitch hiking. And There are gas stations along it where you can explain hitch hike. Just past the situation to the man who sells this bus ticket. He will translated it to greek for ring road there is a stop light before the bus driver. Because ramp where you have to get off at tolls, near the lake. You can continue hitchiking at this pointhitch hike. I know Just beyond that there is a very big shoulder where you won't remember me, but I waited less than 2 minscan hitch hike. I get off from Rentina bus, walked 1 min to the tolls and a trucked stopped near me. By the way, I am a Turkish. MAybe he could understand it Continue following EO2 from my face :) Anyway we went together to border gate. There was a huge truck population there for some bordes process. I get off from first truck and started to walk to gate. Greek police men asked something and I answered. They were so cute to me. After passport control you will see duty free and Everest 10km (like resting area) . You cant walk from Greek gate to Turkish gate. You have to use in a car. And by now ideally) and you can ask to drivers who resting are at Agios Athanasios as in this areaoption 2 above. I could find a driver who were going Take the exit to A1/E75 to Çorlu, TekirdağSkopje. And I get off at Çorlu. Samet, November 2015
* "We took bus 27 and go === South to KTEL Macedonia. And walked few minutes to Motorway. We waited 2 or 3 hours under the rain. Two Turkish truck gave up. But They said "You should wait at JetOil, Turkish trucks waiting this station." Turkish Truck Drivers are very good and truthful guys. Dont worry, go and ask them" Ahmet, May 2016[[Athens]] ===
* We (1 girlTake Buses #31, #12, 1 guy) went #8 or #78 to the BP bus station, had called KTEL. From there take bus #80 or #80A to the village called ''Malgara'' (some of these buses don't go all the way to change from Malgar). You can go out on the stop "''25 Martiou''" which is the 27 closest to the 83 tolls but on the bus along Lagkada Street, it's announced differently (in Greek ''Ikostis Pmptis Martiou'' ask the driver). The manager at There you can ask and find the Malgara Toll Station toll station was very friendly and spoke (in Greek ''diodia'') on E75 easily. You'll have to walk about 2 km to us when we first arrived; he said that many hitchhikers use this site and come here almost every day find it, but then there is a possibility to hitch get a ride and that someone always ends up giving even straight to Athens. Before you enter the motorway where the toll station is, you a liftwill have to go through some fields. At If it's night be careful, just before the BP station motorway there is a seating area small ridge that is a bit steep and a little market - the place there is open 24/7. We put our stuff water flowing down and went , you need to find your way around asking turkish truck drivers if they were headed to Istanbulit. If it's day, we would also ask normal drivers walking into from the market. The manager helped us out fields you can see a lot heresmall canteen on the motorway, he taught us how head to spot Turkish vs Greek trucksthat direction, you can bypass the ridge there very easily and even asked drivers if they were headed our way. We ended up with a ride also you don't need to jump the fence (easy to Kavala with a random Greek guy driving a mercedesjump though) because there is an entrance/exit for the canteen. We waited around for approximately 4 hours (Ryan CFrom the canteen you will see the tolls, Sep 2017)they are less than 50 m away.
* We (1 girl, 1, boy) took the bus #83 to the last station. Here we ask for the bus 91A and stop to Analipsi (Ανάληψη). We walked 15min and joined the toll. From the toll we waited 5min, a Turkish truck stoped. The all trip Thessaloniki - toll costed us 2€, but really efficient. (Adrien L, July 2019.)
*For me those not wanting to take a bus or want to hitch closer to the best option city (and aren't scared to walk), go to reach the bp gas the A1 motorway going towards Athens. It runs right beside the city centre. Starting from near the train station was to take after walking 2 km you will arrive at the international bus 83b, station. From there it stops 300m further 's a 6km walk along the motorway to where the E90 highway joins on to the A1 road to Athens. This is a good spot due to the high amount of Turkish trucks coming straight from the border and you just walk 5 minutes back in bypassing the direction you came city as well as any traffic coming fromthe north. For me it was super fast Stand at the end of the onramp where there is a shoulder for traffic to pull over and you can get a ride till alexandroupolito Larissa or even Athens. You just have === West to [[Igoumenitsa]] {{E|90}} === Go to walk around and ask the drivers directly because they train station, which is also the inner-city bus station. From here, take bus 8 KTEL (the KTEL are really scared the blue and white buses) to take Makedonia bus station. From there, you. The guy I went with even wanted can catch the bus #80 to see my passportthe end of the line, then follow motorway signs walking (approx. So be prepared 2km) to convince the people that it’s not a risk if they will take you[[toll station]]. Or rather than taking bus #80, just walk across the road (Blanka, September 2019roundabout)till you come to an [[on-ramp]]
=== North-West to In [[SkopjeIgoumenitsa]] (you can get a ride with trucks over the sea to [[North MacedoniaItaly]]) ===.
"Don't bother to hitch hike to the border!!!
There is a free bus from the city centre === North-East to the border! These buses belong to the casinos you can find at the border just before Gevgelija. You can find theses buses on Tsimiski street. They are easy to recognize [[Sofia]] (the name of the casino is printed on the bus, and it is written "free shuttle"[[Bulgaria|BG]]). The buses leave at 17:00 and 21:00 though, so it might be quicker to hit the road directly, but more comfortable taking the bus. I didn't take it but I was picked up by a guy working at a casino who gave me the information. Another nice information: you can eat and drink for free at the casino!! Apparently you can just show up at the reception, they will give you a card and you can enjoy food and drinks for free!! I did! Anne-laure, may 2013"===
*''If Take bus 83 (any of them will get you are traveling with a lot of baggagethere, even the driver will probably refuse express) from Aristotellous Square stop (on Egnatia Street). You want to take you get off at the Kombo Gerokomeiou exit (which happened to me and my girlfriendGoogle maps doesnt show the bus stops this far north, we had one big and one small backpack, two sleeping bags and but on the opposite side of the highway is a tentgas station called Derveni Gas S.A.). MAKE SURE you explain to the bus driver you want to get off at this exit. Otherwise, as he needs might not get off the highway here and the next stop is too far to be informed by walk back from. Stand on the hotel/casino in advance, that there will be some passengers with big bagsshoulder of the ramp. What you can do There is call one not a lot of the casinos/hotels some time before you go and ask them to inform the drivertraffic here, so it might take you might have up to lie about going an hour to spend get a night at ride, but I think its worth it because most of the cars going as far as Bulgaria will get on the hotel.'' [http://hitchwikihighway here.org/en/User:DuriTraktorista DuriTraktorista]Good luck!
Take a bus #8 Update (or #31?August '22) from Egnatias street in the centre to KTEL (last stop). You can also Don't take bus #45 which goes between KTEL Makedonia and KTEL Halkidiki (you want to go to ''Makedonia''). Then switch to bus #81 which you can find on the upper platform. Afterwards, you can do different things. 83! You can get off at a first bus stop after you drive over the highway Athens-Skopje - [http://g.co/maps/3qj6m here]. Be careful, the first big crossing you going to come to is the crossing with the ring road (you are going to driver underneath it) while only the next on is the one you need (you are going to drive above it). Then you have to walk almost 2km backwards (if you walk fast it takes 20 minutes) and you can hitch on the junction take bus 83B to the highway get to Skopje. However, if the right place! Taking bus goes into Agios Athanasios 83 will make you can better get off and find your way from there (it seems that this bus goes differently depending whether it is #81 or #81A and depending on some external stuff; you can talk to walk for a long time until teaching the driver to make sure)ramp.
*Also, I wasn't so lucky there. I waited a total of 4 hours before I gave up.I think it'My girlfriend and me stood at the junction just next s better to the old paytoll, which seemed go to be the best place since cars were going rather slowlyShell gas station at 40°41′01. After 10-15 minutes we were picked up by a North Macedonian woman who brought us to the border72″N 22°56′28. A week later I hitchhiked alone from the same spot 28″E and was picked up after 40 minutes and got ask people. Thumbing on ramps is pretty difficult in Greece.You can take bus 53 until Strophe Oraiokastrou to the junction with Polykastro before which the highway goes into one line for 500 metres. On that spot I thumbed and got get to the border after another 40 minutesgas station. December 2011, [[User:Rozwal|Rozwal]]''
*''My friend and I (two guys) stood here for 4 hours and despite many cars passing only one North Macedonian guy stopped but he asked for money. Then we put up our tent in the nearby field and tried our luck the next day. After another 2 hours we got picked up by Albanian workers that took us to Polykastro. There are no petrol stations or shops nearby, so bring food and water just in case! August 2012, [[User:Chaba|Chaba]]''
Alternatively, you can get off === North to [[Kilkis]] ([[http://goo.gl/maps/aLQTM hereGreece] which is reported to be a better place for cars to stop. But there you have a lot of cars going to the West, while if you come the previous stop you will have cars going only towards Polykastro or the border.]) ===
*''I took bus 81A from KTEL busstation Basically you need to Agios Athanasios. Got off when it turns from the highwaytake 2 buses. From there hitched to Polykastro and another ride got me Very similar to the border. At the border asked the car in front of me for a ride, which got me above direction to SkopjeSofia. Standing on the highway there, But this time it was very quiet, but I was very lucky as an Austrian car passed is bus #27 / #27a and got me straight to Belgradebus #84 / # 84a. You can change buses in two different places. January 2011, Lana''
=== South This way is faster as you don't need to [[Athens]] ===stay on bus #27 so long. Take bus #27 or #27a and get off at Minerva stop in Oreokastrou suburb. If you walk some hundreds of meters from the bus stop where you get off, in the direction the bus was going, you will reach a crossroads and on your left you will see another bus stop. From there you can take bus #84.
Take Buses #31This way is easier because you don't need to change bus stops, #12, #8 or #78 it is the way mentioned in the Northeast to Sofia section. Take the bus station called KTEL. From there take bus #80 27 or #80A to 27a from the village called ''Malgara''. You can go down on the station "''25 Martiou''" which is centre the closest to the tolls (in Greek final s top ''ikostis pemptis martiouPlatia Stavroupolis'' if you want to ask the driver). There you can ask and find the toll station (in Greek ''diodia''Stavroupolis square) easily. You'll have to walk about 2 km to find it, but then there is a possibility to get a ride even straight to Athens. Before you enter Then at the motorway where the toll station is, same place take bus #84 / #84a and you will have to go through some fields. If it's night be careful, just before the motorway there is a small ridge that is a bit steep and there is water flowing down, you need to find re already on your way around it. If it's day, from the fields you can see a small canteen on the motorway, head to that direction, you can bypass the ridge there very easily and also you don't need to jump the fence (easy to jump though) because there is an entrance/exit for the canteen. From the canteen you will see the tolls, they are less than 50 m away.
[edit] First Stay on bus #84 whilst it passes through 2 villages, Liti and Melissochiori. When it is out of allMelissochiori, it appears greek at one point the bus stops do have several nameswill cross the road going to Kilkis and you will see signs for Kilkis. "25 Martiou" is written on When you are at the cross roads you can press the roadsign but stop button on the bus, and it's announced differently. I messed up because of that various times so always be sure to ask will stop just after the driver to signal your stopcross. Finding the canteen There is a bit of trial and error, but still easily possiblebus stop there. In case Then you don't find the toll stationare at a great spot for hitching a ride to Kilkis, from the canteen go right Gallikos or even North Macedonia (following but not the "Athen" roadsign) for about 1,5km most common way to find Skopje. it is a small (but picturesque) side stop (August 2017different border).
[edit] Some of these buses don't go all the way to Malgara so you have to get out at one stop in the middle of nowheren before the bus turns back to Thessaloniki and wait for another bus with the same or different number that goes to Malgara. It can be a little confusing so the best way is to tell someone on the bus where you want to go and let them tell you when to get off for the next bus and the station ''ikostis pemptis martiou''. (September 2019)== Sleep ==
For those not wanting to take a bus or want to hitch closer to Some have had luck asking the city good people at Mikropolis/Micropolis Social Space, (and aren't scared to walk), go to the the A1 motorway going towards Athenssee [http://wikimapia. It runs right beside the city centreorg/#lat=40. Starting from near the train station after walking 2kms you will arrive at the international bus station6360852&lon=22. From there it'939539&z=17&l=0&m=s a 6km walk along the motorway to where the E90 highway joins on to the A1 road to Athens&v=9&show=/13098671/Mikropolis]). This is a good spot due to the high amount of Turkish trucks coming straight from the border They were very friendly and bypassing the city as well as any traffic coming from the north. Stand at the end of the onramp could advise on where there is a shoulder to squat for traffic to pull over and you can get a ride to Larissa or even Athensthe night.
Go to the train station, which is also the inner-city bus stationIt's '''NOT SAFE THERE''' ''(upd. From here, take bus 8 KTEL (the KTEL are the blue and white buses2022) to Makedonia bus station''. From The drug business moved there, you can catch the bus #80 as unbelievable as it sounds. People selling drugs and fighting over things related to the end of the linethem, then follow motorway signs walking (approxpasserbys get attacked. If someone has a van maybe it's okay. 2km) But sleeping in a tent or sleeping bag is an invitation to the [[toll station]]get robbed. Or rather than taking bus #80, just walk across It's the road (roundabout) till you come worst place to an [[on-ramp]] wheresleep, according to [[User:Liva|Liva]]really. Plus, starting from 2019 it is a place where a pretty good spot lot of immigrants sleep. Police has no right to stop carsenter that area because of some tragic past, i.e. it's ideal place for drug sellers and crime.
In [[Igoumenitsa]] you can get a ride with trucks over the sea to [[Italy]].====Forest Recreational Center====
=== NorthForest Recreational Center near the Zoo (''Neapoli-East to [[Sofia]] Sykies, 554 38'') which is located on the hills above the city can be a solution. However, depending on your choice of the "height" of that forest ([[Bulgaria|BG]]after highway it becomes more wild, before highway it more like a park) ===there can be pack of stray dogs which is not a good gift.
Take Homeless animals are a big problem in the bus #27 from the centre to it's final stopbig cities as Thessaloniki or Athens, where also other buses stop(so you need #85). Then take bus #85(A, B or M) and you're already on your way. Almost any stop of this bus leaves you at a good hitchhiking point, but the nineteenth stop ''21o chiliometro'' (21st kilometre) is on the way better have something to Serres and protect yourself from them during the Bulgarian border night (to Sandansky, Blagoevgrad, Sofia). If you can't explain all this to the driver just ask him to get off at Assirus. It's a village some long sticks near the motorwayyou). When you ask the locals for the motorway use the german word "autobahn" instead Normally they are scared of "motorway" or "highwaythrowing a rock gesture"because some greeks do that against dogs. The road is E79 and it's not a motorwaySo, especially after the border. These city bus tickets for 2 rides cost 90 cents (that if you don't even have see an unfriendly dog try to pay) and take you quite some kilometres out of pretend taking a rock from the city towards all destinationsground - it should work for lonely dog.
Update: If you want to get to ''21o chiliometro'' make sure to make that really clear to the busdriver since the bus doesn't stop at every stop nor says the stops out loud. Try to <b>not</b> end up in Assirus. Hitchhiking out of this village is a pain. And if you are unlucky enough to end up there: Don't ask locals for the highway because they will take you to the old highway. If you want to get to the new highway to Sofia ask for "autobahn". ====Airport====
[Update: getting off at Assirus has Place to stay for a short term. It is not proved a good ideaclosing for the night, it's quite difficult to reach the new motorway from so you can always overnight there. A kind local took me there on unpaved roads, and after I had to climb over a fence and descend on a rough path...]
[Update: watch out! the ''21o chiliometro'' and probably Assirus spots are not anymore the right spots to go towards Serres and Sofia. There is now the Egnatia highway and nobody drives this way and if he does it takes several hours to arrive to Serres. Also, in the point where the bus stops used to be a petrol station, also no more in use. ]====Other====
OPTION 2Take bus 83 (any of them will get you there, even We slept at a deserted camping space by the express) from Aristotellous Square stop (on Egnatia Street)beach in Ag. You want to get off at the Kombo Gerokomeiou exit (Google maps doesnt show the bus stops this far northTriada, but on the opposite side of the highway which is really worth a gas station called Derveni Gas Svisit.AWe even made a big fire at night and it didn't disturb anybody.)This place is about 30km south of Thessaloniki and you can reach it within 1,5h by bus. MAKE SURE you explain to From the famous ottoman tower take the bus driver you want to get off at this exitikea. Otherwise, he might not get off At the highway here and last stop ask for the next stop is too far bus to walk back fromPerea and Ag. Stand on Triada. The last bus will pass by the shoulder of the ramp. There is not airport and enter a lot cupple of traffic here, so it might take villages before you up get to an hour to get a rideTriada. Ask for the old camping at the beach, but I think its worth it because most of the cars going as far as Bulgaria locals will get on the highway hereguide you. Good luck!
* This way is faster as you don't need to stay on bus #27 so long. Take bus #27 or #27a and get off at Minerva stop in Oreokastrou suburb. If you walk some hundreds of meters from The tickets for the bus stop where you get off, buses in the direction the bus was going, you will reach a crossroads city cost 0.80€ and on your left you will see another bus stopsometimes 0. From there you can take bus #84.* This way is easier because you don't need to change bus stops, it is the way mentioned in the Northeast to Sofia section90€ (0. Take the bus #27 or #27a from the centre the the final s top ''Platia Stavroupolis'' (Stavroupolis square40€ for students). Then at the same place take bus #84 / #84a and you're already on your way2€ for airport route.
Stay on bus #84 whilst it passes through 2 villages, Liti and Melissochiori'''Blackriding''' is possible. When it It's risky because there is out no chance of Melissochiori, at one point the bus will cross the road going to Kilkis and you will see signs for Kilkis. When you are at the cross roads you can press the stop button on recognising controllers before they enter the bus and it will stop just after the cross. There is a bus stop there. Then you are at a great spot for hitching a ride to Kilkis, Gallikos or even North Macedonia (but not however the most common way to Skopje. it very control is a different border)rare.
== Sleep ==Controllers are using civil clothes (they doesn't use a special clothes, they just unzip theirs jackets with controllers badges in the middle of the road, so they already know if you didn't validate your ticket). If you speak to the controller in a foreign language (showing that you're a tourist, not an illegal immigrant) they'll just leave you alone. If not, they first ask 30 euro for the tax, in that case you can say you don't have one. Then they ask your an ID card, you say that you don't have it with you and then they'll just give you a paper to note your name and address, where you can write any fake name. Or even simpler you can give your real passport and they are supposed to send you the bill to your country. It's 100% SURE that they will not.
Some have had luck asking the good people at Mikropolis/Micropolis Social Space, (see [http://wikimapia.org/#lat=40.6360852&lon=22.939539&zShower =17&l=0&m=s&v=9&show=/13098671/Mikropolis]). They were very friendly and could advise on where to squat for the night.
The university campus in Thessaloniki is just in the city centre and it's the perfect place to sleep in your van/tent/sleeping bag, because it's perhaps the only green place in the city and because the police are not allowed to enter the university! There are few guards but don't have the right to touch world where you. It's generally safe, though perhaps not suitable can eat everyday for a single femalefree easily.
It===Fititiki Leshi (Φοιτητική Λέσχη) upd:2022=== Next to the campus of Aristotle University, Egnatia street, after the crossroad with 3rd September street there is the university canteen. (''Address: Egnatia, Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece''). Ask anybody for 's not so safe anymore'fititiki leschi''. There you can find a free full meal three times per day: 8.00-10. The drug business moved there00, as unbelievable as it sounds12. People selling drugs 00-15.00 and fighting over things related to them, passerbys get attacked18.00-20.00. If someone has a van maybe itThese free meals are provided for the university students, but even if you're not one, you don's okay. But sleeping in a tent or sleeping bag is an invitation t have to get robbed. Itpay and you don's the worst place t have to sleep, really. Try Seih Sou, the forest on the hills above the city. Or show a student ID or any crowded place in the centerdocument (but due to cobtrol re-enforcement you could be asked for your ID).
We slept at To avoid control you need to be a part of a deserted camping space by the beach in Ag. Triada, big crowd which is really worth a visit. We even made a big fire at night hard to control, therefore try to be there during the most crowded time (normally the beginning of opening) and it didnyou won't disturb anybodybe controlled. This place Another 'life-hack' that you can use if you have been asked for your ID is about 30km south of Saloniki and to tell that you can reach it within 1,5h by bus. From the famous ottoman tower take the bus just started to ikea. At the last stop ask study greek language for the bus to Perea university and Ag. Triada. The last bus will pass you don't own by the airport and enter now any proof of that (there are a cupple lot of villages before you get to Triada. Ask foreign students who really study greek for that reason, and yes - they don't have any proof in the old camping at beginning). It is harder during the beachweekends (or holidays) because there are less people and have no crowd, locals will guide so if you look suspicious youcan be asked for an ID.
== Public Transport ==The tickets for Just follow the buses in queue, take the city cost 0.80€ food and sometimes 0eat it.90€There's nothing to be afraid of, just try to look more or less like a student. Blackriding Only disadvantage is possible. If you speak to the controller in a foreign language (showing that you're a touristit is closed on weekends, summer holidays and not an illegal immigrant) they'll just leave you alone-working days for the university in general. If not, they first ask 30 euro for Picture of the tax, you say you don't havebuilding [http://www. Then they ask your id card, you say you don't have it with you and then they'll just give you a paper to note your name and address, where you can write any fake namemakthes. Or even simpler you can give your real passport and they are supposed to send you the bill to your countrygr/filestore/modules/news/68918/lesxi. It's 100% SURE that they will notjpg here].
There were big movements in this city about not paying for public transport. Many people don't pay and controls Alternative entrance: when you are rarethere look to your right. Spent At the end of the grass there is a whole month stair case, you can go up directly to the dining hall (if it's opened, if it's not you can knock or wave through the door to another student, normally they will let you in this city taking buses daily and never got checked).
* ''On bus #85 the driver asked for tickets before leaving the station, I simply said There is another option (easy in English) that I had no money and where I was going, and he let me ride the bus anyway. September 2012morning, Alnairotherwise is more difficult):''
I took one shower in one hospital 500 metres from the television broadcast antenna. There are three hospitals close to each other and I just tried one. After walking around in the hospital and talking friendly to some nurses I was able to take a shower and shave. May 2012. LenYou can find it by following ''address: Stilponos Kiriakidi 17, Thessaloniki 546 36, Greece''
There The best way is also the "national swimming pool" which is open to the public for be hosted there by any student through hosting application or ask some hours during students living there to help you get the daydinner (regularly even if you cannot get main dish they provide you orangers or apples which no one takes). Swimmers have to take If you cannot find a shower before entering the pool and nobody checks who enters themstudent helping you, so you might grab the chance for a bath there. It is located in the center of the citycan try get some food by your own, near the University. Location on mapfollow this instruction: https://goo.gl/maps/q9XRl (Jan 2015) Last time checked, the national swimming pool was out of service. It worths to ask around about it first if it's still not in use. (July of 2018)
One even safer option is - They are controling IDs only during day time and evening time, so it's very easy to get there in the student residencemorning (8 a. Noone here checks who entersm - 10 a. Everm). Even if they see you like a complete stranger with a tons In the morning there are almost no people eating, so staff is really bored of baggage and ask you anything, just tell them that you are visiting a friend checking IDs or whatever. After you enter, go upstairs to any floor and you'll find common baths everywhere. It is located near the swimming pool at the city center. You can enter 24h. Location on map: https://gooeven absent.gl/maps/H8WZU (jan 2015)
== Free - Take the trey with food ==and go eat as all do at the table. Don't be suspicious, you are a student now. Many students doesn't really eat there, they are taking food away which they can physically take out and leave the dorms. You can do the same.
Thessaloniki is perhaps - Normally control-staff are crossing out the only place in numbers on the world where you can eat everyday for free easilypaper. Next to Each student has his own number on ID-card and he tells it in the campus moment of Aristotles university, Egnatia street, after the crossroad with 3rd September street there is the university canteenentering. Ask anybody for It''fititiki leschi''/φοιτητική λέσχη. There s another strategy of pretending to be a student: you can find a free full meal twice a daytell random number in greek language (p. 12e.00-15.00 and 18.00103 = ekato tria, 25 -20.00. These free meals are provided for the university studentsikosi pende, but even if you're not one207 = diakosa epta, you don't have to pay and you don't have to show a student ID or any document. Just follow the queueetc), take the food and eat so they will cross itout. ThereDon's never any checks. There's nothing to be afraid oft worry, just try to look more or less like a student. Only disadvantage is that it is closed on weekendsstudents rarely take morning breakfast, summer holidays and so you are not-working days for the university "eating someone's food in general. Picture of the building [http://www.makthes.gr/filestore/modules/news/68918/lesxi.jpg here]his place".
Alternative entrance: when - In the end, if you did not get any food, you are there look to your right. At the end of the grass there is a stair casedesperate and frustrated, you can go up directly try to the dining halltell staff that you are an adventurer, they are pretty understanding.I don't think They will give you food anyway if you really need this because itcame in the restaurant's very is easy closing time (10 a.m; 2.30 p.m & 9 p.m). There are always extra food, which they give to enter trough the main doorrandom people. Just ask.
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'''Thessaloniki''' is a city in [[Greece]].
== Hitchhiking out ==
=== East towards Kavala and [[Istanbul]] ([[Turkey|TR]]) {{E|90}} ===
=== West to [[Igoumenitsa]] {{E|90}} Camping === ====The university campus ==== The university campus in Thessaloniki is just in the city centre and it seems to be a perfect place to sleep in your van/tent/sleeping bag, but IT IS NOT!
=== North to [[Kilkis]] ([[Greece]]) =Public Transport ==Basically Google maps doesn't really know how buses work, so they are unable to get you need directions from point A to take 2 busesB in the city. Very similar So, if you want to move inside the above direction to Sofia. But this time it city using a public transport download special application (''in 2022 there is bus #27 / #27a and bus #84 / # 84a. You can change buses in two different placesan application called "Moovit").
There were big movements in this city about not paying for public transport. Many people don't pay and controls are many hospitality network members rare. [[User: HHer-Vert|HHer-Vert]] was living in the that very city5 years, so try your luck thereand got controlled only 2-3 times.
One even safer option is the student residence. Noone here checks who enters. Ever. Even if they see you like a complete stranger with a tons of baggage and ask you anything, just tell them that you are visiting a friend or whatever. After you enter, go upstairs to any floor and you'll find common baths everywhere. It is located near the swimming pool at the city center. You can enter 24h. Location on map: https://goo.gl/maps/H8WZU
=== Camping =Free food ==
== Shower =Alfa foititiki estia (Α' φοιτητική εστία):===Your aim is the same - free student food from student canteen, however now you are going to search it directly in canteen of student's dorms. There is no control at the entrance of student's dorms. The restaurant is located on the first floor, at the left side from the big marble stairs. The doors are opened at the meal time.
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