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Get a bus to a place just outside the city named ''Tinqueux''. At least one bus (bus B) heads towards ''Tinqueux'' which will run along the ''Avenue de Paris''. At a roundabout the bus will take it's own French route - but if you're walking then at this (there's only one) roundabout take the road called ''Avenue de 29th Aout 1944''. A little way past what Google Earth points to as the exact spot of ''Tinqueux'', is a street called ''Rue Charles Boucton''. Once you get there you will discover what you are looking for.  <!--

 4/9/2010-09-04 JK added: :I'm making this addition from the McDonald's mentioned above, after several hours (over three, possibly four) trying for a lift outside the Carrefour petrol station. And in theory yes this should be a great spot for picking up a lift, but in my opinion it definitely isn't. I'm hitching to Germany and came here after reading the above recommendation PLUS having it mentioned as a possible pickup point by a potential lift (which was coming from Paris) which fell through (which I'd found on rideshare.co.uk. :Anyway, as I input this, I'm looking across the carpark of the Carrefour supermarket where about 20 trucks are parked up; these guys don't seem to be stopping just for lunch or a piss break, more like for the day or even the weekend (today is Saturday) - so it could easily be tomorrow or the day after before any of them come good for a lift, and I ain't waiting that long.:The main problem here in my opinion is that cars and trucks exiting from the supermarket/petrol station/retail estate come onto the same piece of dual carriageway which leads up to the slip road turning right for the A4 for eastern France and Germany beyond. :This slip road turns through a tight arc with very little forward visibility. :This means from the exit of the petrol station and truck stop to the A4 there's nowhere for any vehicles to stop with reasonable safety - anyone stopping here to pick up a hitchhiker is running serious risk of being shunted from behind, which is why I would avoid this spot and find somewhere else. :But having talked to a few locals it seems there is no obvious other place in the locality to head for. :This view would seem to be confirmed by the fact that after several hours working hard for a lift I saw no other hitchers '''at all'''AT ALL, and only three cars with German registration plates, not a great tally for anyone hoping to make it to Germany before nightfall. :And as for Chinese registration plates, fuggeddabboutit.