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=== North-West to [[Skopje]] ([[North Macedonia]]) ===
Option 1:Don't bother to hitch hike to the border!!! There is a are free bus busses from the city centre to the border! These buses which belong to the casinos you can find at across the border just before Gevgelija. You can find theses these buses on Tsimiski street. They are easy to recognize (the name of the casino is printed on the bus, and it is written "free shuttle"). 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 busonly useful for arriving in Skopje at night.
As of May 2024, it appears that the free shuttle no longer exists.
Option 2:Take a bus #8 (or #31?) from Egnatias street in the centre Bus to KTEL (last stop)Agios Athanasios. You can also take bus #45 which goes between From "KTEL Makedonia and KTEL Halkidiki (you want to Macedonia Bus station" lines 81A, 89B, 89K go to ''Makedonia''). Then switch to bus #81 which you can find on the upper platform. Afterwards, you can do different thingsthere. 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 nearby junction to the highway Highway A1/E75 to Skopje. However, if the bus goes into Agios Athanasios 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 the driver to make sure). Bus 81A from KTEL busstation to Agios Athanasios. Got off when it turns from the highway. From there hitched to Polykastro and another ride got me to the border. At the border asked the car in front of me for a ride, which got me to Skopje. Standing on the highway there, it was very quiet
Option 3:
Actually hitch hike. Highway EO2 effectively runs down the center of Thessaloniki to Edessas. It's a normal road (called "Monastiriou", "Egnagia" and others) up until the junction with the ring road (A2/E90). You can walk down it (going north-west) while hitch hiking. There are gas stations along it where you can hitch hike. Just past the ring road there is a stop light before the ramp where you can hitch hike. Just beyond that there is a very big shoulder where you can hitch hike. Continue following EO2 from there for 10km (in a car by now ideally) and you are at Agios Athanasios as in option 2 above. Take the exit to A1/E75 to Skopje.
=== South to [[Athens]] ===