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Luxembourg (City)

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South (Metz, France) (E25/A3)
{{Infobox Location|country = Luxembourg|state = |map = <map lat='49.61059870523054' lng='6.130886077880859' zoom='12' view='0' float='right'/>|pop = 132,780|plate = |motorways = {{E|25}}, {{E|44}}}} 
'''Luxembourg''' is the capital city of the self-named country [[Luxembourg]].
==Hitching Out==
== Hitchhiking out ==  ===North and West towards ([[BelgiumArlon]], [[NetherlandsLiège]], etc[[Brussels|Brussel]]) ===# '''Service station for Brussels''' Get the line 50 train from Luxembourg City station for around 2 euro(public transportation is free here!). Get off at the Capellen stop and walk less than 1 km west to some of the biggest petrol stations in Europe! Walk towards the motorway which you can see from the train station and take the first road right alongside the fields. After 5 minutes you will come to the petrol station fence. There is a hole near You can climb over the locked fence, but the top is spiked. It's better to turn right, and walk along the fence for about 250 metres, and climb through (BE CAREFUL)over it at the first section with a stone-wall. Many truck drivers use this service station. I was waiting less than 10 minutes.# '''Motorway exit for Brussels''' Follow the Route d'Arlon to the entry onto the A6/[[E25]]. This is a walk of about 4km from the town centercentre. You can partially use bus 7also just take the Bus 28 and hop off at Hondseck, or the Bus 22 and walk from Maternité (no need for a ticket ). From Cars can pull over just before the traffic lights, or at the sliproad you . You can get a ride straight to [[Brussels]], but if that fails, or to the above mentioned Capellen stop gas station ('aire de Capellen') , which is just about 10km down the road, and from there you can get rides to about anywhere in Belgium and the Netherlands. '''Service station for Liege and the Netherlands''' You have the option of going to the town of Martelange . This small town is famous for plenty of drivers due to the cheap fuel provided by dozens of service stations for drivers going to the Belgian Limburg, Dutch Limburg, and Aachen, etc. Get train from Luxembourg city station to Arlon. Walk left out of station, keep following the Bastogne road signs towards a roundabout which is a 20 minute walk. Here you can hitchhikin at the junction after the bridge and across from the Fiat car garage. This road goes to Martelange and the North. === East ([[BelgiumTrier]] and the , [[NetherlandsGermany]].) ===
===North and West towards [[Belgium]], [[Netherlands]], [[Aachen]] etc==='''The better option'''
ONLY FOR LIEGEJust walk out of the centre to the ''Avenue John Fitzgerald Kennedy'' in direction Kirchberg. You will find many banks, MAASTRICHTinstitutes and the Luxembourg fair (LuxExpo) there. You can hitch on every spot where cars can stop on this road and even in side roads and secondary roads which are leading to this avenue. Make sure holding a Trier sign. There are masses of people from Trier working in Luxembourg Kirchberg and especially on working days you won't have to wait long. Hold a Trier sign even if you want to get further, AACHENif this is the case,ETCyou can be dropped at Wasserbillig service station on the motorway A1. A sign is very important for making the people from Trier stop, which will be your drivers here.
You have plenty of options which will involve going Bus 16 to the town of Martelange stop just before the airport. This small town bus stop is famous for plenty of drivers due next to an entrance to the cheap fuel provided by dozens highway and you can either stand in front of service stations for drivers the bus stop with a sign or stand on a little traffic light island at the entrance so that you get all the traffic going to towards Trier that is coming from both directions. Get a lift at least as far as the huge petrol station on the Belgian Limburg, Dutch Limburgborder, and Aachen, etcthen it is easier to hitch further.
Option 1.Get '''The train from Luxembourg city station to Arlon. Walk left out of station, keep following the Bastogne road signs towards a roundabout which is a 20 minute walk. Here you can hitch hike at the junction after the bridge and across from the Fiat car garage. This road goes to Martelange.option'''
Option 2.Get the Trier/Wasserbillig (line 30) train from Luxembourg city City station. Get off at the Wasserbillig stop. You should turn right outside the train station , walking up the road and turning left up the Route d'Echternach until you reach a crossing beside a big river. This option takes 30 minutes but there are beautiful views to Arlonbe seen. On normal weekdays You will notice that there is a service from platform 6 an old pathway going up the hill. If you follow this route you should arrive at two old cabins. Turn left at the Arlon transport station for Martelangecabin closest to you and walk further up the hill until you reach another crossing under the massive motorway bridge. The times are Go right at 07hthis and keep climbing the hill until you reach a more developed road. Here,12h,16h,17h you turn right and 19hkeep following the access road until you reach the petrol station. This will bring you to is located at the small town which is famous for Luxembourg-German border. There should be plenty of drivers due to the cheap fuel provided by dozens of service stationsinternational traffic.
Option 3.
Get train from Luxembourg city station to Ettelbruck station. Then get bus 530 (direction perle-school) to Martelange town.
Option 4.Get bus 250 === South (direction redange-lycee atert[[Metz]], [[France]]) (E25/A3) from Luxembourg city station to Oberpallen-Breck, then bus 590 to Martelange town.===
===East towards [[Germany]], [[Poland]], etc===Get the Trier/Wasserbillig (line 30) 60 train from Luxembourg City station for around 2 Euro. Get off at the Wasserbillig Berchem stop. You have two options There are 2 exits from the station. Take the closest one, don't take the stairs. And walk less than 2 km to some of the biggest motorway petrol stations in Europe! Take the first little path to the residential area (Rue Oscar Romero), pass a local tiny roundabout and walk up towards the fields. Then you have a national one)beautiful path through the fields straight ahead. The local one is if You'll pass by generous walnut and apple trees, you turn 'll have to climb over small cattle fences, and might say hi to some animals. Otherwise: Turn leftwhen you leave the Berchem train station, walk down the local road for two 5 minutesand the second main road on the right is Rue Meckenheck. Take Meckenheck up winding through a residential area all the way up to where it ends, at which point there is a big forest. Turn right onto Du Bois, you should see and follow it curving around 7 petrol stationsto the left. Maybe somebody can bring You should hear the highway and pretty soon you to will arrive at a bridge[https://www.google.ca/maps/place/49%C2%B032'40.2%22N+6%C2%B007'18.3%22E/@49.544506,6.119553,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d49.544506!4d6.121747?hl=en] that runs over the highway. Just before the bridge is the main Wasserbillig service south-side petrol station on , with loads of cars heading north towards Luxembourg city, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Walk over the bridge and immediately at the end of it go down to the highway , through the concrete pavement or wherever elsestairs, and walk 50m alongside of it until the station. There are vehicles traveling all over Europe. You can also reach the petrol station by hitching from the roundabout that is located right at the start of the highways.
The national options involves turning right outside '''August 2023 update''': the train station, walking up the road and turning left up the Route d’Echternach until you reach a crossing beside a big riverbridge has been torn down! (It seems it is being replaced though). This option takes 30 minutes but is more effective than For now the local one. You will notice that there only alternative is an old pathway going up the hill. If you follow this route you should arrive at two old cabins. Turn left at the cabin closest to you and walk further up the hill until you reach another crossing under the massive motorway bridge. Go right at this and keep climbing the hill until you reach take a more developed road. Here, you turn right long detour through Rue de Roeser and keep following the access road until you reach path that leads to where the petrol station. This is located at northern end of the Luxembourg-German border. There should bridge used to be plenty of international traffic.
===South towards -West ([[FranceA4]], [[SpainE44]], [[ItalyE25]], etc) ===
Get the line 60 train Take bus number 18 (from Luxembourg City Central station for around 2 Euroto direction Kockelscheuer, Patinoire). Get off at from bus on the Berchem bus stop "Plantin" (few meters before this bus stop is Shell petrol station). Go straight to rond-about and walk less than 2 km then turn left. Few meters from rond-about there will be place where you can easily hitch-hikke (bus stop, rarely use). On the opposite side of this place there is Auchan Drive so it's easily to some of find.  == Hitchhiking in == Many people are driving pass Luxembourg without stopping. If your driver is using the biggest motorway petrol stations in Europe! Turn left when A6 (from or towards Arlon, Belgium) you can ask them to leave you at the Berchem train stationexit nr 4 (Luxembourg, walk down the road and then turn right at the first opportunityStrassen). You They will arrive drop you at a entrance point for two roads. Take Route d'Arlon and can take the highway right back, and you just have one furthest from long street to Luxembourg city centre (you can take a bus or use the train stationred lights to find a lift). Follow  If you're coming from France through the residential road up A31 / A3 and the hill for 10 minutes and driver will drive on pass Luxembourg city, you will arrive can be dropped at a bridgeAire de Berchem. Go over Walk pass the truck parking to the very end of the bridge and then walk down and gas station where you should 'll find an entrance way to the petrol stationsgate. There are vehicles traveling all You can climb over Europeat the edge of the bridge, by the bushes, to make sure you don't rip your pants. I was waiting for around Then it's a 10 minutes at the petrol min walk, heading southeast, to Berchem train station exit, two stations away from Luxembourg city.  == Nomadwiki & Trashwiki == {{nomadwiki}}    {{IsIn|Luxembourg}}
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